Congrats to Dr. Alex Walton Amy Lynn Toth and Adam Dolezal on their recent publication investigating how the nutritional environment of honey bee larvae affects their response to IAPV as adults. Check it out! #honeybeeresearch #honeybees #virology #bees #pollinators

Excited to officially announce my 1st federal grant! I am now a Dept. of Agriculture postdoctoral research fellow ❤🐝 Over the next two years I'll be investigating the interactive effects of nutrition and pesticides on queen #honeybee health. 😁 #honeybeeresearch #bees #beehealth #postdoclife

It's been a rewarding summer with all the undergraduates and their amazing projects. So glad to have been a mentor to Bridget Dwyer. She did an excellent job on her presentation.

Our newest book “Common Bees of Eastern North America” comes out later this month. To celebrate we decided to give some books away. #giveaway How to enter: 1. follow us on twitter 2. retweet this announcement We will select a winner in 1 week (Wednesday September 15th).

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Congrats to Ashley St. Clair, PhD on this new publication! “Agroecosystem landscape diversity shapes wild bee communities independent of managed honey bee presence” With Adam Dolezal and Matt ONeal and Ge Zhang! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S01…

Effects of Flower Patch Density on Pollinator Visitation academic.oup.com/ee/advance-art…

Check out my new paper on hive wrapping w/ Adam Dolezal! Covering your colonies over the winter can reduce the consumption of food stores and increase survival by nearly 23% in a moderate temperate climate. #honeybee #beehealth #pollinators #honeybeeresearch journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Great job Bridget. Mentoring you through this project has been such a pleasure. I'm so proud of your hard work and of you!

Great job presenting the results of your distinction work, Hannah. Mentoring you has been such a pleasure. I'm so proud of your accomplishments in the lab. Can't wait to see what you do next!

Great job Linnie. She presented the results of her work looking at how pesticide filtering from diet alters honey bee hypopharyngeal glands. Proud to have mentored her through this journey. #honeybeeresearch #honeybee #uiuc #beeresearch #pollinators

[#Entomology] 🐝 Revision of the Nearctic species of the Lasioglossum (Dialictus) gemmatum species complex (#Hymenoptera: Halictidae) ✒️ Joel Gardner & Jason Gibbs from (UM Ag&Food Sciences) 🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20… #Dialictus #Halictidae #Apoidea #newspecies #wildbees #bees