Essig Museum

INTRODUCTION Click-beetles (Elateridae), the second largest elateriform family (Polyphaga: Elateriformia), encompass >10,000 species (Costa et al., 2010). As a ubiquitous group, they capture the attention of nature enthusiasts and researchers alike, attracting taxonomists, evolutionary biologists, conservationists and plant protection experts (Douglas, 2011; Molder et al., 2019; Traugott et al., 2015).

Timed bee sampling in plots All sweep-net sampling occurred between 11:45 am and 5:00 pm, which was when we observed peak bee activity at blooms. Sampling only occurred when temperatures were above 18°C, and wind speeds were below 3.6 m/s. Plots were sampled continuously for 30 min by a single person with a sweep net, and any bee that landed on any flower part (petals, anthers, stigma, petioles) of any bloom within the bee sampling plot was captured.

Handling Editor: JBI Editorial Office 1 INTRODUCTION Biogeography is inherently a search for patterns and processes that link the local occurrences of organisms (often, but not solely, species [Mishler, 2023]) with local, regional and global drivers of their dynamics. Increasingly, such information is critical for informing biodiversity conservation and management decisions in the current period of extreme global change.