Bumble bees will avoid visiting flowers when an invasive bee, the European wool-carder bee, is nearby
Here's a press release about this work:MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE (January 18, 2019) – Bees play a vital role in food production and reproduction of plants. Native bumble bees are particularly important po...
Goodbye to the bees for now!
This summer we spent over 80 hours watching bees. Which, if you haven’t ever done that, I highly recommend it. Ok, maybe you don’t need to spend quite that much time bee watching. But I promise tha...
Preparing the field site
Field site preparation is almost complete! I have three amazing Tufts undergrads working for me - Isabel, Kevin and Sean. They have been doing back breaking work to get everything ready for the bum...
Excited to get started!
I have to send a huge thank you to everyone who was able to support my project. I'm so excited to get started. Ordering my bumble bee hives today to arrive in July. I'll be sure to post pictures an...
Thank you!
Thank you so much to everyone who was able to support this project. I'm so happy I was able to reach my funding goal. Since I still have 8 days left on this campaign, I decided to add a stretch goa...
Carlos Vergara