

The Starks Lab is ready for Tour de Hives 2016!
As some of you may have seen on Facebook, the Starks Lab “bee huts” got a serious facelift this summer. During the first week of the...
Jun 15, 2016


Das ist cool
Last week, I was lucky enough participate in the first ever Plant and Pollen Metabarcoding Workshop at the University of Würzburg in...
May 17, 2016


What's that smell?
After returning from Costa Rica, it’s hard to decide what to write about—there’s so much! I saw amazing plants and animals, released baby...
Jan 22, 2016


Stop copying me!
There are a lot of bee mimics out there. Some are so good that they trick people who spend a lot of time with bees (like myself)! To the...
Dec 3, 2015


Battling bees: A day in the field
To investigate honey bee mineral preferences, I put out artificial feeders (the upside-down tubes in the video) with different mineral...
Aug 4, 2015