Corneile Minnaar
@cminnaar.bsky.social
Postdoc at Royal Holloway Uni. London | Interested in interactions betw. pollinators, plants & parasites | Working on heather as nature's pharmacy for bumblebees in @markjfbrown.bsky.social's lab 💊🐝
Makes music for fun 🎸🎹🥁🎤
#FirstGen | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️-ally | he/him
Makes music for fun 🎸🎹🥁🎤
#FirstGen | 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️-ally | he/him
This bumblebee worker is taking her first ever flight. Watch how she studies and memorises visual features around her hive entrance. These initial orientation flights help workers find their hives again on future foraging trips.
What's with the odd, 90s-looking decor on the hive box?
See thread 👇
What's with the odd, 90s-looking decor on the hive box?
See thread 👇
May 2, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This bumblebee worker is taking her first ever flight. Watch how she studies and memorises visual features around her hive entrance. These initial orientation flights help workers find their hives again on future foraging trips.
What's with the odd, 90s-looking decor on the hive box?
See thread 👇
What's with the odd, 90s-looking decor on the hive box?
See thread 👇
Caught one of our Buff-tailed bumblebee queens in the act of egg laying! To start a colony, queens lay eggs inside a pocket in/on a pollen ball so that larvae have direct access to plenty of food when they hatch. Amazed by the deft and speed with which she applies wax to close the egg pocket!
March 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Caught one of our Buff-tailed bumblebee queens in the act of egg laying! To start a colony, queens lay eggs inside a pocket in/on a pollen ball so that larvae have direct access to plenty of food when they hatch. Amazed by the deft and speed with which she applies wax to close the egg pocket!