Funded 4-year #PhD position studying the risks and impacts of exposure to soil #pesticide residues on soil dependent #bees based @uofguelph.bsky.social. For more details about the position and how to apply by 21 August: 1in3mouthfuls.org/join-the-team/ Please share & apply! #ProPollSoil #Pollinators

New study, led by Aaron Fairweather, provides a robust method to test impacts of #pesticide exposure on soil-nesting insects. We found substantive negative impacts on ants after soil drench applications of imidacloprid including behavioural changes & increased mortality: doi.org/10.1093/etoj...

New study, led by Ellen Richard, assessing the non-bee strawberry flower visiting community using #metabarcoding. Our results suggest that non-bee species make considerable contributions towards overall strawberry pollination services. Read in full @basicapplecol.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1016/j.ba...

Huge congratulations to Dr. Kiera Newman on successfully defending her PhD thesis on the importance of milkweed for conservation of #pollinators besides Monarch butterflies. #PhDone #ProudSupervisor. Thanks to the excellent exam committee Sandra Rehan @shoshanahjacobs.ca Rob Corry & Neil Rooney!

🦋 PhD position! 🦋 Join a newly funded research partnership working to conserve endangered butterflies in Canada. Details can be found below. @onehealthuofg.bsky.social @uofguelph.bsky.social

We've designed a short UCL summer course for students who are interested in future-facing ecological careers and want to learn more about them. If that's you, come and join us in September! www.ucl.ac.uk/life-science...

🧪 In a study, bumblebee queens were overwintered in refrigerated test tubes - but an experimental mishap led to four tubes accumulating water. 🐝 Now we know that bumblebee 👸 can survive being submerged for a week - which makes sense, because in the wild their burrows may get flooded. 🌍 #WorldBeeDay

@romtoronto.bsky.social opens today, May 16th, Bees: A story of Survival, an immersive exhibition using art & science to help you imagine life from a 🐝's perspective. From the National Museums of Liverpool & Wolfgang Buttress. I'm bee-side myself that my image was chosen for the ads #bees 🐝1/2

If you're attending #CSEE2026 today, please check out Kiera Newman's talk on how milkweed cardenolides might mediate co-evolutionary trade-offs between medicinal benefits and toxicity in #honeybees in BA-2175 at 11:45am! @csee-scee.bsky.social @uofguelph.bsky.social

If you're attending #CSEE2026 tomorrow, please check out Dr. Sabrina Rondeau's talk on the independent and combined effects of winter warming and soil pesticide exposure on diapausing #bumblebee queens in BA1240 at 14:30 @csee-scee.bsky.social @uofguelph.bsky.social @uottawa.ca

Bumblebees are buzzing with Bluetooth trackers at the Arboretum Fifty queen bees are being tracked with Bluetooth technology as part of a research project to determine behavioural differences between commercial and wild bees www.guelphtoday.com/grounded/bum...

Bumblebees are buzzing with Bluetooth trackers at the Arboretum

Fifty queen bees are being tracked with Bluetooth technology as part of a research project to determine behavioural differences between commercial and wild bees

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Think you don’t have enough space for native plants? Think again! Join us to explore what a small habitat can look like and the steps people can take to build their own miniature pollinator haven! 🪴🦋 🗓️Apr 30 at 10am PT / 1pm ET 🔗Register for this free event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

🐝 How does grassland management affect bee #biodiversity and ecosystem health? Read Lightburn et al.'s review in #FACETS ➡️ https://ow.ly/QCnw50YN9sW #Pollinators 📷 Mark Ashford

Les reines bourdons peuvent survivre et respirer sous l'eau pendant des jours. Découvrez comment Sabrina Rondeau a découvert ce phénomène et ses récentes recherches révélant la physiologie qui permet aux reines de survivre immergées sur @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/comment-les-...

Calling all Guelphites! If you're walking, running or cycling at the University of Guelph @uofguelph.bsky.socialArboretum please make sure you have Bluetooth enabled on your phone. Doing this will really help us to collect data on the movement patterns of radiotagged bumble #bee queens #Pollinators

Calling all Guelphites! If you're walking, running or cycling at the University of Guelph @uofguelph.bsky.social Arboretum please make sure you have Bluetooth enabled on your phone. Doing this will really help us to collect data on the movement patterns of radiotagged bumble #bee queens #Pollinators

Grassland management & wild #bee biodiversity: conservation lessons from native & non-native systems in S Ontario. New review, led by Kyr Lightburn, discusses the importance of integrating incentive-based management & targeted restoration in working lands to enhance habitat: doi.org/10.1139/face...

Anthropogenic stressors drive microbiome assembly: a global meta-analysis of #bumblebees. Exciting research, led by Christine Macpherson @uofguelph.bsky.social, reveals the impacts of human-altered environments in shaping the communities of microorganisms in #bee guts: doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

Queen #bumblebees can survive & breathe underwater for days. Read about how Sabrina Rondeau happened upon this phenomenon & her recent findings (with Charles-Antoine Darveau) revealing the physiology explaining how queens are able to survive submerged in @theconversation.com: doi.org/10.64628/AAM...

A descent sized #nesting #aggregation of Anthophora occidentalis in the Avonlea badlands of #Saskatchewan

Did you know that there are over 1030 #species of #bee recorded from #Canada? We keep a tally and catalogue here: www.beesofcanada.com

Here’s a great PhD opportunity in the crossover between humanities and natural history- please repost 🙏 www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...

Cambridge University Library, University Museum of Zoology and the University of Cambridge - Collections Connections Communities

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Curious whether bees can learn non-floral cues to find floral rewards? New paper in Animal Behavior @animbehsociety.bsky.social by @mtcastagna.bsky.social, @jentomology.bsky.social, Ciara Stewart, and myself! We find evidence that bees can learn leaf shape! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Take it or leaf it: bees learn leaf shape as a cue when flower colour is easily learned

Over a century of research has demonstrated that pollinators, such as bees, associatively learn diverse flower cues, including tactile, visual and olf…

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Delighted to announce that Grace McKinney passed her PhD qualifying exam with flying colours today. Fantastic work, well done! #ProudSupervisor. Thanks to your excellent exam committee @soilmicrocanada.bsky.social @emmaallen-vercoe.bsky.social @faisal-moola.bsky.social & Ernesto Guzman

5,000 #students across Canada help map the secret lives of solitary cavity-nesting #bees and #wasps. 🐝This study used #community #science & #metabarcoding to reveal hidden insect interactions. 👇See what they found here: doi.org/10.3897/mbmg... #citizenscience #hymenoptera

Cc: uofguelph.bsky.social, @nigeleraine.bsky.social Or alternatively, check out the study featured on @pensoft.net 's blog: blog.pensoft.net/2026/02/23/5...

5000 Students run ‘bee hotels’ across Canada – DNA reveals who’s checking in | Blog

A study shows students across Canada effectively aid conservation by collecting ecological data through trap nests.

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As the last few years have seen some serious yield challenges in West African cocoa, leading to global price volatility (and noticeable increases in the price of chocolate bars, changes in recipes, etc.), let's think about just one part of this system: pollination. A thread 🧵 [1/]

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📣📣 2-year postdoc position available in my group at the University of Milan (Italy). We are looking for a biologist/entomologist with molecular skills as part of the Horizon ProPollSoil project… | Fab...

📣📣 2-year postdoc position available in my group at the University of Milan (Italy). We are looking for a biologist/entomologist with molecular skills as part of the Horizon ProPollSoil project https:...

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Join us to get advice straight from Xerces staff that have built a pollinator haven in their yards. We’ll cover all the basics, as well as the unexpected lessons that come from years of experience! 🗓️Feb 12 at 10am PT / 1pm ET 🔗Register for this free event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

New DNA metabarcoding results show the distribution of cavity nesting #bees & #wasps, & their food sources, from schools across 🇨🇦. This community science work, led by Sage Handler, reveals network links among plants, #pollinators, parasites, predators & prey doi.org/10.3897/mbmg... @mbmg.pensoft.net