Search Results - "Willis Chan, D. Susan"
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Population decline in a ground-nesting solitary squash bee (Eucera pruinosa) following exposure to a neonicotinoid insecticide treated crop (Cucurbita pepo)
Published in Scientific reports (19-02-2021)“…Insect pollinators are threatened by multiple environmental stressors, including pesticide exposure. Despite being important pollinators, solitary…”
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Assessment of risk to hoary squash bees (Peponapis pruinosa) and other ground-nesting bees from systemic insecticides in agricultural soil
Published in Scientific reports (14-08-2019)“…Using the hoary squash bee ( Peponapis pruinosa ) as a model, we provide the first probabilistic risk assessment of exposure to systemic insecticides in soil…”
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Understanding and comparing relative pesticide risk among North American wild bees from their association with agriculture
Published in The Science of the total environment (15-11-2024)“…In North America, approximately 21 % (739 species) of the total wild bee diversity is known to be associated with crops, with bee species varying in the extent…”
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Phenological synchrony between the hoary squash bee (Eucera pruinosa) and cultivated acorn squash (Cucurbita pepo) flowering is imperfect at a northern site
Published in Current research in insect science (01-01-2021)“…The phenology of crop flowering and pollinator reproduction can become asynchronous at the edge of their respective ranges. At a northern site in Peterborough…”
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Hoary Squash Bees (Eucera pruinosa: Hymenoptera: Apidae) Provide Abundant and Reliable Pollination Services to Cucurbita Crops in Ontario (Canada)
Published in Environmental entomology (12-08-2021)“…The increasing demand for insect-pollinated crops highlights the need for crop pollination paradigms that include all available pollinators. In North America,…”
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Identifying wild bee visitors of major crops in North America with notes on potential threats from agricultural practices
Published in Frontiers in sustainable food systems (04-11-2022)“…Considering the critical importance of insect pollination to food security and documented declines in wild bee populations, it is imperative to develop…”
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CropPol: A dynamic, open and global database on crop pollination
Published in Ecology (Durham) (01-03-2022)“…Seventy five percent of the world's food crops benefit from insect pollination. Hence, there has been increased interest in how global change drivers impact…”
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Risk of exposure in soil and sublethal effects of systemic insecticides on ground-nesting hoary squash bees
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GOING FOR A RIDE
Published in Bee Culture (01-11-2023)“…Compared to conventional applications such as spray or dusting, apivectoring offers an incredibly efficient way to distribute biological control agents to…”
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BEE VECTORING
Published in Bee Culture (01-09-2021)“…Compared to conventional applications such as spray or dusting, apivectoring offers an incredibly efficient way to distribute biological control agents to…”
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GOING FOR A RIDE: How Bees Carrying Fungi Are Protecting Agroecosystems
Published in Bee Culture (01-08-2021)“…In recent years, the global decline in pollinator populations has received a great deal of media attention. Since the 1970s, the decline of bees has been…”
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