Publications

Averill, A.L. 2011. Nest location in bumble bees: effect of landscape and insecticides. American Bee Journal 151 (12): 1187-1190

Averill, A.L. , N. Hahn, and M.M. Sylvia. Inventory of wild bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) visiting cultivated cranberry. Northeastern Naturalist (submitted)

Dibble, A.C, A.L. Averill et al. 2017. Bees and their habitats in four New England states. Maine Agric. Forestry Exp. Station (MAFES).

King, D.I., and J. Milam. 2017. Native bee baseline and effects of monitoring on the Green Mountain National Forest. Report to the Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forest.

Lerman, S.B., A.R. Contosta, J. Milam , and C. Bang. 2018. To mow or to mow less: lawn mowing frequency and abundance in suburban yards. Biological Conservation, 221:160-174.

Lerman, S.B., and J. Milam. 2016. Bee fauna and floral abundance within lawn-dominated suburban yards in Springfield, MA. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 109(5): 713-723.

Milam, J. 2013. Effects of fuel reduction and habitat restoration on native bee communities in Massachusetts pitch pine–scrub oak barrens. Unpublished report.

Milam, J. 2015. Bee communities in created and enhanced early-successional habitats for the New England Cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis) recovery project in New Hampshire Report to the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Beltsville, MD.

Milam, J. 2016. 2015-2016 NRCS survey of bee communities in early-successional habitats created for the New England Cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis) recovery project in New Hampshire and southern Maine. Report to the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Beltsville, MD.

Milam, J. and D.I. King. 2016. The effect of reclamation of a pitch pine-scrub oak barren at the Muddy Brook Wildlife Management Area on native bee diversity and abundance. Report to the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife.

Milam, J., J.A. Litvaitis, A. Warren, D. Keirstead, D.I. King. In press. Bee assemblages in managed early-successional habitats in southeastern New Hampshire. Northeastern Naturalist.

Morkeski, A. and A.L. Averill. 2010. Wild bee status and evidence for pathogen spillover with honey bees. American Bee Journal 150 (11): 1049-1052.

Palmer-Young EC, Sadd BM, and LS Adler. 2016. Evolution of resistance to single and combined floral phytochemicals by a bumble bee parasite. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. doi: 10.1111/jeb.13002

Palmer-Young EC, Sadd BM, Irwin RE, and LS Adler. 2017. Synergistic effects of floral phytochemicals against a bumble bee parasite. Ecology and Evolution. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2794 (14 pages).

Palmer-Young EC, Sadd BM, Stevenson PC, Irwin RE, and LS Adler. 2016. Bumble bee parasite strains vary in resistance to phytochemicals. Scientific Reports 6: 37087. doi: 10.1038/srep37087

Palmer-Young EC, Tozkar CO, Schwarz RS, Chen Y, Irwin RE, Adler LS and JD Evans (in press). Nectar and pollen phytochemicals stimulate honey bee immunity to viral infection. Journal of Economic Entomology.

Richardson L, Adler LS , Leonard AS, Andicoechea J, Regan K, Anthony WE, Manson JS, and RE Irwin. 2015. Secondary metabolites in floral nectar reduce parasite infections in bumble bees. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B 282: 20142471.

Roberts, H.P., D. I., King, and J. Milam . 2017. Factors affecting bee communities in forest openings and adjacent mature forest. Forest Ecology and Management 394:111-122.

Suni, S.S., Z. Scott, A. Averill , and A. Whitely. 2017. Population genetics of wild and managed pollinators: implications for crop pollination and the genetic integrity of wild bees. Conservation Genetics 10.1007/s10592-017-0955-5

Xu, G., E.Palmer-Young, K. Skyrm, T. Daly, M. Sylvia, A. Averill and S. Rich. Triplex Real-Time PCR for detection of Crithidia mellificae and Lotmaria passim in honey bees. J. Invertebrate Pathology (submitted)