Bumble bee risks and rewards in
British Columbia farmlands
Project Outline
Description: Evaluating foraging distances, dispersal, pesticide exposure, and diet composition of bumble bees to assess the impacts of landscape-scale diversification or simplification.
Project background: Starting in 2020, Jenna Melanson has been conducting bumble bee surveys in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. This project is incorporating genotyping, pollen meta-barcoding, mass spectrometry and landscape classification techniques.
Principle Collaborators: Prof Juli Carillo (UBC)
Undergraduate Assistants: Oliver Hong, Hazel Barthel, & Elinor Sisk
Funding Partners: NSERC Alliance, Vanier Canadian Graduate Scholarships
Land Acknowledgment: This research takes place on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations.
PATHWAY ONE
Research Themes
![](https://worcslab.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/habitat-use.jpg)
![](https://worcslab.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/movement.jpg)
![](https://worcslab.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/biodiversity-outcomes.jpg)
WoRCS Lab Members
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Jenna Melanson
![](https://worcslab.ubc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/49FC50EC-5B37-4138-B441-9886572EB63D.jpg)
Tyler Kelly
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