Preparing for nest traps for 2016

Nest trap has been identified as one of the major trapping methods for wild bees. It is not only standard for ecological or biodiversity studies, but also gather more information for bee natural history. Besides, it helps us to gather more experience to increase pollinator bees diversity and density for agriculture.

We plan to set up nest traps in series of observatory stations or sampling sites alone altitudinal gradients in China.

In the lab, Mr. Liang DING, Mr. Feng Yuan, Dr. Dun-Yuan HUANG, Dr. Chun-Ling HE, Mr. Qing-Tao WU, Mr. Peng-Fei GUO et al. did a lot in the field to apply nest traps for bee systematics and diversity studies. More thanks to Mr. Qing-Tao WU for his great efforts to develop equipments, which make many things possible to study bees.

为2016年野外工作准备原材料，制作野生蜂巢管。感谢丁亮、袁峰、黄敦元、贺春玲、吴清涛、郭鹏飞等大量前期实地调研，也为清涛积极投入工作点赞！