Sofia Dartnell

Bee lover, PhD student @CamZoology, @Gates_Cambridge scholar 🐝

[Sofia Dartnell @pollinatorpal]

Thank you so much @Jamie_C_Weir ! It was delightful speaking about my recent cuckoo behavioral choice experiments at #Ento24 @RoyEntSoc

[Jamie C. Weir @Jamie_C_Weir]

Excellent, elegant experimental design and brilliant talk from @pollinatorpal, showing that cuckoo #bumblebees can use scent to find target colonies to parasitise! 🐝

Ought to be used as model experiments for undergraduate students!

@RoyEntSoc #Ento24

[Sofia Dartnell @pollinatorpal]

The workshop will be running again next summer and I would highly encourage anyone interested to apply!

https://t.co/s1sS7uNKMP

[Sofia Dartnell @pollinatorpal]

What a joy it was to be back at @RockyMtnBioLab this week diving into the mathematical side of plant-pollinator interactions and discussing how to best integrate theory with data. Thank you to Professors @fevaldovinos , Berri Brosi, and Mark Novak for your time and expertise!

[Prof Phil Stevenson @chickpeaman]

The snail shell nesting Osmia orientalis is more efficient at pollinating strawberries than honeybees - they just need somewhere to nest so Ikuo Kandori reports the use of 3D printed snail shells. @ice2024kyoto_jp #ICE2024

[Rob Waterhouse also @rmwaterhouse.bsky.social @rmwaterhouse]

Whole-#genome resequencing of 77 wild & domestic Bombus terrestris 🐝 #bumblebees from #Asia & #Europe: genetic differentiation, substantial trait differences, demographic analyses show Ne variation with climate change, #gene selection for Asian habitats
https://t.co/lvAqxvm6sY

[Margarita Lopez-Uribe @mmlopezu]

Bumble bees 🐝are assumed to be monogamous. What are the consequences of violations of this assumption for colony abundance estimations? In this study, we explore this question in Bombus impatiens. Led by @sydthebirdy https://t.co/X4D828ZGlU

[Lynn Dicks @LynnDicks]

Join us! We are looking for a PT technician to support the Agroecology lab @CamZoology, working on #pollinator conservation for 3 years, with the @RestPoll project. Apply by 28 August 2024. https://t.co/1ZmegAUbA6

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

Honeybees as workers in a bumblebee colony ... what kind of cross-species interactions happen? New paper by @EricRomeroVet et al. in @Apidologie. Drawing by Meredith Johnson @MeliponiniMere https://t.co/UvttRq3nfp

[Rachael Winfree @rachael_winfree]

1/3 to 2/3 of crop systems studied worldwide would produce higher yield if they had more pollinators (ie, suffer from pollinator limitation). Just published by lab postdoc Katie Turo in Nature Ecology & Evolution - read it here https://t.co/sfPUrGqT18

[Nigel Raine @NigelERaine]

Great that @TovahKashetsky could present her important PhD research on parasite avoidance & nest-site selection in cavity-nesting solitary #bees @CSEE_SCEE @CSEE_Meetings. Great talk, sorry I couldn't 🐝@ #CSEE2024 in person. #Proud #CoSupervisor with Jessica Forrest #Pollinators

[Dr. Akito Kawahara @Dr_Akito]

New study by Juliette Rubin and others showing that #MoonMoth tails are driven by #bat predation. Interestingly, seasonal temperature variation has exerted a nearly equally counterbalancing constraint on hindwing length. #LunaMoth #MoonMoth #evolution
https://t.co/UWIX7Ee2gV

[Nigel Raine @NigelERaine]

Can #bumblebee queens endure periods of inundation while overwintering underground? New Biology Letters paper from Dr. @SabRondeau suggests that hibernating queens can survive up to 1 week submerged under water: https://t.co/hw2IFuhsWY #OpenAccess #Pollinators @RSocPublishing

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

Yesterday at 2pm the first honeybee (Apis mellifera) in this species’ evolutionary history managed to pull a string for reward. They are much harder to train than bumblebees, though!

[Dr Alice Bridges @alicedbridges]

It's finally here! Our new paper, out now in Nature. It's one small step for a bumblebee... and a big leap for human understanding of their cognitive capabilities.
With @LChittka , @AmandaRoyka , and others!!
https://t.co/Rs9osQXS8w

[Hines Lab @Hines_Lab]

A new study by the lab shows heat response in bumble bees is impacted by many factors: Variance in heat tolerance in bumble bees correlates with species geographic range and is associated with several environmental and biological factors https://t.co/XNdqnlqEuV

[Margarita Lopez-Uribe @mmlopezu]

New paper, new knowledge 🐝 Nice study led by @LauraJonesEco published in @Ecol_Evol We quantified heat tolerance and pathogen infections in 14 populations of squash #bee populations and found that... 🧵
@agsciences @huckinstitutes @USDA_NIFA @NSF

https://t.co/5cAburmPYX

[Sofia Dartnell @pollinatorpal]

Excited to be in Coimbra, Portugal for #ECOFLOR2024 ! I’m sharing my recent research assessing our current understanding of bumblebee parasites and their fitness impacts. Come say hello during the poster session!

[Insect Conservation and Diversity @InsectDiversity]

Insects as indicators of Key #Biodiversity Areas: https://t.co/TmUZoPTFZq #OpenAccess #Bumblebees #Hymenoptera @WileyEcolEvol

[Lars Chittka @LChittka]

Amazing behavioural flexibility here, and a healthy antidote to the notion that bees acquire their nutrition by hardwired behaviours

[Sofia Dartnell @pollinatorpal]

Thrilled to have an article about my cuckoo bumblebee research featured in this season’s issue of Buzzword magazine from @BumblebeeTrust 🐝

[Lynn Dicks @LynnDicks]

Featured in Buzzword, magazine of the ⁦⁦@BumblebeeTrust⁩ . Cambridge Agroecology researcher ⁦⁦@pollinatorpal⁩ ⁦@CamZoology⁩