Maggie Couvillon
@freelyflyingbees.bsky.social
Associate Professor Pollinator Biologist @ Virginia Tech - and a mom of two - who loves coffee and (more) sleep. Interested in how insect pollinators find food in the landscape, with a special focus on dancing honey bees. She/her
Come have fun with us! Our departement at VT is hiring an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology and Applied Ecology! Check out the job advert here:
careers.entsoc.org/jobs/21758211
careers.entsoc.org/jobs/21758211
Assistant Professor - Agricultural Entomology and Applied Ecology in Blacksburg, VA for Virginia Tech Department of Entomology
Exciting opportunity in Blacksburg, VA for Virginia Tech Department of Entomology as a Assistant ...
careers.entsoc.org
October 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Come have fun with us! Our departement at VT is hiring an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology and Applied Ecology! Check out the job advert here:
careers.entsoc.org/jobs/21758211
careers.entsoc.org/jobs/21758211
Congrats to my former student Dr. Laura McHenry for publishing her last chapter from her Ph.D., a social network analysis that describes how waggle dance information propagates through a hive. www.frontiersin.org/.../frbee.20...
September 22, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Congrats to my former student Dr. Laura McHenry for publishing her last chapter from her Ph.D., a social network analysis that describes how waggle dance information propagates through a hive. www.frontiersin.org/.../frbee.20...
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I'm looking for a graduate student (either PhD or master's) to join my lab starting Jan 2026. If you know any students in social behavior and evolution (and termites!), please let them know!
August 12, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I'm looking for a graduate student (either PhD or master's) to join my lab starting Jan 2026. If you know any students in social behavior and evolution (and termites!), please let them know!
Reposted by Maggie Couvillon
The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4)
🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳
🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳
USGS Bee Lab at the Eastern Ecological Science Center
The USGS Bee Lab supports research on native bees. As part of that program we and our co-located USFWS partners develop identification tools and keys for native bee species, take public access hi reso...
www.usgs.gov
May 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4)
🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳
🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳
When a resource hotspot, identified by waggle dancing bees, is developed by humans, how does that alter the foraging dynamics of honey bees ? Check out our new paper, where Rob Ostrom and collaborator/husband Roger Schürch took a before/after snapshot of bee landscape use.
doi.org/10.1242/bio....
doi.org/10.1242/bio....
May 16, 2025 at 2:34 PM
When a resource hotspot, identified by waggle dancing bees, is developed by humans, how does that alter the foraging dynamics of honey bees ? Check out our new paper, where Rob Ostrom and collaborator/husband Roger Schürch took a before/after snapshot of bee landscape use.
doi.org/10.1242/bio....
doi.org/10.1242/bio....
Do foraging bees from adjacent colonies converge or partition resources? Check out our new paper, where former student Brad Ohlinger and collaborator/husband Roger Schürch performed statistical wizardry on 8000+ waggle dances from 9 colonies to investigate. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
May 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Do foraging bees from adjacent colonies converge or partition resources? Check out our new paper, where former student Brad Ohlinger and collaborator/husband Roger Schürch performed statistical wizardry on 8000+ waggle dances from 9 colonies to investigate. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The herbicide glyphosate is globally ubiquitous. Here we report in a new paper on the sublethal effects to the behavior and brains of bees, a non-target organism that might encounter the herbicide while foraging in agricultural landscapes. Photo creds LC McHenry & R Schurch
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
May 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The herbicide glyphosate is globally ubiquitous. Here we report in a new paper on the sublethal effects to the behavior and brains of bees, a non-target organism that might encounter the herbicide while foraging in agricultural landscapes. Photo creds LC McHenry & R Schurch
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Funded 5 year postdoc doing super cool, weird stuff to insects to investigate their decision making.
April 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Funded 5 year postdoc doing super cool, weird stuff to insects to investigate their decision making.
Dancing honey bees have individual styles (calibrations) in distance communication, and this individuality underpins recruitment success. Check out our paper in Curr Biol demonstrating that, like so many things, variation is key to success. Photo creds LC McHenry & R Schurch.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
February 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Dancing honey bees have individual styles (calibrations) in distance communication, and this individuality underpins recruitment success. Check out our paper in Curr Biol demonstrating that, like so many things, variation is key to success. Photo creds LC McHenry & R Schurch.
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...
doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...