Pollinator Week 2023 - QUEEN BUMBLE BEE BEHAVIOUR FROM SPRING TO FALL with Amanda Liczner

Amanda Liczner is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Guelph supervised by Dr. Nigel Raine. Amanda’s current work is studying the impacts of different environmental stressors on bumble bee queen movement using radio telemetry. She has also worked with WPC to investigate the role of air and soil temperature of the spring emergence timing of bumble bee queens. Amanda completed her PhD at York University where she examined the habitat characteristics and conservation of Northeastern North American bumble bee species. During her PhD research, Amanda collaborated with WPC and Working Dogs for Conservation to locate bumble bee nests using detection dogs in southern Ontario. In another project, Amanda and WPC described the habitat of two at-risk bumble bee species at the landscape and local scale within southern Ontario.