Some cool work that my (former, now fully minted) Ph.D. student @twoleglaura.bsky.social did on the impacts of herbicide on honey bee behavior and brains when she was in my lab. This study was published last year, but it got some renewed interest today. Great stuff, Laura! phys.org/news/2026-04...

How a common herbicide affects honeybee brains and behavior

Cultivating flowering plants for pollinator gardens, commercial farms, or home landscapes often relies on the use of herbicides to manage unwanted weeds. Honeybees are attracted to these locations and...

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If you are interested in bee immunology, come to Virginia Tech! Dr. Enakshi Gosh is hiring a post-doc. More details here: jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/postdoc...

Postdoctoral Associate - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

Job Description The Ghosh Lab is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Associate to work on a research project investigating immune priming and disease dynamics in bumble bees. The successful cand...

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We are searching for a new Department Head of Entomology at Virginia Tech. Come work in lovely Blacksburg with some pretty cool people and spectatular students. Please repost and spread the word. Review Date 4/26/26. jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/profess...

Professor and Department Head, Entomology - Blacksburg, Virginia, United States

Job Description Virginia Tech seeks applications and nominations for the position of Professor and Head of the Department of Entomology, a tenured twelve-month academic and administrative appointmen...

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A New Toy for Serious Science Allows for Individual Honey Bee Forager Tracking. Read about exciting work from Stentiford, Harrap et al. from the Straw lab that delivered a decisive one–two punch to the long-standing challenge of tracking foraging honey bees. authors.elsevier.com/a/1mkeE3QW8S...

Come have fun with us! Our departement at VT is hiring an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology and Applied Ecology! Check out the job advert here: careers.entsoc.org/jobs/21758211

Assistant Professor - Agricultural Entomology and Applied Ecology in Blacksburg, VA for Virginia Tech Department of Entomology

Exciting opportunity in Blacksburg, VA for Virginia Tech Department of Entomology as a Assistant ...

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Congrats to my former student Dr. Laura McHenry for publishing her last chapter from her Ph.D., a social network analysis that describes how waggle dance information propagates through a hive. www.frontiersin.org/.../frbee.20...

I'm looking for a graduate student (either PhD or master's) to join my lab starting Jan 2026. If you know any students in social behavior and evolution (and termites!), please let them know!

The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4) 🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳

USGS Bee Lab at the Eastern Ecological Science Center

The USGS Bee Lab supports research on native bees. As part of that program we and our co-located USFWS partners develop identification tools and keys for native bee species, take public access hi reso...

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When a resource hotspot, identified by waggle dancing bees, is developed by humans, how does that alter the foraging dynamics of honey bees ? Check out our new paper, where Rob Ostrom and collaborator/husband Roger Schürch took a before/after snapshot of bee landscape use. doi.org/10.1242/bio....

Do foraging bees from adjacent colonies converge or partition resources? Check out our new paper, where former student Brad Ohlinger and collaborator/husband Roger Schürch performed statistical wizardry on 8000+ waggle dances from 9 colonies to investigate. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The herbicide glyphosate is globally ubiquitous. Here we report in a new paper on the sublethal effects to the behavior and brains of bees, a non-target organism that might encounter the herbicide while foraging in agricultural landscapes. Photo creds LC McHenry & R Schurch doi.org/10.1242/jeb....

Funded 5 year postdoc doing super cool, weird stuff to insects to investigate their decision making.

Dancing honey bees have individual styles (calibrations) in distance communication, and this individuality underpins recruitment success. Check out our paper in Curr Biol demonstrating that, like so many things, variation is key to success. Photo creds LC McHenry & R Schurch. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...