Season and landscape composition affect pollen foraging distances and habitat use of honey bees

N Danner, AM Molitor, S Schiele, S Härtel… - Ecological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… of pollen resources for honey bee colonies, and thus foraging distances and frequency in
different habitat types. We studied pollen foraging of honey bee colonies in 16 agricultural …

Complementary habitat use by wild bees in agro‐natural landscapes

Y Mandelik, R Winfree, T Neeson… - Ecological …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
habitat use as the use of different habitats at … habitat use is a mechanism through which
native bee species persist in human-altered landscapes. To test this idea, we studied wild bee

Land-use change reduces habitat suitability for supporting managed honey bee colonies in the Northern Great Plains

CRV Otto, CL Roth, BL Carlson… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
… Although past research has shown land-use changes occurring in portions of the … -use
changes from the perspective of the honey bee-keeping industry. Specifically, we used land-use

Differences of floral resource use between honey bees and wild bees in an intensive farming system

O Rollin, V Bretagnolle, A Decourtye, J Aptel… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2013 - Elsevier
… Wild bees were also much rarer than honey bees in mass-flowering crops. The differential
pattern of habitat use between wild bees and honey bees appeared particularly contrasted …

Noncrop habitat use by wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in a mixed-use agricultural landscape

B Du Clos, FA Drummond… - Environmental …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… However, wild bee species supplement honey bee pollination services and are often
more efficient pollinators (Garibaldi et al. 2013). Honey bee hives are typically placed within …

Profiling crop pollinators: life history traits predict habitat use and crop visitation by Mediterranean wild bees

G Pisanty, Y Mandelik - Ecological Applications, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
… and honey production, but wild and feral honey bees are absent due to Varroa mites. …
drip-irrigated, while use of irrigation in watermelon fields varies. Honey bee hives for pollination are …

Wild, native bees and managed honey bees benefit from similar agricultural land uses

E Evans, M Smart, D Cariveau, M Spivak - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2018 - Elsevier
… We examined land use surrounding each wild bee survey location at scales of 1500m, 700m…
wild bee communities and managed honey bee colonies to land use indicates that habitat

Foraging of honey bees in agricultural landscapes with changing patterns of flower resources

S Bänsch, T Tscharntke, FLW Ratnieks, S Härtel… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2020 - Elsevier
… to identify the habitat preferences and pollen use of honey bees in … rape (OSR), semi-natural
habitats (SNH) and apple trees in … To identify the preferred land use types of honey bees, we …

How habitat affects the benefits of communication in collectively foraging honey bees

MC Donaldson-Matasci, A Dornhaus - Behavioral Ecology and …, 2012 - Springer
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) use the dance language to symbolically … habitats do honey
bee colonies actually benefit from the dance language, and what is it about those habitats that …

The worldwide importance of honey bees as pollinators in natural habitats

KLJ Hung, JM Kingston, M Albrecht… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… The western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is the most frequent floral visitor of crops worldwide,
… a pollinator outside of managed habitats is largely lacking. Here we use a global dataset of …