 Bee (genus Lasioglossum) on a watermellon flower. Photo credit: B. Rosenthal. Congratulations to Andrew Aldercotte and Dylan Simpson for their recent pub in Insect Conservation and Diversity!
Their paper is titled "Crop visitation by wild bees declines over an 8-year time series: A dramatic trend, or just dramatic between-year variation?" To summarize, Dylan says: "We found that, across an eight year study, wild bee visitation rates to watermelon declined by a dramatic 58%! However, visitation rates were highly variable year-to-year. As a result, we could not actually determine whether the decline we observed was indicative of a larger trend, or just an artifact of regular population fluctuations." Check out the paper here at this link: https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12589 And you can read more about their work on Twitter too! @AndrewSKADI, @dylantux, @rachael_winfree |
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