Lasioglossum bees – the forgotten pollinators

Bees and crops in Spain: an update for melon, watermelon and almond

(2021) Sara Rodrigo Gómez et al.   ANNALES DE LA SOCIETE ENTOMOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE

Population decline in a ground-nesting solitary squash bee (Eucera pruinosa) following exposure to a neonicotinoid insecticide treated crop (Cucurbita pepo)

(2021) D. Susan Willis Chan et al.   Scientific Reports

The Pollination and Fruit Quality of Two Kiwifruit Cultivars (Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis ‘AU Golden Sunshine’ and ‘AU Gulf Coast Gold’) (Ericales: Actinidiaceae) Grown in the Southeastern United States

(2021) Anthony P Abbate et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Small numbers of bee and non-bee pollinators detected moving between on-farm native plantings and neighbouring grass cropland

(2021) F.G. Schmidlin et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIA-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGY

Worldwide importance of insect pollination in apple orchards: A review

(2020) Adara Pardo et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Native Pollinators (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) in Cotton Grown in the Gulf South, United States

(2020) Katherine A. Parys et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Foraging distances in six species of solitary bees with body lengths of 6 to 15 mm, inferred from individual tagging, suggest 150 m-rule-of-thumb for flower strip distances

(2020) Michaela M. Hofmann et al.   JOURNAL OF HYMENOPTERA RESEARCH

Crop production in the USA is frequently limited by a lack of pollinators

(2020) J. R. Reilly et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Phenology of a bee (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) community over a 10 year period in south‐eastern Australia

(2020) Michael J Neave et al.   Austral Entomology

Field margin floral enhancements increase pollinator diversity at the field edge but show no consistent spillover into the crop field: a meta‐analysis

(2020) Jorge Zamorano et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Nesting habitat of ground‐nesting bees: a review

(2020) Cécile M. Antoine et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Larger pollinators deposit more pollen on stigmas across multiple plant species—A meta‐analysis

(2020) Rita Földesi et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Pollen diets and niche overlap of honey bees and native bees in protected areas

(2020) Brittany Elliott et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

Pollinator size and its consequences: Robust estimates of body size in pollinating insects

(2019) Liam K. Kendall et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Impacts of honeybee density on crop yield: A meta-analysis

(2019) Orianne Rollin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Contribution of bees and other pollinators to watermelon (Citrullus lanatus Thunb.) pollination

(2019) Joshua W. Campbell et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Netted crop covers reduce honeybee foraging activity and colony strength in a mass flowering crop

(2019) Lisa J. Evans et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Methods for rearing ground-nesting bees under laboratory conditions

(2019) Ryan J. Leonard et al.   APIDOLOGIE

How much do rare and crop‐pollinating bees overlap in identity and flower preferences?

(2019) Molly MacLeod et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Honey bee and native solitary bee foraging behavior in a crop with dimorphic parental lines

(2019) María Cecilia Estravis Barcala et al.   PLoS One

Assessment of risk to hoary squash bees (Peponapis pruinosa) and other ground-nesting bees from systemic insecticides in agricultural soil

(2019) D. Susan Willis Chan et al.   Scientific Reports

Selecting cost-effective plant mixes to support pollinators

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

Bombus terrestris: a more efficient but less effective pollinator than Apis mellifera across surveyed white clover seed fields

(2018) Brad G. Howlett et al.   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF CROP AND HORTICULTURAL SCIENCE

Bee genera, diversity and abundance in genetically modified canola fields

(2018) Colton O'Brien et al.   GM Crops & Food-Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Food Chain

Frequent Insect Visitors Are Not Always Pollen Carriers in Hybrid Carrot Pollination

(2018) Ann Gaffney et al.   Insects

Tillage intensity or landscape features: What matters most for wild bee diversity in vineyards?

(2018) Sophie Kratschmer et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Insect pollination is at least as important for marketable crop yield as plant quality in a seed crop

(2018) Thijs P. M. Fijen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Impact of tillage on the crop pollinating, ground-nesting bee, Peponapis pruinosa in California

(2016) Katharina S. Ullmann et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Comparing the pollination services of honey bees and wild bees in a watermelon field

(2016) Nikos Garantonakis et al.   SCIENTIA HORTICULTURAE

Hairiness: the missing link between pollinators and pollination

(2016) Jamie R. Stavert et al.   PeerJ

Watermelon pollinators exhibit complementarity in both visitation rate and single-visit pollination efficiency

(2015) Gideon Pisanty et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Pesticide use within a pollinator-dependent crop has negative effects on the abundance and species richness of sweat bees, Lasioglossum spp., and on bumble bee colony growth

(2015) Rachel E. Mallinger et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Diversity and life-history traits of wild bees (Insecta: Hymenoptera) in intensive agricultural landscapes in the Rolling Pampa, Argentina

(2015) Violette Le Féon et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

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

(2015) David Kleijn et al.   Nature Communications

Evaluating nesting microhabitat for ground-nesting bees using emergence traps

(2014) Hillary S. Sardiñas et al.   BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY

From research to action: enhancing crop yield through wild pollinators

(2014) Lucas A Garibaldi et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Native bees buffer the negative impact of climate warming on honey bee pollination of watermelon crops

(2013) Romina Rader et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pollinator body size mediates the scale at which land use drives crop pollination services

(2013) Faye E. Benjamin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Assessing the impact of an introduced bee,Anthidium manicatum, on pollinator communities in New Zealand

(2013) J Soper et al.   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF BOTANY

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

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

The floral hosts of Japanese polylectic sweat bees of subgenus Lasioglossum (Lasioglossum) (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

(2012) Mohamed Shebl   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Phylogeny of halictine bees supports a shared origin of eusociality for Halictus and Lasioglossum (Apoidea: Anthophila: Halictidae)

(2012) Jason Gibbs et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Born in an Alien Nest : How Do Social Parasite Male Offspring Escape from Host Aggression?

(2012) Patrick Lhomme et al.   PLoS One

Ecological intensification: harnessing ecosystem services for food security

(2012) Riccardo Bommarco et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Relocation and establishment of nesting populations of the native beeLeioproctus huakiwiDonovan (Hymenoptera: Colletidae).

(2012) Barry J. Donovan et al.   NEW ZEALAND ENTOMOLOGIST

Predicted fates of ground-nesting bees in soil heated by wildfire: Thermal tolerances of life stages and a survey of nesting depths

(2011) James H. Cane et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Spatial and temporal variation in pollinator effectiveness: do unmanaged insects provide consistent pollination services to mass flowering crops?

(2011) Romina Rader et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

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

(2010) Antonia Zurbuchen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Observations on bee species visiting white clover in New Zealand pastures

(2010) Louise Malone et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Native bees are a rich natural resource in urban California gardens

(2009) Gordon W. Frankie et al.   CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE

Alternative pollinator taxa are equally efficient but not as effective as the honeybee in a mass flowering crop

(2009) Romina Rader et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Wild Bee Abundance and Pollination Service in Cultivated Pumpkins: Farm Management, Nesting Behavior and Landscape Effects

(2009) H. Esther Julier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Analysis of pollen loads in a wild bee community (Hymenoptera: Apidae) – a method for elucidating habitat use and foraging distances

(2008) Marion Beil et al.   APIDOLOGIE

EVOLUTION OF POLYPLOIDY AND THE DIVERSIFICATION OF PLANT–POLLINATOR INTERACTIONS

(2008) John N. Thompson et al.   ECOLOGY

Complex sociogenetic organization and reproductive skew in a primitively eusocial sweat bee, Lasioglossum malachurum, as revealed by microsatellites

(2003) Robert J. Paxton et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY