Genevieve Rowe's research while affiliated with Wildlife Preservation Canada and other places

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Few bumblebee (Bombus) species have been developed for commercial production or mass rearing but domesticating a variety of species could provide commercial pollinators or conservation techniques for threatened wild populations. While it is apparent that some variety in rearing protocols tailored to species specificity is required, a core methodolo...

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... Further, the vast majority of studies of heat stress effects are done in the laboratory using commercially available B. terrestris and B. impatiens (Table 1), so we have little information on most wild bumble bee species (but see Gerard et al., 2022a;Martinet et al., 2015;Martinet et al., 2021b) in wild settings. This may in part reflect the difficulty in starting colonies from wild caught queens (Christman et al., 2022;Rowe et al., 2023), a challenge we'll need to overcome if we are to better understand species-specific responses to ongoing climate change. ...