The use and prospects of nonlethal methods in entomology

GL Lövei, M Ferrante - Annual Review of Entomology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Arthropods are declining globally, and entomologists ought to be in the forefront of
protecting them. However, entomological study methods are typically lethal, and we argue …

Bees in the city: Findings from a scoping review and recommendations for urban planning

R Remmers, N Frantzeskaki - Ambio, 2024 - Springer
Over the last decades, bee biodiversity has dropped sharply due to land use change,
including urbanization. To contrast this, recent research has pointed to cities as a hotspot for …

Occupancy of Bombus affinis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Minnesota is highest in developed areas when standardized surveys are employed

ML Boone, ZM Portman, I Lane… - Environmental …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Mounting evidence of bumble bee declines and the listing of the rusty patched bumble bee
(Bombus affinis Cresson) as federally endangered in the United States in 2017 and Canada …

Honey bees and bumble bees occupying the same landscape have distinct gut microbiomes and amplicon sequence variant-level responses to infections

N Amiri, MM Keady, HC Lim - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
The gut microbiome of bees is vital for the health of their hosts. Given the ecosystem
functions performed by bees, and the declines faced by many species, it is important to …

Parasite prevalence may drive the biotic impoverishment of New England (USA) bumble bee communities

AL Averill, AV Couto, JC Andersen, JS Elkinton - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Here we discuss widespread changes in the community structure of
bumble bees (Bombus spp.) found in the coastal-zone community of New England. One …

Morphological Variation in Bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) (Hymenoptera: Apidae) After Three Decades of an Island Invasion

C Kardum Hjort, HG Smith, AP Allen… - Journal of Insect …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Introduced social insects can be highly invasive outside of their native range. Around the
world, the introduction and establishment of the eusocial bumblebee Bombus terrestris (L …

Factors driving bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus) and butterfly (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) use of sheared shrubland and young forest communities of the …

EC Keele, DJ McNeil, JE Duchamp… - Environmental …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract In the northern Great Lakes region, the creation and maintenance of early-
successional woody communities as wildlife habitat have increasingly become a …

Bumble bee banquet: Genus‐ and species‐level floral selection by Midwestern Bombus

J Lanterman Novotny, A Lybbert, P Reeher… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Regionally specific flower preference data are needed to optimize conservation habitat
plantings for at‐risk pollinators such as bumble bees (Bombus spp.). Current tools for …

Comparing species richness and abundance of bumble bees between urban and natural areas using a photographic survey approach

J MacLeod, M Silva-Opps, J Sanchez - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Bumble bees are essential pollinators that provide critical ecosystem services yet, studies
are documenting global species declines while recognizing those declines may be …

[PDF][PDF] Bumble bee (Bombus) species distribution, phenology, and diet in North Dakota

CK Pei, TJ Hovick, RF Limb, JP Harmon… - Prairie Naturalist …, 2022 - researchgate.net
A growing number of bumble bee species are under review and proposal for federal
protection in North America. However, many regions are underrepresented in population …