Abstract Context There have been dramatic global declines in pollinating insects. A common land management intervention to support wild pollinators is plant non-crop flowering plants (‘pollinator planting’). However, there are limited data on which species or spatial arrangement of planting provide maximum benefit pollinators. Objectives Here we investigate and locations visited by free-foragin...

A recommendation of: Alessandro Fisogni, Gherardo Bogo, François Massol, Laura Bortolotti, Marta Galloni Cuckoo male bumblebees perform slower and longer flower visits than free-living worker https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4489066

The selection of appropriate food resources by bees is a critical aspect for the maintenance their populations, especially in current context global change and pollinator decline. Wild have sophisticated ability to forage selectively on specific resources, can assess quality pollen using contact chemosensory perception (taste). While numerous studies investigated detection macronutrients impact...

Managing farmland to benefit biodiversity is becoming increasingly necessary combat declines and maintain ecosystem services. Results-based agri-environmental schemes are a tool used achieve this by paying farmers based on environmental results delivered. These often utilise plant indicator species assess at field scale; however, it unknown if focusing enhancing subset of one group within resul...