Nest aggregations of wild bees and apoid wasps in urban pavements: a “street life” to be promoted in urban planning

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Noël GrégoireORCID,Van Keymeulen Violette,Barbier YvanORCID,Smets Sylvie,Van Damme Olivier,Colinet GillesORCID,Ruelle Julien,Francis FrédéricORCID

Abstract

AbstractIn the last 10 years, knowledges of wild bees and apoid wasps’ community dynamics have gained interest in urban ecology focusing on the availability of floral resources in cities. Although understudied, the urban environment impacts the conditions of their nesting sites. Recent observations in the Brussels-Capital Region (Belgium) showed that urban pavements can be a novel nesting opportunity for Hymenoptera ground-nesting species such as wild bees and apoid wasps. Here, using citizen science, we investigated the richness of ground-nesting species living under urban pavements, the preferences of the sidewalk joint size related to ground-nesting species size and for sidewalk type or for soils texture under the pavements on the nesting site selection. A total of 22 species belonging to 10 Hymenoptera families of wild bees and digger wasps with their associated kleptoparasites were identified on 89 sites in Brussels. Sandstone setts or concrete slabs with an unbound joint size around 1 cm were found to be best suitable urban pavements for the ground-nesting species. The soil texture under the pavement was highly sandy among our samples. Finally, we also suggest engineering management guidelines to support bee and wasp species nesting under urban pavement in highly urbanized areas. Such observations pave the way for much research in the field of urban ecology to conceive multifunctional pavement promoting biodiversity.

Publisher

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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