Providing foraging resources for bumblebees in intensively farmed landscapes

By Richard F. Pywell, E. A. Warman, C. Carvell, T. Sparks, L. Dicks, D. Bennett, A. Wright, C. Critchley, A. Sherwood. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Plant Science

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Semi‐natural grasslands as population sources for pollinating insects in agricultural landscapes (2006, background): “and Bombus lucorum workers are very difficult to distinguish (Prys-Jones & Corbet 1991; cf. Saville et al. 1997; Pywell et al. 2005) and were therefore collectively referred to as B.”
Comparing the efficacy of agri‐environment schemes to enhance bumble bee abundance and diversity on arable field margins (2006, background): “Field margins sown with the legume-based pollen and nectar mixture attracted the highest total number and species richness of foraging bees in all years, with on average up to 269 times more bees recorded in this treatment than in the crop and conservation headlands (Table 3).”
Phenology of farmland floral resources reveals seasonal gaps in nectar availability for bumblebees (2019, background): “Nectar‐rich field margins are an important component of these schemes and there are data on the best floral mixtures for supporting farmland bumblebees, for example (Carvell, Meek, Pywell, & Nowakowski, 2004; Pywell et al., 2005).”
Do corridors promote dispersal in grassland butterflies and other insects? (2007, background): “Such strips have been shown to be beneficial for insect species richness and abundance (Feber et al. 1996; Pywell et al. 2004, 2005) but there are still very few studies investigating whether they also can act as dispersal corridors for species associated with grasslands.”
Assessing the value of annual and perennial forage mixtures for bumblebees by direct observation and pollen analysis (2006, background): “…enhance the abundance and diversity of nectar- and pollen-feeding insects compared with margins sown with tussocky grass mixtures, conventional crops, treated as conservation headlands or ploughed and left to regenerate naturally (Meek et al., 2002; Carvell et al., 2004; Pywell et al., 2005).”
Opportunities to enhance pollinator biodiversity in solar parks (2021, background): “relative to cropped areas rather than the establishment method [54, 129].”
Habitat restoration benefits wild bees: A meta‐analysis (2018, background): “For example, addition of native hedgerows or planting of wildflowers in field margins can provide consistent foraging opportunities, leading to greater wild bee diversity and abundance (Haaland, Naisbit, & Bersier, 2011; Pywell et al., 2005, 2012).”
Do sown flower strips boost wild pollinator abundance and pollination services in a spring-flowering crop? A case study from UK cider apple orchards (2017, background): “89 Such flower-rich habitats, if designed effectively, provide pollinators with a greater 90 diversity of pollen and nectar resources, and can increase the availability of nest sites 91 for wild pollinators in crop fields (Carreck & Williams 2002; Pywell et al. 2005; Russo 92 et al. 2013).”
Pollination services are mediated by bee functional diversity and landscape context (2015, background): “Meadow and grassland restoration has been adopted for bee conservation in Europe (Westrich 1996; Carvelll et al. 2004, 2007; Pywell et al. 2005; Albrecht et al. 2007) and floral strips have been found to promote wild bee visitation to almond orchards in California (Klein et al.”
Impact of landscape alteration and invasions on pollinators: a meta‐analysis (2012, background): “…remaining natural patches (Kohler et al. 2008), while more extensive croplands, such as those with semi-natural vegetation in fields margins, can offer foraging areas for pollinators (Pywell et al. 2005) generating less hostile landscapes and buffering the effect of the reduction of fragment size.”
At what spatial scale do high-quality habitats enhance the diversity of forbs and pollinators in intensively farmed landscapes? (2007, background): “Significantly more species and individuals of bees and hover flies were observed in the experimentally established flowerrich patches, which is in agreement with previous findings (Sutherland, Sullivan & Poppy 2001; Pywell et al. 2005; Carvell et al. 2007).”
Crop flower visitation by honeybees, bumblebees and solitary bees: Behavioural differences and diversity responses to landscape (2013, background): “: Apoidea) that are bred and moved around landscapes in artificial hives, and wild bees that are manipulated indirectly through management to improve nesting and foraging resource (Steffan-Dewenter et al., 2002; Pywell et al., 2005; Öckinger and Smith, 2007; Breeze et al., 2011; Aebi et al., 2012; O”
Declines in forage availability for bumblebees at a national scale (2006, background): “An opportunity now exists to use knowledge from this and other studies to inform targeted habitat restoration, to reintroduce important forage plants to the farmed landscape through agri-environment schemes (Carvell et al., 2004; Pywell et al., 2005).”