Patrick McKenzie
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Patrick McKenzie
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Postdoc in Harvard OEB -- Hopkins lab. systematics, speciation, hybridization in flowering plants. Natural history via community science. Previously Eaton lab at Columbia. Birder, Arkansan, he/him
strategy 3: pollen collector! again have only seen very small bees do this, but I think still B impatiens... Only a couple bees in the whole Monarda stand doing this. (please forgive my cinematography)
July 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
strategy 2: nectar robber! For B impatiens (again I think this is correct ID but bee people please check me). I see this with especially small bees and assumed it was a different species, but now I think not (tons of lit I don't know well about intraspecific Bombus body size variation)
July 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
spent time today watching different foraging strategies among (I *think?*) the same species of bumblebee (B impatiens), all right next to each other. Starting with the classic nectar dive, which seems to be by far the most common... but notice that the anthers and stigma project way out over the bee
July 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM