We describe foraging preferences and land cover associations of wild bees in southeast Australia to ask: Do perennial woody crops support bees that nest in wood or stems (above ground-nesting bees), while pasture supports soil-nesting (below ground-nesting) bees? We sampled bee communities using...
The heathlands of South-east Queensland, Australia, are plant communities that have adapted to survive in the Bee species and flowering plant genera in the heathland In total we collected 2772 bees belonging to 4 families (Apidae, Halictidae, Megachilidae, Colletidae) and 13 genera (Table 1)....
Insect pollinators have been relocated by humans for millennia and are, thus, among the world’s earliest intentional exotic introductions. The introduction of managed bees for crop pollination services remains, to this day, a common and growing practice worldwide and the number of different bee s...
The animal most closely associated with China, thegiant panda, is also its official national animal. Native to south-central China, the giant panda is a folivore, meaning that it subsists almost exclusively on leaves. Nearly 99% of the giant panda’s diet consists of bamboo shoots and leaves...
Non-native bees species reduced the availability of nectar and pollen for native bee species that are more effective pollinators for C. quamash (Page and Williams 2023). Non‑native vertebrates As mentioned previously, the introduction of vertebrates, specifically ungulates, to the Hawaiian Islands...
Are honey bees native to North America? Are buffalo native to Australia? Is the Amazon rainforest in North America? Is the bald eagle native to North America? Are banyan trees native to Hawaii? Are cats native to North America? Is a bison a herbivore?
robins and thrushes. Bears also eat the fruit. The shrub provides good cover and nesting sites for gamebirds, rabbits, and other small animals. Pocket gophers burrow underneath it. The pink flowers attract hummingbirds, but are mostly pollinated by bees. The leaves are eaten by the Sphinx...
Are high-risk groups of organisms of key importance covered taxonomically (see Reaser et al.2019b, this issue)? 3. Where will expertise and supply of identification technologies (see Martinez et al.2019, this issue) come from in 5 years’ time? (Taxonomists take time to train and recruit...
The researchers suggested that the United States may have imported the disorder in bees from Australia. They say the bees may carry the virus but not be affected. The idea is that unlike many American bees, the ability of Australian bees to fight disease has not been hurt by the varroa mit...
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