Hot Bees: Bridging Approaches and Innovative Tools to Understand Heat Wave Impacts on Wild Bees

Organizer(s)

• 

  Neal Williams

  Professor of Entomology
  Davis
  University of California
  Stony Brook, New York
• JH

  Jeremy Hemberger

  University of Minnesota
  St. Paul, Minnesota

This symposium will combine a range of innovative approaches to quantifying the impacts of heat waves on bees. Speakers will highlight approaches in insect thermal biology and the frameworks we consider have broad relevance to a range of topics in insect ecology including other pest and beneficial insect taxa.

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM Pacific

  The damage is done: Delayed mortality after acute heat exposure reveals cryptic heat risk
  

  Presenting Author: Sarah Waybright (she/her/hers) – University of California

  Co-Author: Sabrina White – University of Wyoming

  Co-Author: Michael Dillon – University of Wyoming
• 1:45 PM - 2:00 PM Pacific

  Heatwave impacts on immature stages of the solitary bee Osmia lignaria
  

  Presenting Author: Neal M. Williams – University of California

  Co-Author: Grace Melone – University of Wisconsin

  Co-Author: Clara Stuligross – Kalamazoo College
• 2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific

  Impacts of heat waves on solitary bee (Osmia lignaria) fitness and development: A comparative study of three western populations
  

  Presenting Author: Clara Stuligross – Kalamazoo College

  Co-Author: Sarah Caso – University of California-Berkeley

  Co-Author: Alicia Wilgoren – Kalamazoo College

  Co-Author: Annaliese Bol – Kalamazoo College

  Co-Author: Neal M. Williams – University of California

  Co-Author: Hollis Woodard (she/her/hers) – University of California
• 2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Pacific

  Applying physiologically-guided modeling to predict heat wave risk to California pollinators
  

  Presenting Author: Jeremy Hemberger – University of Minnesota

  Co-Author: Neal M. Williams – University of California
• 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Pacific

  Break
• 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Pacific

  The tox-ecology of heat exposure: Cryptic variation in bumble bee heat tolerance across the Americas
  

  Presenting Author: Michael Dillon – University of Wyoming

  Co-Author: Sarah Waybright (she/her/hers) – University of California

  Co-Author: Victor Gonzalas – University of Kansas

  Co-Author: Oscar Martínez López – El Colegio de la frontera Sur

  Co-Author: Alejandra Martinez de Castro – El Colegio de la frontera Sur (ECOSUR)

  Co-Author: Omar Argüello-Nájera – El Colegio de la frontera Sur (ECOSUR)

  Co-Author: Rémy Vandame (he/him/his) – El Colegio de la Frontera Sur

  Co-Author: Marlene Aguilar-Benavides – Universidad Militar Nueva Granada (UMNG)
• 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM Pacific

  Gotta Fan 'em All: Using computer vision based tracking to understand the impacts of heatwaves on social thermoregulation in bumble bees
  

  Presenting Author: Grace Melone – University of Wisconsin

  Co-Author: Acacia Tang – UW Madison

  Co-Author: James Crall – University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific

  Burning the bridge: Extreme heat weakens both bee hosts and their pathogens
  

  Presenting Author: Mitzy Porras – San Francisco State University

  Co-Author: Carlos Navas – University of São Paulo,

  Co-Author: Gustavo Agudelo-Cantero – University of São Paulo

  Co-Author: Michel Santiago-Martínez – University of Connecticut

  Co-Author: Volker Loeschcke – Aarhus University

  Co-Author: Jesper Sørensen – Aarhus University

  Co-Author: Sharifa Crandall – Pennsylvania State University

  Co-Author: David Biddinger (he/him/his) – Penn State University

  Co-Author: Edwin G. Rajotte – The Pennsylvania State University
• 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM Pacific

  Extreme heat alters blueberry pollen nutrition and the health of a solitary bee pollinator, Osmia lignaria
  

  Presenting Author: Jenna Walters – University of Maine

  Co-Author: Robin Fisher – Michigan State University

  Co-Author: Thomas Sharkey – Michigan State University

  Co-Author: Rufus Isaacs – Michigan State University

  Co-Author: James Santiago – University of Illinois
• 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM Pacific

  Panel discussion