Food in a row: urban trees offer valuable floral resources to pollinating insects

Historical nectar assessment reveals the fall and rise of floral resources in Britain

(2016) Mathilde Baude et al.   NATURE

Urban gardens promote bee foraging over natural habitats and plantations

(2016) Benjamin F. Kaluza et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

Bumble bees selectively use native and exotic species to maintain nutritional intake across highly variable and invaded local floral resource pools

(2015) ALEXANDRA N. HARMON-THREATT et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

EDITOR'S CHOICE: Enhancing gardens as habitats for flower-visiting aerial insects (pollinators): should we plant native or exotic species?

(2015) Andrew Salisbury et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Early spring floral foraging resources for pollinators in wet heathlands in Belgium

(2015) Laura Moquet et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Diversity and abundance of solitary and primitively eusocial bees in an urban centre: a case study from Northampton (England)

(2015) Muzafar Hussain Sirohi et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Plant Sterol Diversity in Pollen from Angiosperms

(2015) Claire Villette et al.   LIPIDS

Bee nutrition and floral resource restoration

(2015) Anthony D Vaudo et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Going native? Flower use by bumblebees in English urban gardens

(2014) Mick E. Hanley et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Pollen and nectar quality drive the major and minor floral choices of bumble bees

(2014) Laurent Somme et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Bumblebees in the city: abundance, species richness and diversity in two urban habitats

(2014) Bengt Gunnarsson et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

How Does Pollen Chemistry Impact Development and Feeding Behaviour of Polylectic Bees?

(2014) Maryse Vanderplanck et al.   PLoS One

Waggle Dance Distances as Integrative Indicators of Seasonal Foraging Challenges

(2014) Margaret J. Couvillon et al.   PLoS One

Standardized protocol to evaluate pollen polypeptides as bee food source

(2013) Maryse Vanderplanck et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Quantifying variation among garden plants in attractiveness to bees and other flower-visiting insects

(2013) Mihail Garbuzov et al.   FUNCTIONAL 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

Biological Flora of the British Isles:Robinia pseudoacacia

(2013) Arne Cierjacks et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Bee Food: The Chemistry and Nutritional Value of Nectar, Pollen and Mixtures of the Two

(2011) Susan W. Nicolson   AFRICAN ZOOLOGY

Micro-Quantitative Method for Analysis of Sterol Levels in Honeybees and Their Pollen Loads

(2011) Maryse Vanderplanck et al.   ANALYTICAL LETTERS

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

Comparative Reproductive Biology in Co-Occurring Invasive and Native Impatiens Species

(2011) Arnaud Vervoort et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Wild bees along an urban gradient: winners and losers

(2011) Weronika Banaszak-Cibicka et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

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

Diversity and distribution of the urban tree population in ten major Nordic cities

(2011) Henrik Sjöman et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Pollen amino acids and flower specialisation in solitary bees

(2010) Christiane Natalie Weiner et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Declines of managed honey bees and beekeepers in Europe

(2010) Simon G Potts et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

(2010) Simon G. Potts et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Determinates of inner city butterfly and bee species richness

(2010) Kevin C. Matteson et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Bumble bee pollen foraging regulation: role of pollen quality, storage levels, and odor

(2009) T. K. Kitaoka et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

A meta-analysis of bees' responses to anthropogenic disturbance

(2009) Rachael Winfree et al.   ECOLOGY

Same Host-Plant, Different Sterols: Variation in Sterol Metabolism in an Insect Herbivore Community

(2009) Eric M. Janson et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Butterflies and bumblebees in greenways and sown wildflower strips in southern Sweden

(2009) Christine Haaland et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Bumble Bees (Bombus spp) along a Gradient of Increasing Urbanization

(2009) Karin Ahrné et al.   PLoS One

Nutritive value of 15 single pollens and pollen mixes tested on larvae produced by bumblebee workers (Bombus terrestris, Hymenoptera: Apidae)

(2008) Jean-Noël Tasei et al.   APIDOLOGIE

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

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

Evidence for competition between honeybees and bumblebees; effects on bumblebee worker size

(2008) David Goulson et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

Seasonality in Bees and Their Floral Resource Plants at a Constructed Urban Bee Habitat in Berkeley, California

(2008) Victoria A. Wojcik et al.   JOURNAL OF THE KANSAS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Effects of urbanization on species richness: A review of plants and animals

(2008) Michael L. McKinney   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS