Bumble Bee Niche Dynamics

As an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Shalene Jha, I am examining how bumble bee niche dynamics are affected by genetics, temperature, body size, and phenology. In the summer of 2023, I collected pilot data at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory and will continue data collection in the summers of 2024 and 2025. Stay tuned here to see what I find!

Some pollen from a field-collected bumble bee, stained with fuchsine and viewed at 40x magnification. Look at all that morphological diversity!