Benchmark studies of insect populations are increasingly relevant and needed amid
accelerating concern about insect trends in the Anthropocene. The growing recognition that …

Highlights•Over 80 different species of bees have been introduced around the world.•Non-
native bees range from solitary to social, and managed to unmanaged.•There exists a …

The acute decline in global biodiversity includes not only the loss of rare species, but also
the rapid collapse of common species across many different taxa. The loss of pollinating …

Wild and managed bees are key pollinators, ensuring or enhancing the reproduction of a
large fraction of the world's wild flowering plants and the yield of∼ 85% of all cultivated …

Pollinators are undergoing a global decline. Although vital to pollinator conservation and
ecological research, species-level identification is expensive, time consuming, and requires …

The concept of citizen science, which engages the eyes and ears of volunteers to observe,
record, and share information about the environment, is not new. Its origins go back …

Native bee species in the United States provide invaluable pollination services. Concerns
about native bee declines are growing, and there are calls for a national monitoring …

Wild bees form diverse communities that pollinate plants in both native and agricultural
ecosystems making them both ecologically and economically important. The growing …

Despite growing concerns about pollinator declines, 1, 2, 3, 4 evidence that this is a
widespread problem affecting entire communities remains limited. 5 There is a particular …

Despite widespread recognition of the need for long‐term monitoring of pollinator
abundances and pollination service provision, such studies are exceedingly rare. In this …