Peer-Reviewed Publications

  1. Koch JBU, Sim SB, Scheffler B, Geib S, Smith TA. Accepted. Chromosome-scale genome assembly of the rusty patched bumble bee, Bombus affinis (Cresson), an endangered North American pollinator. G3.
  2. Strange JP, Tripodi AD, Lindsay, T-TT, Herndon JD, Knoblett J, Christman ME, Barkan NP, Koch JBU. Accepted. Variation in North American bumble bee nest success and colony sizes under captive rearing conditions. Journal of Insect Science.
  3. Janousek WM, Douglas MR, Cannings S, Clément MA, Delphia CM, Everett JG, Hatfield RG, Keinath DA, Koch JBU, McCabe LM, Mola JM, Ogilvie JE, Rangwala I, Richardson LL, Rohde AT, Strange JP, Tronstad LM, Graves TA.  2023. Recent and future declines of historically widespread pollinator linked to climate, landcover, and pesticides. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120(5): e22122320. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2211223120.
  4. Koch JBU, Branstetter MG, Cox-Foster DL, Knoblett J, Lindsay TTT, Pitts-Singer TL, Rohde A, Strange JP, Tobin KB. 2023. Novel microsatellite markers for Osmia lignaria (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), a North American pollinator of agricultural crops and wildland plants. Journal of Insect Science. DOI: 10.1093/jisesa/ieac077.
  5. Christman ME, Spears LR, Koch JBU, Lindsay TTT, Strange JP, Barnes CL, Ramirez RA. 2022. Captive rearing success and critical thermal maxima of Bombus griseocollis (Hymenoptera: Apidae): a candidate for commercialization? Journal of Insect Science, 22(6): 1 - 8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieac064
  6. Koch JBU, Cane, J. 2022. Pollen columns and a wax canopy in a first nest description of Bombus (Cullumanobombus) morrisoni (Apidae). Apidologie. DOI : 10.1007/s13592-022-00943-4.
  7. Montero-Castaño, A, Koch JBU, Lindsay TTT, Love B, Mola JM, Sharkey JK. 2022. Pursuing best practices for minimizing wild bee captures to support biological research. Conservation Science and Practice. http://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12734.
  8. McGill BM, Borrelle SB, Wu GC, Ingeman KE, Koch JBU, Barnd NB. 2022. Words are monuments: Patterns in US national park place perpetuate settler colonial mythologies including white supremacy. People and Nature. http://doi.org/10.1002/pan3.10302.
  9. ​Koch JBU, King CBA, Lindsay TT, Matsunaga JN, Mossman BN. 2022. The interception of Bombus impatiens Cresson, 1863 found in imported produced purchased in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. Proceedings of the Hawaiian Entomological Society, 54: 37-40.
  10. Spears LR, Christman ME, Koch JBU, Looney C, Ramirez RA. 2021. A review of bee captures in pest monitoring traps and future directions for research and collaboration. Journal of Integrated Pest Management, 12(1) 49: 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1093/jipm/pmab041. 
  11. Curbelo K, Price DK, Koch JBU. 2021. A brief assessment of Drosophila suzukii (Diptera: Drosophilidae) abundance in forest and non-forested habitats across an altitude gradient on Mauna Loa, Hawai'i. Pacific Science, 75(4): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.2984/75.4.4. 
  12. Jardeleza M-KG, Koch JBU, Pearse I, Ghalambor C, Hufbauer R. 2021. The roles of phenotypic plasticity and adaptation in morphology and performance of an invasive species in a novel habitat. Ecological Entomology.  https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13087. 
  13. Koch JBU, Tabor JA, Montoya-Aiona K, Eiben JA. 2021. The invasion of Megachile policaris (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) to Hawai‘i. Journal of Insect Science, 21(5) 4; 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieab065.
  14. Koch JBU, McCabe LM, Love BG, Cox-Foster D. 2021. Genetic and usurpation data support high incidence of bumble bee nest invasion by socially parasitic bumble bee, Bombus insularis. Journal of Insect Science, 21(5) 3; 1 - 7. https://doi.org/10.1093/jisesa/ieab063. 
  15. Hatfield RG, Strange JP, Koch JB, Jepsen S, Stapleton I. 2021. Neonicotinoid pesticides cause mass fatalities of native bumble bees: A case study from Wilsonville, Oregon, United States. Environmental Entomology, nvab059, https://doi.org/10.1093/33/nvab059.
  16. Tabor J, Koch JB. 2021. Ensemble models predict invasive bee habitat suitability will expand under future climate scenarios in Hawai‘i. Insects, 12(5): 443, https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12050443.
  17. Martínez-López O, Koch JB, Martínez-Morales MA, Navarrete-Gutiérrez D, Enríquez E, Vandame R. 2021. Potential distribution of bumblebees (Apidae: Bombus) in Mesoamerica based on different climate change scenarios: conservation implications. Global Change Biology, doi: 10.1111/gcb.15559.
  18. Borelle SB*, Koch JB,* Ingeman KE, McGill BM, Lambert MR, Dudney J, Chang CH, Teffer AK, Wu GW. 2020. What does it mean to be for a Place? *contributed equally as co-first authors. Pacific Conservation Biology, doi:   10.1071/PC20015.
  19. Graves TA*, Janousek WM*, Gaulke S, Nicholas A, Keinath D, Bell C, Cannings S, Koch JB, Loffland HL, Richardson L, Rohde A, Rykken J, Strange JP, Tronstead L, Sheffield C, Heron JM, Sikes D. 2020. Western bumble bee:  Declines in United States and range-wide information gaps. *contributed equally as co-first authors. Ecosphere, 11(6): e03141.
  20. Wilson J, Pan, AD, General DEM, Koch JB. 2020. More eyes on the prize: an observation of a very rare, threatened species of Philippine Bumble bee, Bombus irisanensis, on iNaturalist and the importance of citizen science in conservation biology. Journal of Insect Conservation, doi:10.1007/s10841-020-00233-3.
  21. Koch JB, Dupuis J, Jardeleza M, Ouedraogo N, Geib S, Follett P, Price D. 2020. Population and phenotype diversity of invasive Drosophila suzukii in Hawai‘i. 2020. Biological Invasions,  doi:10.1007/s10530-020-02217-5.
  22. Baur, A, Strange, JP, Koch JB. 2019. Foraging ecology of the Hunt bumble bee, a viable pollinator for commercialization. Environmental Entomology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvz075.
  23. Koch JB, General, DE. 2018. A preliminary assessment of bumble bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) habitat suitability across protected and unprotected areas in the Philippines. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/aesa/say046. 
  24. Koch JB, Rodriguez J, Pitts J, Strange J. 2018. Phylogeny and population genetic analyses reveals cryptic speciation in the Bombus fervidus species complex (Hymenoptera: Apidae). PLoS ONE 13(11): e0207080. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207080
  25. Koch JB, Vandame R, Mérida-Rivas J, Sagot P, Strange J. 2018. Quaternary climate instability is correlated with patterns of population genetic variability in Bombus huntii. Ecology & Evolution, doi, https://doi.org/10.1002/ ece3.4294: 1–16. 
  26. Jackson, J, Pimsler, M, Oyen, K, Koch JB, Herndon, J, Strange, J, Dillon, M, Lozier, J. 2018. Distance, elevation, and environment as drivers of diversity and divergence in bumble bees across latitude and altitude. Molecular Ecology, doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14735: 1 - 44.
  27. Koch JB, Looney C, Sheppard WS, Strange, JP. 2017. Patterns of population genetic structure and diversity across bumble bee communities in the Pacific Northwest. Conservation Genetics, doi: 10.1007/s10592-017-0944-8. 
  28. Spears L, Looney C, Ikerd H, Koch JB, Griswold T, Strange JP, Ramirez RA. 2016. Pheromone lure and trap color affects by-catch in agricultural landscapes in Utah. Environmental Entomology, doi: 10.1093/ee/nvw085: 1 - 8.
  29. Koch JB, Looney C, Sheppard WS, Strange JP. 2016. Range extension of two bumble bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae) in Olympic National Park. Northwest Science, 90(2): 228 - 234.  
  30. Rhoades P, Koch JB, Strange JP, Waits L, Eigenbrode, S. 2016 . Evidence for Bombus occidentalis (Hymenoptera: Apidae) populations in the Olympic Peninsula, the Palouse Prairie, and Forests of Northern Idaho. Journal of Insect Science, 16: 1 - 5. 
  31. Koch JB,  Lozier J, Strange J, Ikerd H, Griswold T,  Cordes N, Solter L, Stewart I,  Cameron SA. 2015 . USBombus, a database of contemporary survey data for North American Bumble Bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus) distributed in the United States. Biodiversity Data Journal, 3: e6833. doi: 10.3897.
  32. Koch JB, Love B, Klinger E, Strange JP. 2014. The effect of sun exposure on bee (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) setae color and its implications for studying aging and behavior. Journal of Melittology, 38: 1-9.
  33. Orr M, Koch JB, Griswold T, Pitts JP. 2014. The Re-Evaluation of the Specific Status of a Solitary Bee, Anthophora (Heliophila) curta (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Zootaxa, 3846 (3): 411-429.
  34. Holden AR, Koch JB, Erwin DM, Griswold T, Hall J. 2014. Leafcutter Bee Nests and Pupae from the Rancho La Brea Tar Pits of southern California: Implications for understanding the paleoenvironment of the Late Pleistocene. PLoS ONE, 9(4): e94724. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0094724. 
  35. Strange J, Baur A, Koch JB. 2013. A scientific note on Bombus (Psithyrus) insularis invasions of bumble bee nests and honey bee hives in the western United States. Apidologie, 45: 554 – 556. 
  36. Lozier J, Strange J, Koch JB. 2013. Landscape heterogeneity predicts gene flow in a widespread polymorphic bumble bee, Bombus bifarius (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Conservation Genetics, 14(5): 1099-1110. 
  37. Koch JB, Sahli HF. 2012. Patterns of flower visitation across elevation and succession gradients in Hawai’i. Pacific Science, 67(2): 253 – 266. 
  38. Koch JB, Strange JP. 2012. The status of Bombus occidentalis and B. moderatus in Alaska with special focus on Nosema bombi incidence. Northwest Science, 86(3): 212 – 220.​
  39. Strange JP, Koch JB, Gonzalez VH, Nemelka L, Griswold T. 2011. Global invasion by Anthidium manicatum (Linnaeus) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): assessing potential distribution in North America and beyond. Biological Invasions, 13: 2115 – 2133. 
  40. Cameron S, Lozier J, Strange J, Koch JB, Cordes N, Solter L, Griswold T. 2011. Patterns of widespread decline in North American bumble bees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108: 662-667. 
  41. Gonzalez VH, Koch JB, Griswold TL. 2010. Anthidium vigintiduopunctatum Friese (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae): The elusive “dwarf bee” of the Galapagos Archipelago? Biological Invasions, 12: 2381-2383.
  42. Koch JB, Strange JP. 2009. Constructing a species database and historic range maps for North American bumble bees (Bombus sensu stricto Latreille) to inform conservation decisions. Uludag Bee Journal, 9(3): 97-108.
  43. Blue JD, Armstrong M, Brym Z, Chandler J, Cheluitte C, Cooley C, Farinas S, Koch JB. 2009. Synthesis and the future of Ecology. Bulletin of the Ecological Society, 90:283–285.

Thesis & Dissertation

  1. Koch JB. 2011. The decline and conservation status of North American bumble bees. M.S. Thesis. Utah State University.
  2. ​Koch JB. 2015. Biogeography, population genetics, and community structure of North American bumble bees. Ph. D. Dissertation. Utah State University.
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