Bumble bee (Bombus) distribution and diversity in Vermont, USA: a century of change

The interplay of climate and land use change affects the distribution of EU bumblebees

(2017) Leon Marshall et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

New records of an invasive bumble bee in northern Chile: expansion of its range or new introduction events?

(2017) José Montalva et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

High Elevation Refugia forBombus terricola(Hymenoptera: Apidae) Conservation and Wild Bees of the White Mountain National Forest

(2017) Erika M. Tucker et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT SCIENCE

Synergistic interactions between a variety of insecticides and an ergosterol biosynthesis inhibitor fungicide in dietary exposures of bumble bees (Bombus terrestris L.)

(2017) Risto Raimets et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Global decline of bumblebees is phylogenetically structured and inversely related to species range size and pathogen incidence

(2017) Marina P. Arbetman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Landscape predictors of pathogen prevalence and range contractions in US bumblebees

(2017) Scott H. McArt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Words alone will not protect pollinators

(2017) David Inouye et al.   SCIENCE

Utilization of photographs taken by citizens for estimating bumblebee distributions

(2017) Yukari Suzuki-Ohno et al.   Scientific Reports

Roads may act as barriers to flying insects: species composition of bees and wasps differs on two sides of a large highway

(2017) Petter Andersson et al.   Nature Conservation-Bulgaria

Natural land cover drives pollinator abundance and richness, leading to reductions in pollen limitation in cotton agroecosystems

(2016) Sarah Cusser et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Emerging problems of data quality in citizen science

(2016) Roman Lukyanenko et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Bumble bee species exhibit divergent responses to urbanisation in a Southern California landscape

(2016) AMANDA B. SCHOCHET et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Local bumble bee decline linked to recovery of honey bees, drought effects on floral resources

(2016) Diane M. Thomson   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Widespread contamination of wildflower and bee-collected pollen with complex mixtures of neonicotinoids and fungicides commonly applied to crops

(2016) Arthur David et al.   ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL

Quality of citizen science data and its consequences for the conservation of skipper butterflies (Hesperiidae) in Flanders (northern Belgium)

(2016) Pieter Vantieghem et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

An expert-assisted citizen science program involving agricultural high schools provides national patterns on bee species assemblages

(2016) Violette Le Féon et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Biogeography and designatable units of Bombus occidentalis Greene and B. terricola Kirby (Hymenoptera: Apidae) with implications for conservation status assessments

(2016) Cory S. Sheffield et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Wild bee pollination networks in northern New England

(2016) Erika M. Tucker et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Status, Threats and Conservation Recommendations for Wild Bumble Bees (Bombusspp.) in Ontario, Canada: A Review for Policymakers and Practitioners

(2016) Sheila R. Colla   NATURAL AREAS JOURNAL

Specialist Bees of the Northeast: Host Plants and Habitat Conservation

(2016) Jarrod Fowler   NORTHEASTERN NATURALIST

Synergistic mortality between a neonicotinoid insecticide and an ergosterol-biosynthesis-inhibiting fungicide in three bee species

(2016) Fabio Sgolastra et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Test of the invasive pathogen hypothesis of bumble bee decline in North America

(2016) Sydney A. Cameron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

iNEXT: an R package for rarefaction and extrapolation of species diversity (Hill numbers)

(2016) T. C. Hsieh et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Do managed bees drive parasite spread and emergence in wild bees?

(2016) Peter Graystock et al.   International Journal for Parasitology-Parasites and Wildlife

Species identification by experts and non-experts: comparing images from field guides

(2016) G. E. Austen et al.   Scientific Reports

Landscape simplification decreases wild bee pollination services to strawberry

(2015) Heather Connelly et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Bumble bee nest abundance, foraging distance, and host-plant reproduction: implications for management and conservation

(2015) Jennifer C. Geib et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Large-Scale Deployment of Seed Treatments Has Driven Rapid Increase in Use of Neonicotinoid Insecticides and Preemptive Pest Management in U.S. Field Crops

(2015) Margaret R. Douglas et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Neonicotinoid pesticide exposure impairs crop pollination services provided by bumblebees

(2015) Dara A. Stanley et al.   NATURE

Parasites in bloom: flowers aid dispersal and transmission of pollinator parasites within and between bee species

(2015) Peter Graystock et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Functional mismatch in a bumble bee pollination mutualism under climate change

(2015) N. E. Miller-Struttmann et al.   SCIENCE

Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers

(2015) D. Goulson et al.   SCIENCE

Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents

(2015) J. T. Kerr et al.   SCIENCE

Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation

(2015) David Kleijn et al.   Nature Communications

The effect of repeated, lethal sampling on wild bee abundance and diversity

(2015) Zachariah J. Gezon et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Effects of Suburbanization on Forest Bee Communities

(2014) Adrian L. Carper et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Ecoregions of the Conterminous United States: Evolution of a Hierarchical Spatial Framework

(2014) James M. Omernik et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Please don't misuse the museum: ‘declines’ may be statistical

(2014) Evan H. Campbell Grant   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pollinator assemblages on dandelions and white clover in urban and suburban lawns

(2014) Jonathan L. Larson et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Avoiding (Re)extinction

(2014) B. A. Minteer et al.   SCIENCE

Extinctions of aculeate pollinators in Britain and the role of large-scale agricultural changes

(2014) J. Ollerton et al.   SCIENCE

The Bumblebees Scarcity Syndrome: Are heat waves leading to local extinctions of bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae:Bombus)?

(2013) Pierre Rasmont et al.   ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

Pathogen prevalence in commercially reared bumble bees and evidence of spillover in conspecific populations

(2013) Tomás E. Murray et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Rarefaction and extrapolation with Hill numbers: a framework for sampling and estimation in species diversity studies

(2013) Anne Chao et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Early onset of spring increases the phenological mismatch between plants and pollinators

(2013) Gaku Kudo et al.   ECOLOGY

The invasion of southern South America by imported bumblebees and associated parasites

(2013) Regula Schmid-Hempel et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The Trojan hives: pollinator pathogens, imported and distributed in bumblebee colonies

(2013) Peter Graystock et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Historical changes in northeastern US bee pollinators related to shared ecological traits

(2013) I. Bartomeus et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

(2013) L. A. Garibaldi et al.   SCIENCE

Assessing declines of North American bumble bees (Bombus spp.) using museum specimens

(2012) Sheila R. Colla et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Alien parasite hitchhikes to Patagonia on invasive bumblebee

(2012) Marina P. Arbetman et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Detecting Insect Pollinator Declines on Regional and Global Scales

(2012) Gretchen Lebuhn et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Neonicotinoids in bees: a review on concentrations, side-effects and risk assessment

(2012) Tjeerd Blacquière et al.   ECOTOXICOLOGY

The current state of citizen science as a tool for ecological research and public engagement

(2012) Janis L Dickinson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Resource diversity and landscape-level homogeneity drive native bee foraging

(2012) S. Jha et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Neonicotinoid Pesticide Reduces Bumble Bee Colony Growth and Queen Production

(2012) P. R. Whitehorn et al.   SCIENCE

Do pathogen spillover, pesticide use, or habitat loss explain recent North American bumblebee declines?

(2012) Nora D. Szabo et al.   Conservation Letters

Landscape-scale resources promote colony growth but not reproductive performance of bumble bees

(2011) Neal M. Williams et al.   ECOLOGY

Using citizen science to monitor Bombus populations in the UK: nesting ecology and relative abundance in the urban environment

(2011) Gillian C. Lye et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

How many flowering plants are pollinated by animals?

(2011) Jeff Ollerton et al.   OIKOS

Quantitative Historical Change in Bumblebee (Bombus spp.) Assemblages of Red Clover Fields

(2011) Yoko L. Dupont et al.   PLoS One

Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees

(2011) S. A. Cameron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Drastic historic shifts in bumble-bee community composition in Sweden

(2011) R. Bommarco et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Citizen Science as an Ecological Research Tool: Challenges and Benefits

(2010) Janis L. Dickinson et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Centuries-old logging legacy on spatial and temporal patterns in understory herb communities

(2010) Julie L. Wyatt et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Discussion of the presence of an eastern bumble bee species (Bombus impatiens Cresson) in western Canada

(2010) Claudia M. Ratti et al.   PAN-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGIST

Bumblebee vulnerability and conservation world-wide

(2009) Paul H. Williams et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Bumblebee Vulnerability: Common Correlates of Winners and Losers across Three Continents

(2009) PAUL WILLIAMS et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

A meta-analysis of bees' responses to anthropogenic disturbance

(2009) Rachael Winfree et al.   ECOLOGY

Bee Richness and Abundance in New York City Urban Gardens

(2008) Kevin C. Matteson et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Evidence for decline in eastern North American bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with special focus on Bombus affinis Cresson

(2008) Sheila R. Colla et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Decline of bumble bees (Bombus) in the North American Midwest

(2008) Jennifer C. Grixti et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Citizen Science: Can Volunteers Do Real Research?

(2008) Jeffrey P. Cohn   BIOSCIENCE

Bumblebee flight distances in relation to the forage landscape

(2007) Juliet L. Osborne et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY