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Trap-nest sampling (Megachilidae)

Subcategory: demographic monitoring
Standard reference: Abrams and Eickwort (1980)
Papers: 17 | Mentions: 26

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Description

Installation and monitoring of artificial wooden nesting-blocks with multiple cavity sizes to track solitary bee nesting activity, timing, and reproductive success. Involves regular visual monitoring and offspring capture.

Typical Equipment

  • wooden blocks
  • drill
  • paper drinking straws
  • pen light
  • plastic vials

Output Measurements

  • nesting activity onset date
  • nesting duration
  • reproductive success
  • species identification

Papers Using This Protocol (20)

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Wild foundress queen bumble bees make numerous, short foraging trips and exhibit frequent nest failure: Insights from trap-nesting and RFID tracking

2025Ecology and Evolutionintroducing
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Wild foundress queen bumble bees make numerous, short foraging trips and exhibit frequent nest failure: Insights from trap-nesting and RFID tracking

2025Ecology and Evolutionusing
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Phenological drivers and consequences for solitary bees

2024using
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Effects of Temperature on Voltinism in Subalpine Potter Wasps (Vespidae: Eumeninae)

2022using
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Impacts of brood parasites, floral abundance, and bee age on maternal investment in a solitary bee, <i> Osmia iridis </i>

2021using
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Impacts of brood parasites, floral abundance, and bee age on maternal investment in a solitary bee, <i> Osmia iridis </i>

2021introducing
student_paper

Effects of weather and floral density on foraging activity of cavity nesting bees (<i> Osmia </i>spp.)

2019introducing
student_paper

Nesting Preferences of Osmia Bees in the Rocky Mountains

2018using
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Nesting aggregation as a predictor of brood parasitism in mason bees (<i>Osmia spp.</i>)

2018Ecological Entemologyusing
student_paper

Selection for early reproduction in the solitary bee <i>Hoplitis fulgida</i>

2017using
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Direct benefits and indirect costs of warm temperatures for high-elevation populations of a solitary bee

2017Ecologyusing
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Asteraceae pollen provisions protect <i>Osmia</i> mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) from brood parasitism

2016American Naturalistusing
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Use of Low Quality Pollen by Asteraceae-Specialist Osmia Mason Bees (<i>Hymenoptera: Megachilidae</i>)

2016using
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Asteraceae pollen specialization affects vulnerability to brood parasitism in mason bees (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae).

2014using
student_paper

There's no place like home: Investigating the ideal nesting requirements of Megachilidae bees in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado

2012introducing
student_paper

There's no place like home: Investigating the ideal nesting requirements of Megachilidae bees in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado

2012using
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An examination of synchrony between insect emergence and flowering in Rocky Mountain meadows

2011Ecological Monographsusing
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The Effects of Soil Nitrogen Availability on Plant Reproduction and Solitary Bee Behavior

2006using
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Are native bees picky enough? The effect of an invasive plant, <i>Linaria vulgaris</i>, on the foraging of native bee pollinators

2006using
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Solitary behavior in a high-altitude population of the social sweat bee <i></i>Halictus rubicundus<i></i> (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

1996Behav Ecol Sociobiolusing