Lidia Cervantes, Giancarlo López-Martínez Published: January 1, 2022 Abstract Insect pollination is a crucial component of our ecosystems and biodiversity, but our reliance on this ecosystem service has much broader implications. We depend on these pollination services to produce materials and food. But insect pollinators, especially bees, are in strong decline due to a plethora…

Jacob Pithan is a PhD candidate working in Dr. Greenlee’s lab under the guidance of both Dr. Kendra Greenlee and Dr. Giancarlo Lopez-Martinez at North Dakota State University. Jacob’s favorite part about science is the continuous pursuit of the unknown, the infinite possible questions, and how science instills a sense of curiosity in people.  He…

Rikki Walter, Joseph P Rinehart, Michael Dillon, Kendra Greenlee Published: August 14, 2021 Abstract Bumble bees are eusocial, with distinct worker and queen castes that vary strikingly in size and life-history. The smaller workers rely on energetically-demanding foraging flights to collect resources for rearing brood. Queens can be 3 to 4 times larger than workers,…

Elisabeth S. Wilson, Claire E. Murphy, Covey Wong, Joseph P Rinehart, George D. Yocum, Julia H Bowsher Published: August 3, 2021 Abstract Megachile rotundata exhibits a facultative prepupal diapause but the cues regulating diapause initiation are not well understood. Possible cues include daylength and temperature. Megachile rotundata females experience changing daylengths over the nesting season…