Really useful advice from Victoria J. MacPhail, PhD on how to plan & plant your #pollinator garden: youtube.com/watch?v=v4Di90… It will look great & help support #bees, #butterflies, flowerflies & lots of other important wildlife. Get out & have fun in the garden! 🐝🦋🐞🌻🌺🌼

So which species is the most abundant visitor to pumpkin flowers in Ontario (19 farms, 6 am-noon, July 15-Aug. 30, 2016-2019)...you guessed it...E. pruinosa by a long shot! academic.oup.com/ee/advance-art…

Prof Miriam Richards (@richardsmiriam1), Prof Nigel Raine (Nigel Raine), Dr Susan Chan (Susan Chan), Cécile Antoine (Cecile Antoine) and their many colleagues are doing incredible build our understanding of bee ecology, behaviour and more!

I'd love to have a copy of this...

Well, that's a smart strategy...as the old poem says, "Little fleas have lesser fleas upon their backs to bite them. Lesser fleas have smaller fleas, and so ad infinitum!"

Stunningly beautiful

Just out...our work comparing phenology of Cucurbita crop flowering and hoary squash bee emergence in Ontario: doi.org/10.1016/j.cris… Raine Lab Nigel Raine

Had so much fun shooting an episode of Leo's Pollinators with TVO last August--airing this September. TVO Leo's Explorer Club did such a great job introducing the squash bee to kids! More closer to the airing date!

Looking for well-balanced useful guides to protecting pollinators on crops? So proud of the cucurbit crop guide. See pollinatorpartnership.ca/en/ag-guides

Great news to wake up to: 2nd PhD #thesis chapter #accepted! Happy Monday to me and co-authors Nicolas Baert, Scott McArt (Department of Entomology@Cornell University), and Nigel Raine! 🎉

Hoary squash bees knock pollen off Cucurbita anthers where it gathers in the base of the corolla...no use to bees or to the Cucurbita. BUT ants sure use it! Thks for the video Patricia Nunes Silva!

Way to go Alana Pindar!

So pleased to be testing an Ontario facility for overwintering honey bee nucleus colonies and banking queens--kudos to Kawartha Lakes Honey for sharing their innovative system.

Bombus terricola nesting in an abandoned mouse nest made from leaves and feathers in an old honey bee hive at my place...and lots of B. fervidus individuals around the hive too. Has anyone ever tested if queens are attracted to the smell of mouse when looking for a nest?

How do the insecticides imidacloprid and cyantraniliprole affect bumblebee movements and behaviour? Dr. Amanda Liczner (School of Environmental Sciences), is hoping to find out! She and her team are using radio tracker 'backpacks' to monitor the movements of bumblebee queens. news.uoguelph.ca/2022/08/bees-d…

Here are the number of published datasets we found by crop for 4 regions of N.A.doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.…

# of wild bee species found by crop with nesting guild categories...ground nesters are most common guild. Shouldn't we be paying more attention to them? doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.…

Hot off the press: Promoting Pollination and Pollinators in Farming. BDS Publishing. shop.bdspublishing.com/store/bds/deta…