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...

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!

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 🪲🪳

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.
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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....

Also the not having time I totally get! The air quotes around read? I’m less sure about that 😂

The title says it all - (a single three hour) sublethal glyphosate exposure decreases honey bee foraging and alters balance of biogenic amines in the brain.

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
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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.
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