**5. Conclusions**

We suggest that decisions about management of urban green areas must be transdisciplinary in decision making and planning. We need engineers and architects that comprehend the importance of including green areas in their projects, and of keeping native vegetation. We need public managers that consider the creation of parks and squares a priority in the city. We must also make residents understand the importance of trees and vegetation for a healthy city and to not exchange vegetation for paving. A bee conservation program in urban areas should include the management of plants that provide resources for bees and other pollinators in abundance all year. Creating and maintaining of urban parks with more vegetation cover is important to maintain the milder climate and increase the diversity of essential animals, such as pollinators and seed dispersers, in the urban area. This vision constitutes two of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): item 15, which deals with terrestrial life and aims to protect, recover and promote the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, stop and reverse the degradation of the Earth and stop the loss of biodiversity, and item 11, which deals with cities and sustainable communities to make urban spaces and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable. This work considers that the planned urban policies, considering other organisms besides human beings, can lessen the negative impacts of rapid urbanization. A new way of looking at the city is the one that considers man as part of the ecosystem and that by conserving other species will be conserving its quality of life in the urban environment.

**Author Contributions:** M.C.G. and S.G.A. conceived the ideas and designed the methodology; S.G.A. collected the data; M.C.G. and S.G.A. analyzed the data; S.G.A. and M.C.G. wrote the paper. All authors contributed critically to the drafts. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

**Funding:** This research was funded by CNPq (303894/2018-0) and FAPERJ (203.321/2017), and SGA was funded by Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior-Brasil (CAPES)— Finance Code 001.

**Institutional Review Board Statement:** Fieldwork and laboratory procedures were in compliance with CEUA—Ethical Committee for the use of animals' law n◦ 11.794/08, invertebrates don't require authorization.

**Informed Consent Statement:** Not applicable.

**Data Availability Statement:** The data available in this study are available on request from the corresponding author. The data are not publicly available due to needing further use.

**Acknowledgments:** We thank the graduation Program of Ecology and Natural Resources from Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro. We also thank Campos dos Goytacazes city hall for the permission to study in public areas, Janie Mendes Jasmim for the help in plant identification, Caique Barcelos da Silva for field help, Camila Priante for making the location map and Lucas Carneiro e Lazaro Carneiro for statistical analysis help. This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior-Brasil (CAPES)—Finance Code 001. M.C.G. thanks CNPq (303894/2018-0) and FAPERJ (203.321/2017) for financial support.

**Conflicts of Interest:** The authors declare no conflict of interest.
