ESA Spotlights Bumble Bee Research from Neal Williams Lab
by Kathy Keatley Garvey, UC Davis, Department of Entomology & Nematology
April 4, 2025
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) recently spotlighted bumble bee research from the laboratory of pollinator ecologist Neal Williams, a professor in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
ESA singled out “Predicting Landscape-Scale Native Bumble Bee Habitat Use Over Space, Time, and Forage Availability,” for special recognition in a recent blog. The research initially appeared Feb. 14, 2025 in the journal Ecology.
The research, involving bumble bee pollen preference in a diverse, agricultural region of Northern California, is the work of Williams and former lab member Jeremy Hemberger, then a USDA NIFA postdoctoral fellow in the Williams lab, and now an assistant professor of entomology at the University of Minnesota.
Keep reading: https://entnem.ucdavis.edu/news/esa-blog-spotlights-bumble-bee-research-neal-williams-lab
Read the Ecology paper: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.70008