Cory S. Sheffield 🇨🇦🐝🌺📸🎸🎨

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🧪 It is going to be a busy year for #cavity-nesting #bee #research. 8000 potential homes for solitary bees just arrived!

Unraveling the function of the hooked hairs of females of Monoeca species (Apidae: Tapinotaspidini) - Apidologie Females of all Monoeca species have strong hooked bristles on the mesosomal venter, leg bases, and metasomal sterna (2–4), which suggests that they could be related to pollen collection; however, this...

🧪 Unraveling the function of the hooked hairs of females of Monoeca species (Apidae: Tapinotaspidini) link.springer.com/article/10.1... #bees #pollination #morphology

Entomology Job! Australian native bee systematics:

These wonderful #paintings of #bees were done by Hashime Murayama (1879–1954), a Japanese American painter and scientific illustrator and appeared in the July 1937 issue of The National Geographic Magazine. As much as I love #macrophotography, paintings such as these are such a pleasure to look at.

I have been interested in the faunistics of northern #Canada and #Alaska for some time. This lovely volume on the #arthropods of #Greenland is an excellent contribution; the three bee species are covered on three pages, though what was called #Bombus hyperboreus should now be Bombus natvigi.

I drew this for my aunt when I was a teenager before I had any knowledge of archival acid-free paper. It was framed without glass, and received the full range of exposure of dust and smoke from the house it was in. #pencil #art #dogs #sketch

UAV‐based remote sensing of bee nesting aggregations with computer vision for object detection Our novel application of UAV imagery and object detection models for mapping and censusing ground nesting bee aggregations represents a rapid, cost-effective solution for overcoming limitations in tr....

🧪 UAV-based remote sensing of bee nesting aggregations with computer vision for object detection besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Assistant professor in botany job description for University of Northern British Columbia

Come work with us! We are seeking a tenure-track botanist, preferably in the areas of non-vascular, systematics, physiology or cell. Happy to answer questions.

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🧪🌱 #botany

🧪 Phylogenomics and biogeography of the cleptoparasitic bee genus Triepeolus Robertson (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with a revised subgeneric classification of Triepeolus and its sister genus, Epeolus Latreille resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just got a pdf of this entire work on #chalcidoidea for a fraction of what I paid for the hard copy! Take a look: biologylibrary.online

This new book on the #bees of #Australia just arrived and it is loaded with fabulous #macrophotos and great information. I can’t wait to go through it thoroughly!

I must admit, I have not seen many specimens of #Bombus variabilis, this #cuckoo #bumblebee was collected in Florida in 1984. @paulwilliamsnhm.bsky.social

🧪 Inverted terra cotta plant pot bases for encouraging #Osmia bees that normally #nest under stones. Osmia inermis females were encouraged to nest in lowbush blueberry fields in Newfoundland (our study from 2015): resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...)

Anthophila-03-Einzelartikel-Veröffentlichungen : Kompetenzzentrum Wildbienen Unsere Zeitschrift widmet sich in wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen neuesten Erkenntnissen zur Taxonomie, Verbreitung, Ökologie, Gefährdung, Schutz und Monitoring von Wildbienen.

🧪 Illustrated key to the Central and Northwest European species of the bee genus Colletes LATREILLE, 1802 (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) www.wildbienenzentrum.de/anthophila/a... #bees

Colour variation in the #Megachile subgenus #Megachiloides has likely had an impact on #conservation assessments for some of the #species. I will be talking about this later today at #Hymathon2025 #bees

Arthropod species loss underpins biomass declines - Nature Ecology & Evolution Insects are declining in many regions. Here the authors show that arthropod biomass losses in Jena Experiment and Biodiversity Exploratories time series are driven more by species loss than by species...

🧪Arthropod species loss underpins biomass declines www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Structural and Functional Co‐Adaptation of Plants of the Genus Lysimachia L. (Primulaceae) and Pollinating Insects of the Genus Macropis Panzer (Hymenoptera, Melittidae) The co-adaptation of bees from the genus Macropis and Lysimachia plants has been studied in detail. Research shows that bees collect not just pure liquid oil from flower petals but tear off trichome ...

🧪 Structural and Functional Co-Adaptation of Plants of the Genus Lysimachia L. (Primulaceae) and Pollinating Insects of the Genus Macropis Panzer (Hymenoptera, Melittidae) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#Honeybee colonies swarm when the colony gets too large, with 1/2 the colony’s workers + the old queen leaving to find a suitable cavity; this is what I though was happening in the first photo. However, open-air colonies are rarely observed in regions with cold winters like SK. #saskatchewan

🧪 Keys to the genera and subgenera of the bee subfamily Euryglossinae (Hymenoptera: Colletidae) www.ingentaconnect.com/content/pemb...

Western Palaearctic Chelostoma bees of the subgenus Chelostoma (Megachilidae, Osmiini): biology, taxonomy and key to species | Zootaxa

🧪 Western Palaearctic Chelostoma bees of the subgenus Chelostoma (Megachilidae, Osmiini): biology, taxonomy and key to species www.mapress.com/zt/article/v...

The beautiful nighttime sky of Saskatchewan tonight #northernlights

This was my first attempt at using #coloredpencils for #wildlife #art

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BHL Transition Update #6: Fundraising Campaign – Support the Future of Open Biodiversity Knowledge The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is launching a new public fundraising campaign to help us navigate our transition to independence. This is our first major campaign since the announcement th…

🚀 Big news from BHL! 🌱
We’ve launched our Transition Fundraising Campaign to help BHL navigate the move to independence and secure a sustainable, global future for open biodiversity knowledge. #BHLTransition #ILoveBHL #OpenAccess

🔗 Read more and donate: blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2025/10/dona...

Curator of Plants & Sustainability - Royal Ontario Museum - Career Page Apply to Curator of Plants & Sustainability at Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, ON, Canada.

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto is looking for a Curator of Plants and Sustainability #academicjobs #iamabotanist royalontariomuseum.applytojob.com/apply/Sf2iAO...

🚨🪲 COOL JOB ALERT 🪲🚨
3-year position at the Western Australian Museum working on an awesome beetle phylogenetics project, starting at $105k dollarydoos per annum: search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

On the nomenclature of Bombus flavifrons Smith, 1866 (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombini) The name Bombus flavifrons has been applied to two different bumble bee species in North America, one described by Ezra Cresson in 1863, the other by Frederick Smith in 1866. Bombus flavifrons Cresson...

Our new paper “On the nomenclature of Bombus flavifrons Smith, 1866 (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombini)” @paulwilliamsnhm.bsky.social jhr.pensoft.net/article/1632...

It’s great to be in Calgary, Alberta for the Entomological Society of Canada’s Annual Meeting. I will be talking about my research on one of my favourite groups of #bees @canentomologist.bsky.social

🧪 This is pretty amazing!