Apple (Malus domestica) is one of the most important fruit crops globally. Apple trees
depend greatly on insect pollination to achieve high yields and obtain fruits of acceptable …

Beneficial arthropods provide many important ecosystem services. In agroecosystems,
pollination and control of crop pests provide benefits worth billions of dollars annually …

Effective monitoring is necessary to provide robust detection of bee declines. In the United
States and worldwide, bowl traps have been increasingly used to monitor native bees and …

Wild bees, like many other taxa, are threatened by land‐use and climate change, which, in
turn, jeopardizes pollination of crops and wild plants. Understanding how land‐use and …

Urbanization is one of the major threats to wild plants and pollinators, and its global increase
demands a better understanding of the mechanism driving its negative impact. Urban …

Urbanization has detrimental effects on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, as
agricultural and semi-natural habitats are converted into landscapes dominated by built …

Despite widespread concerns about the anthropogenic drivers of global pollinator declines,
little information is available about the impacts of land management practices on wild bees …

Wild bees form diverse communities that pollinate plants in both native and agricultural
ecosystems making them both ecologically and economically important. The growing …

Native bees are in decline as many species are sensitive to habitat loss, climate change,
and non-target exposure to synthetic pesticides. Recent laboratory and semi-field …

During bloom of spring orchard crops, bees are the primary providers of pollination service.
Monitoring these insects for research projects is often done by timed observations or by …