Tuesday, July 10, 2018

It looks like a bee and sounds like a bee... but it's not a bee

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I've written about mimicry of bees by flies before, in context of syrphid flies . Syrphid flies are generally considered Batesian mimic...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

There's (bee) love in the air

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A couple of weeks ago I came across a rather unconventional-seeming insect gathering on the sidewalk on my way home from the lab: Bombus...
Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Cheating in mutualisms? Nectar-robbing and nectar-thieving

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As a pollination ecologist, I study the mutualistic relationship between plants and their pollinators. Mutualism is roughly defined as an i...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

Pop! goes the seed pod

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Earlier this week, I  posted  about the profusely blooming Impatiens capensis (jewel-weed), particularly a few visitors I managed to film v...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Impatiens capensis pollination (Bonus: even bees can be clumsy)

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I know I haven't blogged in quite a while. Life got very hectic for a while. In the months my last post, I have finished my M.Sc., gotte...
Monday, May 29, 2017

It takes a special kind of obsession to do fieldwork

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I wrote a few weeks ago about the start of the field season. I have been back up to the field site a couple of times since then mostly ...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Natural history and ecology go together like flowers and pollinators

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I've only very recently returned from Victoria, where I attended CSEE2017 and gave a talk. CSEE2017 was fantastic, but I will save my co...