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Left to right: Biology lecturer Briana Lindh and students Anissa Garcia ’20, Samantha Coleman ’19 and Annie Jolliff ’19 with the bee hotel they constructed.
FALL 2018
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A new “hotel” is causing a buzz on campus — or at least that’s what Willamette students hope. Over the summer, Briana Lindh, senior lecturer in biology, along with students Annie Jolliff ’19 and Samantha Coleman ’19, built a “bee hotel” in the Martha Springer Botanical Garden. Despite the existence of some 500 bee species in Oregon and growing concern over possible population declines, little research is available on the insects that are critical to human food production and the natural environment.
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The “hotel” should enable students to conduct research such as comparing the numbers of successful larvae to diseased ones, or studying different kinds of pollen to identify the plants that bees visit. Lindh, Jolliff and Coleman have already worked together on a Science Collaborative Research Program project, “Comparing Bee Communities in Urban and Rural Environments.” Lindh notes that bees and flowers evolved together,
which resulted in specialized relationships between bee and plant species — like an orchid that makes a wax used by male bees as a perfume to attract mates. Lindh, who is also a plant ecologist, says bees are interesting to study because they’re “tiny, charismatic wildlife that are all around us, even in the city.” She adds, “I can do a whole safari in my yard in 15 minutes and see 10 different species.”
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