Amazing behavioural flexibility here, and a healthy antidote to the notion that bees acquire their nutrition by hardwired behaviours

A new study by the lab shows heat response in bumble bees is impacted by many factors: Variance in heat tolerance in bumble bees correlates with species geographic range and is associated with several environmental and biological factors onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Insects as indicators of Key #Biodiversity Areas: doi.org/10.1111/icad.1… #OpenAccess #Bumblebees #Hymenoptera Wiley Ecology & Evolution

Excited to be in Coimbra, Portugal for #ECOFLOR2024 ! I’m sharing my recent research assessing our current understanding of bumblebee parasites and their fitness impacts. Come say hello during the poster session!

New paper, new knowledge 🐝 Nice study led by Laura Jones published in Ecology and Evolution We quantified heat tolerance and pathogen infections in 14 populations of squash #bee populations and found that... 🧵 Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Huck Institutes NIFA U.S. National Science Foundation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

It's finally here! Our new paper, out now in Nature. It's one small step for a bumblebee... and a big leap for human understanding of their cognitive capabilities. With Lars Chittka , Amanda Royka , and others!! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Yesterday at 2pm the first honeybee (Apis mellifera) in this species’ evolutionary history managed to pull a string for reward. They are much harder to train than bumblebees, though!

Can #bumblebee queens endure periods of inundation while overwintering underground? New Biology Letters paper from Dr. Sabrina Rondeau, PhD suggests that hibernating queens can survive up to 1 week submerged under water: doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2… #OpenAccess #Pollinators Royal Society Publishing

New study by Juliette Rubin and others showing that #MoonMoth tails are driven by #bat predation. Interestingly, seasonal temperature variation has exerted a nearly equally counterbalancing constraint on hindwing length. #LunaMoth #MoonMoth #evolution biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Great that Tovah Kashetsky could present her important PhD research on parasite avoidance & nest-site selection in cavity-nesting solitary #bees CSEE_SCEE CSEE_Meetings. Great talk, sorry I couldn't 🐝@ #CSEE2024 in person. #Proud #CoSupervisor with Jessica Forrest #Pollinators

1/3 to 2/3 of crop systems studied worldwide would produce higher yield if they had more pollinators (ie, suffer from pollinator limitation). Just published by lab postdoc Katie Turo in Nature Ecology & Evolution - read it here rdcu.be/dMB0x

Honeybees as workers in a bumblebee colony ... what kind of cross-species interactions happen? New paper by Eric Romero et al. in Apidologie. Drawing by Meredith Johnson @MeliponiniMere link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Join us! We are looking for a PT technician to support the Agroecology lab Dept of Zoology, working on #pollinator conservation for 3 years, with the RestPoll project. Apply by 28 August 2024. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/47643/

Bumble bees 🐝are assumed to be monogamous. What are the consequences of violations of this assumption for colony abundance estimations? In this study, we explore this question in Bombus impatiens. Led by Sydney Bird academic.oup.com/jee/article/do…

Whole-#genome resequencing of 77 wild & domestic Bombus terrestris 🐝 #bumblebees from #Asia & #Europe: genetic differentiation, substantial trait differences, demographic analyses show Ne variation with climate change, #gene selection for Asian habitats biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

The snail shell nesting Osmia orientalis is more efficient at pollinating strawberries than honeybees - they just need somewhere to nest so Ikuo Kandori reports the use of 3D printed snail shells. International Congress of Entomology 2024 Kyoto JP #ICE2024

What influences #virus transmission between #pollinators in the field? 👉Our new paper in NatureEcoEvo investigates this using plant-pollinator networks nature.com/articles/s4155… 🌸🐝🌸🐝🌸🐝 Many thanks to my co-authors VOODOO Project Agroscope Ecosystems and Landscape Evolution