Bumblebee Preadators Reduce Pollinator Density and Plant Fitness

By R. Dukas. 2005

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The role of resources and risks in regulating wild bee populations. (2011, background): “A study conducted near an aggregation of Philanthus bicinctus found that the predator had significantly reduced the local forager density of bumble bees, which further led to a significant reduction in pollination of a bumble bee–pollinated plant, Aconitum columbianum (24).”
A mutualism's indirect costs: the most aggressive plant bodyguards also deter pollinators (2006, background): “Ecologists are becoming increasingly aware of the links between pollination and herbivory (Mothershead and Marquis 2000, Strauss et al. 2002, Strauss and Murch 2004) and between pollination and predation (Dukas and Morse 2003, Suttle 2003, Dukas 2005).”
The effects of predation risk from crab spiders on bee foraging behavior (2006, background): “, this study) and plants (Suttle 2003; Muñoz and Arroyo 2004; Dukas 2005) having reduced survival or fitness in the presence of predators.”