Hibernating bumblebee queens can survive up to a week underwater. Read the full #BiologyLetters paper by Sabrina Rondeau, PhD Nigel Raine here: ow.ly/W2nk50RqRum
#diapause #bumblebees #ecology

Fun to see #BiologyLetters paper from Royal Society Publishing by Sabrina Rondeau, PhD and Nigel Raine getting a shout out on BBC One #HIGNFY !

Unveiling the submerged secrets: #bumblebee queens' resilience to flooding | royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Delighted to hear Samm Reynolds (she/her) has been awarded an @NSERC Graduate Scholarship to support her important #PhD work on the impacts of different habitat types for conserving the diversity of native #pollinators on Ontario farms🐝🪰Huge congrats 🎉 #ProudCoSupervisor with Andrew D Young

For more details about our study on bumblebee queen's resilience to flooding, check out this online seminar! 🐝🌊 #UnveilingTheSecret

#UofG | Bumblebee queens that can survive underwater?

As It Happens explores what researchers School of Environmental Sciences have discovered 🐝

Sabrina Rondeau, PhD Nigel Raine

Listen in at the 17:29 mark: cbc.ca/listen/live-ra…

#UofG | @Guardian talks to researchers in the School of Environmental Sciences about discovering that bumblebees can survive underwater 🐝

Read more: theguardian.com/environment/20…

An American bumblebee species can survive a week submerged underwater! Helping them deal with floods.

Incredible creatures, I bet our European species can do the same.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

Sabrina Rondeau, PhD Lots of media interest in this story. Great to see Sabrina Rondeau, PhD's ground-breaking #bumblebee science on the front page of The Globe and Mail today & Victoria J. MacPhail, PhD's lovely 🐝📸 on p6. Thanks Ivan Semeniuk for covering it: theglobeandmail.com/canada/science…

#UofG researchers uncover the unexpected ability of bumblebee queens to withstand flooding.

The discovery arose from an unexpected experimental error when water accidentally flooded containers housing overwintering bumblebee queens.

Learn more: uoguel.ph/y7e4h

🗣️ “Bumblebees are declining globally, it’s about one third of all bumblebee species.” 🐝

Sabrina Rondeau, PhD says some queen bees’ ability to survive underwater means they’re more resilient to the effects of climate change 🌍

🎧Tech & Science Daily - lnk.to/x494eZ

Sleeping bumblebees can survive underwater for a week newscientist.com/article/242711…

#UofG researchers have made the unexpected discovery that bumblebee queens are remarkably resilient to flooding.

Ontario Agricultural College School of Environmental Sciences Nigel Raine Sabrina Rondeau, PhD news.uoguelph.ca/2024/04/queen-…

This was the most unexpected poster I saw at BOMBUSS3.0. I asked Sabrina how she even thought to do this and she said it occurred by chance originally when a freezer malfunctioned. (see abstract)

Serendipitous science! Nice work, both!

When vials housing hibernating bumblebee queens accidentally flooded, Sabrina Rondeau, PhD thought for sure the bees were dead...instead, she discovered that these sleeping beauties are surprisingly waterproof! I've got the story here for Science News 🐝 sciencenews.org/article/hibern…

We had a great meeting with coordinators from #MissionMonarch , Abeilles citoyennes, eTick, and Mission Monarch Expert (MMx).

Canadian-based #CommunityScience looks very promising this year!!

#conservation #Butterflies #insects #bees #ticks #monarch

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