The best wildflowers for wild bees

Flower-strip agri-environment schemes provide diverse and valuable summer flower resources for pollinating insects

(2018) Pierre Ouvrard et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Selecting cost-effective plant mixes to support pollinators

(2018) Neal M. Williams et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Flower preferences and pollen transport networks for cavity-nesting solitary bees: Implications for the design of agri-environment schemes

(2018) Catherine E. A. Gresty et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Rapid rise in toxic load for bees revealed by analysis of pesticide use in Great Britain

(2018) Dave Goulson et al.   PeerJ

Attractiveness of wildflower mixtures for wild bees and hoverflies depends on some key plant species

(2017) Daniela Warzecha et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Enhancing plant diversity in agricultural landscapes promotes both rare bees and dominant crop-pollinating bees through complementary increase in key floral resources

(2017) Louis Sutter et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas

(2017) Caspar A. Hallmann et al.   PLoS One

Much more than bees—Wildflower plantings support highly diverse flower-visitor communities from complex to structurally simple agricultural landscapes

(2016) Ingo Grass et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Weed-insect pollinator networks as bio-indicators of ecological sustainability in agriculture. A review

(2016) Orianne Rollin et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Providing foraging resources for solitary bees on farmland: current schemes for pollinators benefit a limited suite of species

(2016) Thomas J. Wood et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Food for Pollinators: Quantifying the Nectar and Pollen Resources of Urban Flower Meadows

(2016) Damien M. Hicks et al.   PLoS One

Pollinator-friendly management does not increase the diversity of farmland bees and wasps

(2015) Thomas J. Wood et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

How much flower-rich habitat is enough for wild pollinators? Answering a key policy question with incomplete knowledge

(2015) LYNN V. DICKS et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Influences of extreme weather, climate and pesticide use on invertebrates in cereal fields over 42 years

(2015) Julie A. Ewald et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Local and landscape-level floral resources explain effects of wildflower strips on wild bees across four European countries

(2015) Jeroen Scheper et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Targeted agri-environment schemes significantly improve the population size of common farmland bumblebee species

(2015) Thomas J. Wood et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2015) D. Goulson et al.   SCIENCE

Managed Bumblebees Outperform Honeybees in Increasing Peach Fruit Set in China: Different Limiting Processes with Different Pollinators

(2015) Hong Zhang et al.   PLoS One

Augmenting flower trait diversity in wildflower strips to optimise the conservation of arthropod functional groups for multiple agroecosystem services

(2014) Mario V. Balzan et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

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

(2014) J. Ollerton et al.   SCIENCE

Crop flower visitation by honeybees, bumblebees and solitary bees: Behavioural differences and diversity responses to landscape

(2013) B.A. Woodcock et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Pollination services in the UK: How important are honeybees?

(2011) T.D. Breeze et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

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

(2011) Bernd Gruber et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Impacts of a pesticide on pollinator species richness at different spatial scales

(2010) C.A. Brittain et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Pollination biology of fruit-bearing hedgerow plants and the role of flower-visiting insects in fruit-set

(2009) Jennifer H. Jacobs et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Diet breadth, coexistence and rarity in bumblebees

(2008) Dave Goulson et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Breeding system, pollinator choice and variation in pollen quality in British herbaceous plants

(2008) M. E. Hanley et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Functional group diversity of bee pollinators increases crop yield

(2008) P. Hoehn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES