Published today, this new paper studies wild bee communities and populations in apple and blueberry orchards in New Hampshire. Full article here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/afe.12370

A new review paper is out this week looking at the use of genomics on improving the health of wild and managed bees. Congrats Amro! Full article here: https://go.nature.com/2SXcb3h

Congratulations to Rafael Ferrari, Laurence Packer, Tom Onuferko, and Spencer Monckton on their new new publication on the evolutionary history of the genus Colletes, also known as cellophane bees. Full article here: https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1ab~03m3nM-x2z…  

Congratulations to Amro Zayed who was crowned incoming President of the Entomological Society of Ontario during the annual meeting this November. Here are some photos of the meetings, which took place at Bark Lake, Ontario.  

York University released a list of its top 10 moments of 2019. Coming in at number 4 is the BeeCSI project, led by Amro Zayed (and co-led by Leonard Foster, UBC). The project was recently awarded $10 million (Genome Canada and Ontario Genomics) to kick start a nation-wide honey bee genomics project. The group of […]

Two members of BEEc, Laurence Packer and Sandra Rehan, were invited to the 2nd Australian Native Bee Conference in Brisbane, Queensland last week (Dec 5-7). The two researchers were welcomed as keynote speakers at the conference. Packer presented on native bee diversity and taxonomy, while Sandra spoke about social evolution and behavioural genetics in small […]

Dr. Laurence Packer, BEEc lead researcher and distinguished research professor at York University, has been awarded the Nature Inspiration Award! We shared this news on Twitter last month, but this is a noteworthy accomplishment! Congratulations Laurence!   Bee expert Laurence Packer receives Nature Inspiration Award

Amro Zayed (YorkU) and Leonard Foster (UBC) join a cross-nation team of researchers on a project to develop a new tool which will be used to assess and diagnose honey bee health. The aim of BeeCSI is to bring industrial modernization in the form of a new tool which will give a quick bee health […]

This morning, Toronto's official bee, 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯 𝘷𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘴, was featured in the Toronto Star. The bee first received its unofficial title in the Bees of Toronto book, part of the city's biodiversity series. The book was written and composed by members of our BEEc team (L. Packer, S. Dumesh, S. Colla, and A. Zayed) as well […]

PhD candidate Kathrine Odanaka and Dr. Sandra Rehan publish a paper on the effects of land use changes on the phylogenetic diversity of wild bees. Read more here.