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Assistant Professor, Biology, Providence College
TEDxTufts Speaker, Embracing Science as a Verb
Storyteller, The Story Collider, A Dangerous Job
Rachael E. Bonoan, PhD
Honey Bee Research
Counting bees
REU 2017 interns Ally and Paola measuring foraging rate by counting how many bees leave the hive.
New hives!
Preview of our 8 new observation hives for 2017!
Pollen
Pollen pellets from our pollen traps!
Pollen trap
The openings are just large enough to let a bee through (without her pollen pellets).
Yellow bee
Winner of the 2015 Tufts Graduate Student Photo Competition.
Preference assays
Honey bees drinking from a feeder with a salt solution.
Dirty water
The picture (taken on an iPhone) that started it all.
Honey bee wing
Magnified 400x.
Honey bee foot
Magnified 400x.
All photographs are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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