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. 2024 Nov 14;15(11):892.
doi: 10.3390/insects15110892.

Chasing a Little-Known Fairy Bee (Perdita meconis) in a Dynamic Desert Landscape

Sarit Chanprame  1 , Colleen Meidt  1   2 , Terry Griswold  2 , Joseph S Wilson  3 , Kelsey K Graham  2
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Chasing a Little-Known Fairy Bee (Perdita meconis) in a Dynamic Desert Landscape

Sarit Chanprame et al. Insects. .

Abstract

It is widely understood that bees play an important role in many different ecosystems, due to the services they provide as pollinators [...].

Keywords: Arctomecon; Las Vegas bearpoppy; Mojave poppy bee; bee decline; conservation; pollination.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Map of P. meconis distribution, historically (small dots) and detected in 2020–2022 surveys (large red dots). Sites where the host plant was present, but P. meconis was not (large yellow dots).
Figure 2
Figure 2
Results of our pollen analysis of pollen grains removed from the bodies of P. meconis specimens (n = 23).
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