Native Bee Resources

Resources

• Native Bee Pictures
• Pollinator Conservation
• The Buzz on Native Bees 
• The Plight of Native Bees
• USDA Native Bee Lab at Logan, Utah
• A nice site teaching kids about honeybees 
• Research on native pollinators and bees
  - Bees 'betray' their flowers when pollinator species decline
  - Scientific paper: Historical changes in northeastern US bee pollinators related to shared ecological traits
  - Blog post on the historical changes in northeastern US bee pollinators article above
  - Scientific Paper: Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees

Links on Native Bee Ecology and Identifying Native Bees

1. Discoverlife: Great key for identifying bees in the United States
   
   
2. Bugguide: Great pictures of bees
   
   
3. Native Bee Biology from the Xerces Society: The Xerces Society is a fantastic non profit conservation, outrearch, and research organization that is devoted to invertebrate conservation. They have some great resources for pollinator and native bee conservation. 
    - Bumble Bee Identification from Xerces
   
   
4. Sam Droege is an amazing USGS scientists who has done incredible work with native bees. 
   - Check out this flickr account of wonderful bee photos. 
   - Flickr account of bee nest parasites set up by Sam
   
   
5. In 2001, the journal Ecology and Society had an incredibly valuable and important special feature issue that was devoted to pollinator ecology and conservation, with several articles focusing on native bees. 
   - Entire Special Feature
   - Marlin and LaBerge's research on The Native Bee Fauna of Carlinville, Illinois, Revisited After 75 Years: a Case for Persistence
   - Cane and Tepedino's research on Causes and Extent of Declines among Native North American Invertebrate Pollinators: Detection, Evidence, and Consequences
   -Williams, Minckley, and Silveira's research on the Variation in Native Bee Faunas and its Implications for Detecting Community Changes