A Buzz for Sustainability and Conservation: The Growing Potential of Citizen Science Studies on Bees

Citizen science in developing countries: how to improve volunteer participation

(2020) Fabrice Requier et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

International scientists formulate a roadmap for insect conservation and recovery

(2020) Jeffrey A. Harvey et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Why bees are critical for achieving sustainable development

(2020) Vidushi Patel et al.   AMBIO

Citizen science improves our understanding of the impact of soil management on wild pollinator abundance in agroecosystems

(2020) Logan R. Appenfeller et al.   PLoS One

Citizen Science for Scientific Literacy and the Attainment of Sustainable Development Goals in Formal Education

(2020) Miguel Ángel Queiruga-Dios et al.   Sustainability

Community science participants gain environmental awareness and contribute high quality data but improvements are needed: insights from Bumble Bee Watch

(2020) Victoria J. MacPhail et al.   PeerJ

Honey bee colony winter loss rates for 35 countries participating in the COLOSS survey for winter 2018–2019, and the effects of a new queen on the risk of colony winter loss

(2020) Alison Gray et al.   JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH

Why the views of Latin American Scientists on Citizen Science as a Tool for Pollinator Monitoring and Conservation Matter?

(2020) B F Viana et al.   NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Mapping citizen science contributions to the UN sustainable development goals

(2020) Dilek Fraisl et al.   Sustainability Science

Citizen science involving farmers as a means to document temporal trends in farmland biodiversity and relate them to agricultural practices

(2020) Olivier Billaud et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The expanding Pacific Northwest range of Bombus impatiens Cresson and its establishment in Washington State

(2019) Chris Looney et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Incorporating citizen science, museum specimens, and field work into the assessment of extinction risk of the American Bumble bee (Bombus pensylvanicus De Geer 1773) in Canada

(2019) Victoria J. MacPhail et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT CONSERVATION

In Brazil, ‘useful idiots’ protest cuts to research and education

(2019) Herton Escobar   SCIENCE

An automated approach to identifying search terms for systematic reviews using keyword co‐occurrence networks

(2019) Eliza M. Grames et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Mexican science suffers under debilitating budget cuts

(2019) Giorgia Guglielmi   NATURE

A citizen science supported study on seasonal diversity and monoflorality of pollen collected by honey bees in Austria

(2019) Robert Brodschneider et al.   Scientific Reports

Using citizen science to examine the nesting ecology of ground‐nesting bees

(2019) Stephanie Maher et al.   Ecosphere

Capacity and willingness of farmers and citizen scientists to monitor crop pollinators and pollination services

(2019) M.P.D. Garratt et al.   Global Ecology and Conservation

Floral morphology as the main driver of flower-feeding insect occurrences in the Paris region

(2018) James Desaegher et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Interest exceeds understanding in public support of bee conservation

(2017) Joseph S Wilson et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Utilization of photographs taken by citizens for estimating bumblebee distributions

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

An updated understanding of Texas bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) species presence and potential distributions in Texas, USA

(2017) Jessica L. Beckham et al.   PeerJ

The diversity and evolution of ecological and environmental citizen science

(2017) Michael J. O. Pocock et al.   PLoS One

The benefits of systematic mapping to evidence-based environmental management

(2016) Neal R. Haddaway et al.   AMBIO

Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being

(2016) Simon G. Potts et al.   NATURE

Ten policies for pollinators

(2016) Lynn V. Dicks et al.   SCIENCE

Democratizing evolutionary biology, lessons from insects

(2016) Robert R Dunn et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Global change and local solutions: Tapping the unrealized potential of citizen science for biodiversity research

(2015) E.J. Theobald et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Using citizen science to monitor pollination services

(2015) LINDA BIRKIN et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Citizen science: a new approach to advance ecology, education, and conservation

(2015) Hiromi Kobori et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Challenges for biodiversity monitoring using citizen science in transitioning social–ecological systems

(2015) Jacqueline Loos et al.   JOURNAL FOR NATURE CONSERVATION

Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination

(2015) Romina Rader et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

An Analysis of Citizen Science Based Research: Usage and Publication Patterns

(2015) Ria Follett et al.   PLoS One

The Invisible Prevalence of Citizen Science in Global Research: Migratory Birds and Climate Change

(2014) Caren B. Cooper et al.   PLoS One

Science communication for biodiversity conservation

(2012) David Bickford et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The Whereabouts of Flower Visitors: Contrasting Land-Use Preferences Revealed by a Country-Wide Survey Based on Citizen Science

(2012) Nicolas Deguines et al.   PLoS One

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

Blackawton bees

(2010) P. S. Blackawton et al.   Biology Letters

Open Access to the Scientific Journal Literature: Situation 2009

(2010) Bo-Christer Björk et al.   PLoS One

Citizen Science: A Developing Tool for Expanding Science Knowledge and Scientific Literacy

(2009) Rick Bonney et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: The PRISMA Statement

(2009) David Moher et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Advantages of Volunteer-Based Biodiversity Monitoring in Europe

(2008) DIRK S. SCHMELLER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Enhancing citizen contributions to biodiversity science and public policy

(2008) D. Couvet et al.   INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE REVIEWS