BEESBEE coloniesMICROORGANISMSBACTERIAL communitiesMICROBIAL communitiesWOLBACHIAWe characterized the microbial communities of the crop, midgut, hindgut, and ovaries of the wild solitary bees Andrena vaga, Anthophora plumipes, Colletes cunicularius, and Osmia cornuta through 16S rRNA gene and ITS2 amplicon...
(2) Can we predict pollen specialist and generalist bees from flower visitation data? And (3) what variables are most important for predicting specialist and generalist bees: phylogenetic-, phenological- or geographic variables? Methods Authoritative diet breadth datasets To predict pollen specialist ...
I study primarily native wild bees. Here in North America, we havebetween 4,000 and 5,000 species. For many species, we don’t know if they’re declining. Of the ones that we do have some information on, it’s estimated that about half are declining and about a quarter are imperiled...
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In fact, bumble bees and solitary bees may be more severely affected by reduced floral diversity than the highly social bees (i.e. honeybees and stingless bees) which typically store floral resources over prolonged periods26,27 and may thus better survive resource shortages. However, for the ...
Visitation rate drops more steeply in tropical compared with temperate regions, and slightly more steeply for social compared with solitary bees. Tropical crops pollinated primarily by social bees may therefore be most susceptible to pollination failure from habitat loss. Quantifying these general ...
Unlike domesticated, managed honey bees that nest in human-made hives, most wild bees are solitary (they don’t nest in a colony) and need appropriate nesting sites in our gardens and landscapes. The majority of wild bees nest in the ground; the minority are cavity nesters. ...
the existing soil is full of rich leaf matter and bark composted naturally over many years. The zucchini plants are nestled harmoniously alongside many of the native ground cover plants that live there, producing it’s bright yellow flowers to attract the bees needed to pollinate all the plants...
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of which 16.0% of a total of 405 from Tanzania were honeybees, and 13.6% of a total of 59 from Malawi were honeybees, with most being various solitary species. The most common guild of potential natural enemy found in the traps was “wasps” (including both aculeate and parasitoid species...