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Pollination powerhouse not pest

Celebrity sighting

The unsung pollinators of Ontario

Bee-yond the microscope

Surveying bumbles in transient landscapes

Transformation underway

Recent research confirms: pollinators need our help

Everything you didn’t know about pollination and why bumble bees are the real MVPS

FREED: empowering BIPOC students for a future in ecology Part 2

How to feed a bumble bee colony

FREED: empowering BIPOC students for a future in ecology Part 1

Where are they now?

Adventures in Taylor’s Checkerspot Butterfly Surveys

Empowering communities for bumble bee conservation

Slithering towards success

Breeding native bumble bees in the lab

How can you help with bumble bee breeding?

Buzzworthy pursuits: Finding rare and at-risk bumble bee species in Ontario.

What is the difference between butterflies and moths?

What is the difference between bees, flies and wasps?

A little bit of luck!

A decade of bumble bee surveys: Part 2 – What’s on the menu?

A decade of bumble bee surveys: Part 1 – Who, when, where, how?

Yellow-Banded Bumble Bee

First observed bumble bee mating

Saving native bumbles – in the field and in the lab

What’s buzzing in bumble butts?

Second generation of duskywing butterflies anticipated!

What is the best part of being a Bumble Biologist?

Stumped: Why do bumble bees need forests?

Early emerging bumble bee species to look out for this spring

The unexpected links between declining bumble bee species

Top five highlights of the bumble bee season

Beyond workers: mating and overwintering bumble bees

Bumble bee field work: when a generalist meets a specialist

How are the bumble bees doing in southern Ontario?

How to help a butterfly

How Bumble Bee Watch supports conservation

What’s the buzz at WPC’s Bumble Bee Conservation Lab?

Breeding butterflies in BC

Saving an endangered butterfly

Nosing out nests – can detection dogs be used to find bumble bee nests?

The joy of spotting checkerspots & other butterflies

What insects are bees?

You don’t always find the bees that you’re looking for

How to take the best bumble bee photos

Reinforcements have arrived!

Helliwell Provincial Park – native habitat for endangered butterflies

What is causing wild bee declines?

A bumble bee’s journey

What are the differences between honey bees and bumble bees?

The power of The Pinery

Bumble bee community science at The Pinery: Past, present and future

Going Lawnless for Native Pollinators

Do caterpillars wear toques?

The Beauty of the Butterfly

I love Taylor’s checkerspot!

Pollen and Bees Beelong Together

Time flies! Three years at Glenbow Ranch

Sweating (and appreciating) the small stuff

One Way or another! A search for Ontario’s bumble bees

Taylor’s checkerspot release on Hornby Island

Contributing to Community Science: One Volunteer’s Experience in Bumble Bee Conservation

Bumble Bee Surveys in a New Light

To sting, or not to sting?

Flying under the radar: encountering bumble bee mimics in the field

Quest for Queens

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