Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology

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Update from the Goodell lab

1-The Bee Team is up to their elbows (or should I say, tarsi) in flowers this week, like this bumble bee in a Penstemon flower (attached photo). Watch for us out surveying bees on roadsides anywhere from Dayton to Mansfield to Logan, and in local Metro Parks.

Update from the Lanno Lab

Heather Fair, a PhD student in Roman Lanno's lab was awarded a Knauss Fellowship.

Congratulations, Heather!

Summer Acarology Program

The summer Acarology Program continues at the Museum of Biological Diversity and hosts folks from Chile, Brazil, Cololmbia, Costa Rica, Canada, Britain, India, and China. The Introductory Acarology course recently finished with 20 people.

Ohio Bumble Bee Survey Team looking for sampling sites

The Ohio Bumble Bee Survey Team, led by Randy Mitchell of University of Akron and Karen Goodell, EEOB Associate Professor, is looking to sample bumble bees in E/SE/NW Ohio throughout the month of June.