Rebanks Family Chair in Pollinator Conservation, Professor at the University of Guelph. 🐝 Studies wild #pollinator #behaviour, #ecology & #conservation. 🦋 🇨🇦🇬🇧 He/him/his https://1in3mouthfuls.org
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...
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
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.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...
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
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
Cognitive tasks could be biased towards generalists: a lesson from wild non-eusocial #bees. In this work, led by Tovah Kashetsky, specialist 🐝s were more hesitant to continue interacting with novel stimuli. Check out the #OA paper in @behavecol.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1093/behe... #ProudCoSupervisor
Our survey of #bees & #wasps visiting #soybean flowers is out: doi.org/10.4039/tce..... This work shows most 🐝s visiting soy🌼s carried soy pollen. #Bumblebees & ground-nesting 🐝s were the most common 🌼visitors suggesting that management practices supporting these #pollinators will benefit 🇨🇦growers
Exciting opportunity to bee-come the new Assistant or Associate Professor in Apiculture/Honey #Bee Biology @uofguelph.bsky.social 🇨🇦. Assessment of applications will begin on April 16. Full info about the faculty position & application process: careers.uoguelph.ca/job/Guelph-A... Please share widely!
New paper "Avenues towards reconciling wild & managed #bee proponents" led by Alex Beaurepaire. Hopefully a useful addition to discussions about the risks posed by managed bees to wild bees, highlighting knowledge gaps that hinder development of evidence-based policies: www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...