Bioindicators for a sustainable future: dancing honey bees communicate habitats’ ability to feed pollinators

last updated: Thu Aug 17, 2023

In collaboration with PI Dr. Couvillon and her team, we are studying the use of bees-as-bioindicators for landscape health.

Publications

  1. TN Steele, R Schürch, BD Ohlinger, MJ Couvillon (2022). Apple orchards feed honey bees during, but even more so after, bloom. Ecosphere 13 (9), e4228.
  2. BD Ohlinger, R Schürch, MR Silliman, TN Steele, MJ Couvillon (2022). Dance-communicated distances support nectar foraging as a supply-driven system. Biology Letters 18 (8), 20220155.
  3. MR Silliman, R Schürch, S Malone, SV Taylor, MJ Couvillon (2022) Row crop fields provide mid‐summer forage for honey bees. Ecology and Evolution 12 (6), e8979.

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