Cavity-nest boxes for solitary bees: a century of design and research

Use of human-made nesting structures by wild bees in an urban environment

(2016) Laura Fortel et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Functional homogenization of flower visitor communities with urbanization

(2016) Nicolas Deguines et al.   Ecology and Evolution

DNA barcoding to identify leaf preference of leafcutting bees

(2016) J. Scott MacIvor   Royal Society Open Science

Diversity patterns of wild bees and wasps in managed boreal forests: Effects of spatial structure, local habitat and surrounding landscape

(2015) Diana Rubene et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Utilization of Waste Materials for Management of Alfalfa Pollinating Megachilid Bees

(2015) Dharam Pal Abrol et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA GENERALIS

Building height matters: nesting activity of bees and wasps on vegetated roofs

(2015) J. Scott MacIvor   Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution

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

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

‘Bee Hotels’ as Tools for Native Pollinator Conservation: A Premature Verdict?

(2015) J. Scott MacIvor et al.   PLoS One

Landscape composition and configuration differently affect trap-nesting bees, wasps and their antagonists

(2014) Juliane Steckel et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

An artificial nesting substrate forOsmiaspecies that nest under stones, with focus onOsmia inermis(Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

(2014) Cory S. Sheffield et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Influence of Nest Box Color and Release Sites on Osmia lignaria (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) Reproductive Success in a Commercial Almond Orchard

(2014) Derek R. Artz et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Spillover of trap-nesting bees and wasps in an urban–rural interface

(2014) Maria Helena Pereira-Peixoto et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Communities of Social Bees (Apidae: Meliponini) in Trap-Nests: the Spatial Dynamics of Reproduction in an Area of Atlantic Forest

(2014) M D Silva et al.   NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY

A Unique Nest-Protection Strategy in a New Species of Spider Wasp

(2014) Michael Staab et al.   PLoS One

Plant diversity in a nutshell: testing for small-scale effects on trap nesting wild bees and wasps

(2014) Yvonne Fabian et al.   Ecosphere

Sublethal neonicotinoid insecticide exposure reduces solitary bee reproductive success

(2013) Christoph Sandrock et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY

Estimating crop pollinator population using mark–recapture method

(2013) Marcela Yamamoto et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Towards a sustainable management of bees of the subgenus Osmia (Megachilidae; Osmia) as fruit tree pollinators

(2013) Claudio Sedivy et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Comparison of two Mediterranean crop systems: Polycrop favours trap-nesting solitary bees over monocrop

(2013) Laura Baños-Picón et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Bee diversity effects on pollination depend on functional complementarity and niche shifts

(2013) Jochen Fründ et al.   ECOLOGY

Influence of Winter Temperature and Simulated Climate Change on Body Mass and Fat Body Depletion During Diapause in Adults of the Solitary Bee, Osmia rufa (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

(2013) Monika Fliszkiewicz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Mass-flowering crops increase richness of cavity-nesting bees and wasps in modern agro-ecosystems

(2013) Tim Diekötter et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

The importance of landscape and spatial structure for hymenopteran-based food webs in an agro-ecosystem

(2013) Yvonne Fabian et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Pollen mixing in pollen generalist solitary bees: a possible strategy to complement or mitigate unfavourable pollen properties?

(2013) Michael Eckhardt et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Supersedure of Isodontia mexicana (Saussure) (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) Nests by Megachile rotundata (F.) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): Do Bees Destroy Wasp Cocoons?

(2013) Casey M. Delphia et al.   JOURNAL OF THE KANSAS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Cavity-Nesting Wasps and Bees (Hymenoptera) of Central New York State: The Roy H. Park Preserve and Dorothy Mcilroy Bird Sanctuary

(2013) Kevin M. O'Neill et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

Pollen specialization by solitary bees in an urban landscape

(2013) J. S. MacIvor et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Niche partitioning based on nest site selection in the small carpenter bees Ceratina mikmaqi and C. calcarata

(2012) J.L. Vickruck et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The Use of Trap-Nests to Manage Carpenter Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Xylocopini), Pollinators of Passion Fruit (Passifloraceae: Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa)

(2012) C. N. Junqueira et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

Introducing nests of the oil-collecting bee Centris analis (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Centridini) for pollination of acerola (Malpighia emarginata) increases yield

(2012) Celso B. Magalhães et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Influence of the Orientation of Nest Entrance, Shading, and Substrate on Sampling Trap-Nesting Bees and Wasps

(2012) C F Martins et al.   NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY

A new species of Fauveliopsidae (Annelida) from the North Sea

(2012) Anna Zhadan et al.   ZooKeys

Effects of constant and fluctuating temperatures on the development of the solitary bee Osmia bicornis (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

(2011) Sabine Radmacher et al.   APIDOLOGIE

On managing the red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) in apple orchards

(2011) Bernd Gruber et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Nectar and pollen sugars constituting larval provisions of the alfalfa leaf-cutting bee (Megachile rotundata) (Hymenoptera: Apiformes: Megachilidae)

(2011) James H. Cane et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Landscape elements as potential barriers and corridors for bees, wasps and parasitoids

(2011) Kristin M. Krewenka et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Bee diversity in naturalizing patches of Carolinian grasslands in southern Ontario, Canada

(2011) M.H. Richards et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

An examination of synchrony between insect emergence and flowering in Rocky Mountain meadows

(2011) Jessica R. K. Forrest et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Monitoring of tube-nesting bees and wasps with bamboo tube nest traps of different types in two types of forests in temperate Japan

(2011) Kazuma MATSUMOTO et al.   ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE

Effect of Temperature on Post-Wintering Development and Total Lipid Content of Alfalfa Leafcutting Bees

(2011) Kevin M. O'Neill et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Closely related pollen generalist bees differ in their ability to develop on the same pollen diet: evidence for physiological adaptations to digest pollen

(2011) Claudio Sedivy et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Abundance and diversity of wild bees along gradients of heavy metal pollution

(2011) Dawid Moroń et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Microsite conditions dominate habitat selection of the red mason bee (Osmia bicornis, Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in an urban environment: A case study from Leipzig, Germany

(2011) Jeroen Everaars et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Multitrophic effects of experimental changes in plant diversity on cavity-nesting bees, wasps, and their parasitoids

(2011) Anne Ebeling et al.   OECOLOGIA

Offspring Size and Sex Ratio Variation in a Feral Population of Alfalfa Leafcutting Bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

(2010) Kevin M. O'Neill et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

The Alfalfa Leafcutting Bee,Megachile rotundata: The World's Most Intensively Managed Solitary Bee

(2010) Theresa L. Pitts-Singer et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Are landscape structures insurmountable barriers for foraging bees? A mark-recapture study with two solitary pollen specialist species

(2010) Antonia Zurbuchen et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Maximum foraging ranges in solitary bees: only few individuals have the capability to cover long foraging distances

(2010) Antonia Zurbuchen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Multiple mechanisms underlie displacement of solitary Hawaiian Hymenoptera by an invasive social wasp

(2010) E. E. Wilson et al.   ECOLOGY

Deforestation homogenizes tropical parasitoid–host networks

(2010) Etienne Laliberté et al.   ECOLOGY

Rareness and specialization in plant–pollinator networks

(2010) Jimena Dorado et al.   ECOLOGY

Description, Comparison and Identification of Nests of Cavity-Nesting Centris Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Centridini) in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica

(2010) S. Bradleigh Vinson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE KANSAS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Cavity-Nesting Wasps and Bees of Central New York State: The Montezuma Wetlands Complex

(2010) Kevin M. O'Neill et al.   NORTHEASTERN NATURALIST

Differential effects of habitat isolation and landscape composition on wasps, bees, and their enemies

(2010) Christof Schüepp et al.   OECOLOGIA

Factors affecting offspring body size in the solitary beeOsmia bicornis(Hymenoptera, Megachilidae)

(2009) Sabine Radmacher et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Bee conservation policy at the global, regional and national levels

(2009) Andrew Byrne et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Conditional sex allocation in the Red Mason bee, Osmia rufa

(2009) Karsten Seidelmann et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Invasive Africanized honey bee impact on native solitary bees: a pollen resource and trap nest analysis

(2009) DAVID W. ROUBIK et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Potential of bigleaf lupine for building and sustaining Osmia lignaria populations for pollination of apple

(2009) Cory S. Sheffield et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Diversity of cavity-nesting bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) within apple orchards and wild habitats in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, Canada

(2009) Cory S. Sheffield et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Alpha and beta diversity of plants and animals along a tropical land-use gradient

(2009) Michael Kessler et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Grass strip corridors in agricultural landscapes enhance nest-site colonization by solitary wasps

(2009) Andrea Holzschuh et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Nectar Sugar Limits Larval Growth of Solitary Bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae)

(2009) Laura Burkle et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Canopy vs. understory: Does tree diversity affect bee and wasp communities and their natural enemies across forest strata?

(2009) Stephanie Sobek et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Trap-nesting bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in forest fragments of the State of São Paulo, Brazil

(2009) A.L. Gazola et al.   GENETICS AND MOLECULAR RESEARCH

Natural enemy diversity reduces temporal variability in wasp but not bee parasitism

(2009) Dorthe Veddeler et al.   OECOLOGIA

DO RESOURCES OR NATURAL ENEMIES DRIVE BEE POPULATION DYNAMICS IN FRAGMENTED HABITATS

(2008) Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter et al.   ECOLOGY

Potential Effects of Oilseed Rape Expressing Oryzacystatin-1 (OC-1) and of Purified Insecticidal Proteins on Larvae of the Solitary Bee Osmia bicornis

(2008) Roger Konrad et al.   PLoS One

Diversity of wild bees in wet meadows: Implications for conservation

(2008) Dawid Moroń et al.   WETLANDS

Habitat structure components are effective predictors of trap-nesting Hymenoptera diversity

(2007) Rafael D. Loyola et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY