Insects play a key role in the regulation and dynamics of many ecosystem services (ES).
However, this role is often assumed, with limited or no experimental quantification of its real …

Beneficial arthropods provide many important ecosystem services. In agroecosystems,
pollination and control of crop pests provide benefits worth billions of dollars annually …

Bees are important pollinators of numerous crops, and monitoring their abundance and
diversity in commercial agricultural ecosystems is of increasing importance due to pollinator …

Many pollinator populations are experiencing declines, emphasizing the need for a better
understanding of the complex relationship between bees and flowering plants. Using DNA …

Bee species diversity and the effectiveness of four sampling methods were investigated in a
west-central Illinois restored tallgrass prairie. Bees were sampled using malaise traps …

During bloom of spring orchard crops, bees are the primary providers of pollination service.
Monitoring these insects for research projects is often done by timed observations or by …

Restoration efforts often focus on plants, but additionally require the establishment and long‐
term persistence of diverse groups of nontarget organisms, such as bees, for important …

A review of current capture and collection techniques for bees is presented. Information
regarding primary collection techniques (ie netting, malaise traps, bowl traps, trap nests …

Recent global declines of pollinator populations have highlighted the importance of
pollinators, which are undervalued despite essential contributions to ecosystem services. To …

Rangelands are significant providers of ecosystem services in agroecosystems world‐wide.
Yet few studies have investigated how different intensities of livestock grazing impact one …