Publications

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Strange, J., López-Uribe, M.M., Whiteman, L., Danforth, B.N., Jha, S., Levenson, H.K., Du Clos, B., Koch, J., and Woodard, S.H. (2025). Standardized protocol for collecting bee samples for internal parasite and pathogen data. Journal of Melittology, 123. doi: 10.17161/jom.vi123.22598

López-Uribe, M.M., Strange, J.P., Whiteman, L., Danforth, B.N., Jha, S., Branstetter, M.G., Berenguer Uhuad Koch, J., Levenson, H.K., Du Clos, B., and Woodard, S.H. (2025). Standardized protocol for collecting bee samples to generate molecular data. Journal of Melittology, 123. doi: 10.17161/jom.vi123.22596

Cariveau, D.P., Hung, K.L.J., Williams, N.M., Inouye, D.W., Burns, C.T., Lane, I.G., Irwin, R.E., Levenson, H.K., Du Clos, B., and Woodard, S.H. (2025). Standardized protocols for collecting data on bee-flower interactions and the associated floral community. Journal of Melittology, 123. doi: 10.17161/jom.vi123.23861

Levenson, H.K., Messinger Carril, O., Turley, N.E., Maffei, C., LeBuhn, G., Griswold, T., Williams, N.M., Hung, J.K.L., Irwin, R.E., Du Clos, B., and Woodard, S.H. (2025). Standardized protocol for collecting community-level bee data. Journal of Melittology, 123. doi: 10.17161/jom.vi123.22649

Du Clos, B., Seltmann, K.C., Turley, N.E., Maffei, C., Tucker, E.M., Lane, I.G., Levenson, H.K., and Woodard, S.H. (2025). Improving the standardization of wild bee occurrence data: Towards a formal wild bee data standard. Journal of Melittology, 123. doi: 10.17161/jom.vi123.23163

Levenson, H.K., Du Clos, B., Smith, T.A., Jepsen, S., Everett, J.E., Williams, N.M., and Woodard, S.H. (2025). A call for standardization in wild bee data collection and curation. Journal of Melittology, 123. doi: 10.17161/jom.vi123.22533

Beckwith, K.M., Burrack, H.J., Flanagan, M., Wiggins, G., and Levenson, H.K. (2025) Temporal and spatial distribution of Leptopilina (Hymenoptera: Figitidae) species in Southeastern United States blackberries. Journal of Economic Entomology. doi: 10.1039/jee/toaf152

Levenson, H.K., Van Timmeren, S., Babu, A., Isaacs, R., Sial, A.A., Walton, Vaughn, and Burrack, H.J. (2025) Crop edge sampling and early life stage detection for improved monitoring of spotted-wing drosphila (Drosophila suzukii) in berry crops. Journal of Economic Entomology. doi: 10.1093/jee/toaf122

Levenson, H.K., Tembroke, L., Mollet, K., Zink, F., and Tarpy, D.R. (2025) Redefining the geographic distribution of two cryptic Halictus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) species in the eastern United States. Ecology and Evolution, 15: e71570. doi: 10.1002/ece3.71570

Gariepy, T.D., Abram, P.K., Adams, C., Beal, D., Beers, E., Beetle, J., Biddinger, D., Brind’Amour, G., Bruin, A., Buffington, M., Burrack, H., Daane, K.M., Demchak, K., Fanning, P., Gillett, A., Hamby, K., Hoelmer, K., Hogg, B., Isaacs, R., Johnson, B., Lee, J.C., Levenson, H.K., Loeb, G., Lovero, A., Milnes, J.M., Park, K.R., Prade, P., Regan, K., Renkema, J.M., Rodriguez-Saona, C., Neupane, S., Jones, C., Sial, A., Smythman, P., Stout, A., Van Timmeren, S., Walton, V.M., Wilson, J.K., & Wang, X. (2024) Widespread establishment of adventive populations of Leptopilina japonica (Hymenoptera, Figitidae) in North America and development of a multiplex PCR assay to identify key parasitoids of Drosophila suzukii (Diptera, Drosophilidae). NeoBiota, 93: 63-90. doi: 10.3897/neobiota.93.121219

Hannah K. Levenson and Hannah J. Burrack. (2024) Pollinator communities in a blackberry cropping system under intense pest management. Acta Horticulturae. doi: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2024.1388.30

Hannah K. Levenson, Bradley N. Metz, and David R. Tarpy. (2024) Effects of study design parameters on estimates of bee abundance and richness in agroecosystems: a meta-analysis. Annals of the ESA. doi: 10.1093/aesa/saae001

Selina A., Elsa Youngsteadt, April Hamblin Cherveny, Jessica Kettenback, Hannah K. Levenson, Danesha Seth Carley, Jaime A. Collazo, and Rebecca E. Irwin. (2023) Bee species richness varies through time in an urbanizing landscape of the southeastern USA. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/gcb.17060

Hannah K. Levenson and David R. Tarpy. (2023) Planted pollinator habitat in agroecosystems: how does the pollinator community respond? Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution: 11. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2023.1060834

Hannah K. Levenson and David R. Tarpy. (2022) Effects of planted pollinator habitat on pathogen prevalence and interspecific detection between bee species. Scientific Reports: 12(7806). doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-11734-3

Hannah K. Levenson, April E. Sharp, and David R. Tarpy (2022) Evaluating the impact of increased pollinator habitat on bee visitation and yield metrics in soybean crops.Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment: 133(107901). doi: 10.1016/j.agee.2022.107901

Hannah Levenson and Elsa Youngsteadt (2019) The Bees of North Carolina: An Identification Guide. NCSU Extension. https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/the-bees-of-north-carolina-identification-guide