Comparative Trapping Efficiency to Characterize Bee Abundance, Diversity, and Community Composition in Apple Orchards

Joshi, Neelendra K.; Leslie, Timothy W.; Rajotte, Edwin G.; Kammerer, Melanie; Otieno, Mark; Biddinger, David J.

doi:10.1093/aesa/sav057

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“…Bees prefer to forage in the most rewarding patches (in terms of quality and distance) in the landscape (Olsson et al, 2015), and the higher abundance of bees near natural woodland could be due to this reason. Similar to a previous study on bee community composition in apple orchards in this region (Joshi et al, 2015), we also observed high diversity of wild bees visiting apple flowers during bloom period. These bee species, especially solitary bees, commonly live within natural, or semi-natural vegetation.…”

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Proximity to Woodland and Landscape Structure Drives Pollinator Visitation in Apple Orchard Ecosystem

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Landscapes of farms and adjacent areas are known to influence abundance of various arthropods such as pollinators in commercial agricultural ecosystems. In this context, we examined the effect of heterogeneous landscapes surrounding and including commercial apple orchards on pollinator visitation and foraging distance during bloom period from 2011 to 2013 in Pennsylvania. Our results showed that the frequency of feral honeybees and solitary bee visits within an apple orchard depends on the proximity of the orchard to an unmanaged habitat (primarily comprised of forest). At the landscape scale, we found that the Mean Proximity Index, the Largest Patch Index, and the Number of Patches positively correlated with the visitation rate of dominant bee taxa (Apis mellifera, Bombus spp., and solitary bees) visiting apple flowers at low spatial scales (up to 500 m around the orchards). The Mean Proximity Index at 500 m was related to bee visitation patterns, especially for solitary bees and A. mellifera. Bees in all our study sites preferred to forage in areas with large homogenous patches up to 500 m around an apple orchard. This effect can be attributed to the mass flowering of apples that formed the largest proportion of the 500 m spatial scale. The Number of Patches at 250 m spatial scale was positively correlated with bee visitation, especially Bombus spp., probably because these areas had more habitats and more resources required by these bees. We conclude that retaining unmanaged habitats closer to commercial apple orchards will maintain biodiversity within the landscapes and insure pollination services to apples.

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Proximity to Woodland and Landscape Structure Drives Pollinator Visitation in Apple Orchard Ecosystem

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“…In our study, large-bodied apid bees, such as Bombus , were collected in greater numbers in blue vane traps relative to bowl traps. Blue vane traps are effective at collecting bees, especially large-bodied Apidae, which is consistent with other studies that have employed them [31,105,107,108,109]. In fact, blue vane traps in a simple agricultural landscape (soybean) collected a surprising number of large-bodied apid bees, including oligoleges of non-crop flowers [11].…”

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“…Trap type, color, and height can influence wild bee captures [105,106,107,108]. Indeed, we captured mostly Lasioglossum spp.…”

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Bee Community of Commercial Potato Fields in Michigan and Bombus impatiens Visitation to Neonicotinoid-Treated Potato Plants

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We conducted a bee survey in neonicotinoid-treated commercial potato fields using bowl and vane traps in the 2016 growing season. Traps were placed outside the fields, at the field edges, and 10 and 30 m into the fields. We collected 756 bees representing 58 species, with Lasioglossum spp. comprising 73% of all captured bees. We found seven Bombus spp., of which B. impatiens was the only known visitor of potato flowers in our region. The majority of the bees (68%) were collected at the field edges and in the field margins. Blue vane traps caught almost four-times as many bees and collected 30% more species compared to bowl traps. Bee communities did not differ across trap locations but they were different among trap types. We tested B. impatiens visitation to neonicotinoid treated and untreated potato flowers in field enclosures. The amount of time bees spent at flowers and the duration of visits were not significantly different between the two treatments. Our results demonstrate that a diverse assemblage of bees is associated with an agroecosystem dominated by potatoes despite the apparent lack of pollinator resources provided by the crop. We found no difference in B. impatiens foraging behavior on neonicotinoid-treated compared to untreated plants.

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“…Other sampling methods that are often used to capture bees consist of using passive traps to sample these organisms. One example, the pan/bowl trap, (Cane et al, 2000;Roulston et al, 2007;Wilson et al, 2008;Joshi et al, 2015) consists of plastic plates painted with colors attractive to bees (usually blue, yellow, and white) and filled with water and soap droplets to decrease the water's surface tension and avoid the specimens' escape. Another passive method, specifically designed for sampling orchid bees, uses scent/ baited traps made with PET bottles (Nemésio, 2012;Nemésio & Vasconcelos, 2014).…”

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Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in an Ecotonal Cerrado-Amazon Region in Brazil

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Little is known about the composition of the bee community in the Cerrado-Amazon transition area. Herein, we present the results of a bee survey done within the municipality of Conceição do Araguaia, in the state of Pará. Six fragments were sampled twice (once in the dry season and once in the rainy season) using three methods of collecting: arboreal pitfalls with urine, scent traps, and pan traps. We recorded 67 bee species, distributed in 28 genera and eight tribes. Except for Partamona chapadicola, which is endemic to the Cerrado biome, the remaining species we sampled occur in the Amazonian Forest. Of those, 15 species are considered endemic to the Amazonian biome (four Euglossini, eight Meliponini, one Paratetrapedia, one Xylocopa and one Augochlorini), while 27 occur in forest and areas of Cerrado (seven Euglossini, fifteen Meliponini, two Paratetrapedia, one Xylocopa and two Augochlorini). Among 53 species sampled (disregarding the Euglossini species which were sampled almost exclusively with scent), 41 were captured with arboreal pitfall traps. Of those, 20 species were from the Meliponini tribe.

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Comparative Trapping Efficiency to Characterize Bee Abundance, Diversity, and Community Composition in Apple Orchards

Cited by 85 publications

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Proximity to Woodland and Landscape Structure Drives Pollinator Visitation in Apple Orchard Ecosystem

Proximity to Woodland and Landscape Structure Drives Pollinator Visitation in Apple Orchard Ecosystem

Bee Community of Commercial Potato Fields in Michigan and Bombus impatiens Visitation to Neonicotinoid-Treated Potato Plants

Bees (Hymenoptera, Apoidea) in an Ecotonal Cerrado-Amazon Region in Brazil

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