A century of wild bee sampling: historical data and neural network analysis reveal ecological traits associated with species loss

KK Graham, P Glaum, J Hartert… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We analysed the wild bee community sampled from 1921 to 2018 at a nature preserve in
southern Michigan, USA, to study long-term community shifts in a protected area. During an …

Where are the biggest gaps in phylogenetic coverage of insect diversity?

D Chesters - Systematic Entomology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Gaps in phylogenetic knowledge are unlikely to be filled in an optimal manner in the
absence of a quantitative descriptive framework of phylogenetic coverage to date and a …

Thermal biology diversity of bee pollinators: Taxonomic, phylogenetic, and plant community‐level correlates

CM Herrera - Ecological Monographs, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Community‐wide assembly of plant–pollinator systems depends on an intricate combination
of biotic and abiotic factors, including heterogeneity among pollinators in thermal biology …

Pollen specialist bee species are accurately predicted from visitation, occurrence and phylogenetic data

C Smith, N Bachelder, AL Russell, V Morales… - Oecologia, 2025 - Springer
An animal's diet breadth is a central aspect of its life history, yet the factors determining why
some species have narrow dietary breadths (specialists) and others have broad dietary …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding and addressing shortfalls in European wild bee data

L Marshall, N Leclercq, LG Carvalheiro, HH Dathe… - Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding and reversing biodiversity decline in the Anthropocene requires robust data
on species taxonomic identity, distribution, ecology, and population trends. Data deficits …

Conserved and unique protein expression patterns across reproductive stage transitions in social hymenopteran queens

A McAfee, B Martinet, K Przybyla… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Hymenopteran queens are collectively highly fecund, often long‐lived individuals that
undergo dramatic physiological changes after they mate and establish a nest. However, the …

Resin foraging interactions in stingless bees: an ecological synthesis using multilayer networks

DYM Nakamura, S Koffler, MAR Mello, TM Francoy - Apidologie, 2024 - Springer
Stingless bees use resins for nest construction, colony defense, and production of cerumen,
propolis, and geopropolis. Despite their importance, resin foraging interactions are …

Morphology and distribution of antennal sensilla in five species of solitary bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea)

M Lento, ML Vommaro, S Flaminio, P Brandmayr… - Arthropod Structure & …, 2024 - Elsevier
Solitary bees play a crucial role in ecological systems, contributing to the pollination of crops
and wild plants. All females are reproductive, and their habitat requirements include nesting …

Data-driven analyses of social complexity in bees reveal phenotypic diversification following a major evolutionary transition

O Peled, G Greenbaum, G Bloch - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
How social complexity evolved is a long-standing enigma. In most animal groups, social
complexity is typically classified into a few discrete classes. This approach is oversimplified …

Conflicting Timelines: Exploring patterns of mito-nuclear discordance in divergence estimates among tetrapods

E Ranganathan, P Karanth - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Phylogenetic studies across a range of tetrapod groups have historically utilised either
mitochondrial DNA, concatenated mito-nuclear matrices, or nuclear loci to infer divergence …