Preliminary investigations of the species composition of the aculeate hymenopteran community in Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve (Hymenoptera, Aculeata)
Journal: Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa”
Year: 2024

The Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve is a unique location, which is an area of posttechnogenic habitat restoration, including the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, where comprehensive surveys of insect diversity have not yet been conducted. The communities of bees, sand wasps, and crabronids represent different functional groups in ecosystems (pollinators, predators, and kleptoparasites), so their taxonomic diversity provides a more complete conception of biodiversity in general. Our