Loss of natural habitat through land‐use change threatens bees. Urbanisation is a major,
increasing form, of habitat loss, and a novel, pervasive form of disturbance known to impact …

Arthropods are declining globally, and entomologists ought to be in the forefront of
protecting them. However, entomological study methods are typically lethal, and we argue …

Museum collections around the world contain billions of specimens, including rare and
extinct species. If their genetic information could be retrieved at a large scale, this would …

Bees are important pollinators of wild and domesticated flowering plant species. Over the
last 30 years, an increasing number of scientific articles have been published on the ecology …

Bee monitoring, or widespread efforts to document bee community biodiversity, can involve
data collection using lethal (specimen collections) or non-lethal methods (observations …

Billions of specimens can be found in natural history museum collections around the world,
holding potential molecular secrets to be unveiled. Among them are intriguing specimens of …

Abstract The squash bee Eucera (Peponapis) pruinosa is emerging as a model species to
study how stressors impact solitary wild bees in North America. Here, we describe the …

Managed and wild bee populations are in decline around the globe due to several biotic
and abiotic stressors. Pathogenic viruses associated with the Western honey bee (Apis …

DNA sequencing technologies continue to advance the biological sciences, expanding
opportunities for genomic studies of non‐model organisms for basic and applied questions …

Conserving bees are critical both ecologically and economically. Genetic tools are valuable
for monitoring these vital pollinators since tracking these small, fast‐flying insects by …