Category: Pollinators

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We’re hiring an Outreach Specialist!

We are now accepting applications for a part time, temporary Outreach Specialist position to begin in April 2021 and continue for ~6 months. This position will work with our WiBee project, developing and presenting online materials to promote the program to the targeted audiences, engaging with users, and creating summary reports.  Our lab is based …

Undergraduate student Celeste Huff completes fall research on bumble bee floral networks

This fall, the Gratton Lab hosted UW–Madison sophomore Celeste Huff for a Zoology 152 independent project. She chose to investigate the floral preferences of local bumble bees in early fall, asking whether different bumble bee species associate with different suites of flowers to fulfill their nutritional needs. With the help of graduate student Taylor Tai, …

New brochure on wild bees in Wisconsin apple orchards

Recently, lab technician Olivia Bernauer and post-doc Hannah Gaines Day put together a brochure about the wild bee pollinators found in Wisconsin apple orchards which was handed out to apple growers at the 2017 Field Day at one of our research partner farms, Green’s Pleasant Springs Orchard.  This brochure summarizes information about the most important …

Talking Science: 2017 conferences thus far

The Gratton lab has been busy these past couple of months presenting research at regional and national meetings.  Here are examples of our 2017 research presentations ranging from bee behavioral responses in apple orchards to nitrogen effects on freshwater algal communities. While these topics may appear disparate and unrelated, they are all united by the …