Sampling Bees (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) for Pollinator Community Studies: Pitfalls of Pan-trapping

By J. Cane, R. Minckley, L. Kervin. 2000

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• Spatial patterns of bee captures in North American bowl trapping surveys (2010, background): “Over the past decade, pan, Moericke, or bowl traps (Kirk, 1984; Leong & Thorp, 1999; Cane et al., 2000; Monsevièius, 2004; Toler et al., 2005;Wilson et al., 2008) have become widely used to sample bees.”
• Factors affecting bee communities in forest openings and adjacent mature forest (2017, background): “Although bowl traps avoid collector bias, which may affect samples collected by opportunistic netting techniques (Westphal et al., 2008), bowl traps tend to catch fewer large-bodied bees and fewer individuals of certain genera (Cane et al., 2000; Cane, 2001; Roulston et al., 2007).”
• A Comparison of Pan Trap and Intensive Net Sampling Techniques for Documenting a Bee (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) Fauna (2007, background): “The most commonly deployed recent protocol is the use of colored pan traps (bowls) filled with soapy water (Aguiar and Sharkov, 1997; Calbuig, 2001; Cane et al., 2000; Leong and Thorp, 1999; Toler et al., 2005).”
• Diversity and abundance of solitary and primitively eusocial bees in an urban centre: a case study from Northampton (England) (2015, background): “All surveys took place between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., on warm and sunny days (Cane et al. 2000).”
• Landscape effects of forest loss in a pollination system (2007, background): “Different bee species and sexes within species are attracted to different colors and shapes of pan traps (Leong and Thorp 1999; Cane et al. 2000; Toler et al. 2005).”
• Efficiency of Malaise traps and colored pan traps for collecting flower visiting insects from three forested ecosystems (2007, background): “However, Cane et al. (2001) cautioned”
• Assessing bee species richness in two Mediterranean communities: importance of habitat type and sampling techniques (2011, background): “Acting as visual attractors, pan traps capture bees with contrasting nesting preferences and life histories, but have the tendency to capture smaller bees disproportionately relative to larger ones (Cane et al. 2000; Roulston et al. 2007).”
• Elevated pan traps to monitor bees in flowering crop canopies (2009, methodology): “Apis mellifera L. (honey bees) are rarely caught in studies that use pan traps, so it has been generally assumed that pan traps are not a good method for monitoring honey bees (Cane et al., 2001).”
• Comparative Trapping Efficiency to Characterize Bee Abundance, Diversity, and Community Composition in Apple Orchards (2015, background): “…of colored pan traps alone in a sampling region can influence findings about the relative abundance of bees in that region (Leong and Thorp 1999, Cane et al. 2000, Baum and Wallen 2011, Saunders and Luck 2013); due to color-specific characteristics, the pan traps might attract only bee species…”