'This is something that can be done anywhere and everywhere, and needs to be done anywhere and everywhere.' Lorraine Johnson and Sheila Colla (Sheila Colla, Ph.D) on the importance of creating habitat for native pollinators nationalpost.com/entertainment/…

I absolutely adore the beauty of summer. Unexpected Northern blue find today was just pure joy.

Working on my final report for MN ENRTF funded project and want to highlight some #pollinator education resources we produced at the UMN Bee Lab & Squad . Sign up for access to the digital Pollinator Education Toolkit including presentations, games and more. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

A draft schedule is now available for #BeeCon 2022, featuring talks about #bees from 36 speakers across 6 continents! Hybrid event runs Oct 13-14, 2022. Free registration ends this Fri, Sept 30 at yorku.ca/bees/beecon-20…. Thanks to our funders: Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change YorkU - Science YorkU VPRI.

Love Minnesota’s environment and natural resources? Want to tell stories about how we work to protect them? Apply to be a Project Analyst and Communications Specialist at the LCCMR! Applications due Oct. 14 by 4:30pm. Job posting here: lcc.mn.gov/jobs/

Two years ago, I noticed serious issues in a paper on bees in the journal PeerJ and I alerted the journal. In an attempt to help correct the scientific record, I have written up a thorough discussion of those issues: link.medium.com/4HxdkiTYStb

Please RT! The Mola Lab seeks graduate students to join us at Colorado State University in Forest and Rangeland Stewardship or CSU_Ecology! Funded positions on bee conservation, insect overwintering, fire ecology, and urban ecology! Interested students fill out this form: forms.gle/KaTcQEihzyd1B8…

I'm talking at 3:00 CST about the MN ENRTF funded work we are wrapping up documenting the bee diversity in Minnesota.

A thread on how not to use iNaturalist . On October 5th I was contacted about an observation of Spotted Lanternfly in the Houston area. This would be a significant range extension and a first for Texas.

Join me next week as I give a The Xerces Society webinar: "We Need to Talk About Honey Bees" Focus: Practical solutions for #pollinator conservation beyond the backyard beehive Spoiler: The backyard beehive is NOT #conservation 10 a.m. PT on 10 Nov. 22 xerces.org/events/oregon/…

SAVE THE DATE!! USGS Public Lecture November 17th, 2022, 6PM PT Endangered Bumble Bees Science on the Threats and Recovery by John Mola, USGS Research Ecologist (Former Employee), Assistant Professor, Colorado State University ow.ly/SZ4j50LqZ5I #bees #ecology

Our new paper: 'Scientists' Warning on Climate Change and Insects' has just come online. Please disseminate it on Twitter! esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

Earth is teeming with unknown species, and they’re dying off faster than ever. Now biologists are battling over an old question: how to catalog life? trib.al/N8BuiEz

Thanks MPR News for the great coverage of the MN ENRTF funded project to document the bees of Minnesota. Minnesota DNR mprnews.org/story/2023/02/…

The Bumble Bee Atlas program is now active in 15 states! To gear up for the field season we’re hosting a nationwide webinar on the ecology and conservation of bumble bees for new and returning Atlas volunteers. Hope you can make it! Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

This was the photo on my phone after I realized that what I had thought I had seen just then was real, a dusted skipper in western Minnesota. This species hasn't been seen in the western prairies in many years.

Huge accomplishment from a collaboration between Minnesota DNR and UMN Entomology Dept with funding from MN ENRTF

We're hiring! The LCCMR is looking for TWO Project Analyst and Grant Monitoring Specialists to support #mnenrtf grants that protect and enhance MN's environment. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until July 24, 2023. For more info, visit bit.ly/lccmrMN.

Really great messages of hope in this.

I am recruiting! Looking to hire a postdoc & researcher this Fall, and PhD student to start Fall ’24.  If you love a mix of genomics, mol/cell bio, evolution, cool microbes, and/or reproduction please check these opportunities. More info can be found here lindseylab.org/opportunities/