Program

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

6:30 - 8:30 p.m. - Early Registration and Welcome Reception for early arrivals (Good Life Garden, Robert Mondavi Institute)

Thursday, July 18, 2019

7:30 a.m. - Registration at ARC Conference Ballroom

6:45 - 8:30 am: Breakfast at Segundo Dining Commons (Participants will be given a meal card at registration)

All conference oral presentations will be held in the ARC Conference Ballroom

8:45 a.m. - Opening remarks and welcome

9:00 a.m. - Keynote: The Importance of People in Pollinator Conservation

Lynn Dicks, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK

10:00 a.m. - Session 1: Novel Quantitative Methods in Pollinator Ecology & Management

The Role of Bee and Non-Bee Pollinators in Australian Open and Protected Cropping Systems (How do we overcome the pollination challenges?) - Romina Rader, University of New England, Australia

Implementing a Honeybee Foraging Model and REDAPOLL Fruit Set Predictions in Washington State’s Decision Aid System - Vince Jones, Washington State University, USA

Using DNA metabarcoding techniques to improve plant-pollinator interaction networks - Victoria Reynolds, University of Queensland, Australia

Citizen Science Data for Mapping Bumblebee Populations - Claudio Gratton, University of Wisconsin

From Theory to Practice: The Bumble-BEEHAVE Model and its Application to Enhance Pollinator Friendly Land Management - Matthias Becher, University of Exeter, UK

A laboratory system to study the effects of stressors on honey bee health and fecundity - Julia Fine, USDA-ARS Davis, California, USA

Using Automated Tracking to Link Individual Behavior to Colony Performance in Bumblebees - James Crall, Harvard University, USA

12:15 p.m. - Lunch Break

Lunch is open from 11:30 AM—1:30 PM at Segundo Dining Commons

1:45 p.m. - Session 2: Drivers of Host-Pathogen Interactions

DWV as a Driver of Host Bee Decline - Robert Paxton, Martin-Luther University, Germany

Novel transmission routes and intensification as drivers of disease emergence and virulence in honeybee viruses - Mike Boots, UC Berkeley, USA

Viral transmission in honey bees and native bees supported by a global BQCV phylogeny - Elizabeth Murray, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, USA

Drivers of Pathogen Distributions in Feral and Managed Honey Bees - Panuwan Chantawannakul, Chiang Mai University, Thailand

Serratia marcescens, a Pathobiont of Honey Bees? - Kasie Raymann, University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA

Foreign fungi in native bees across the Commonwealth of Virginia - Kathryn LeCroy, University of Virginia, USA

Traits as Drivers of Plant-Pollinator-Pathogen Networks - Quinn McFrederick, UC Riverside and Scott McArt, Cornell University, USA

4:30 p.m. - Poster Session 1 and Networking (ARC Ballroom)

6:30-8:30 p.m. - Welcome Reception

Friday, July 19, 2019

6:45—8:30 AM - Breakfast at Segundo Dining Commons

9:00 a.m. - Keynote: Bee Nutritional Ecology: From Genes to Landscapes

Christina Grozinger, Penn State University, USA

10:00 a.m. - Session 3: Climate Change Impacts on Bees

Bee responses to climate change: from micro- to macroecology - Jessica Forrest, University of Ottawa, Canada

A climate vise of temperature extremes may explain past and predict future bumble bee range shifts - Michael Dillon, University of Wyoming, USA

Climate change effects on Megachilidae bee species along an elevation gradient - Lindsie McCabe, Northern Arizona University, USA

Testing the phenological mismatch hypothesis for a plant-pollinator interaction - Charlotte de Keyzer, University of Toronto, Canada

Phenological mismatch between bees and flowers early in the spring and late in the summer - Gaku Kudo, Hokkaido University, Japan

Climate change impacts on Brazilian pollinators - Tereza (Cris) Giannini, Federal University of Para, Brazil

Climate change effects on the status, distribution, and phenology of California bumble bees - Leif Richardson, University of Vermont, USA

12:15 p.m. - Lunch Break

Lunch is open from 11:30 AM—1:30 PM at Segundo Dining Commons

1:45 p.m. - Session 4: Causes and Consequences of Pesticide Use: from use patterns to pollination services

A New Framework for Environmental Risk Assessment of Pesticides - Francisco Sánchez-Bayo, University of Sydney, Australia

Potency paradox: Patterns and Drivers of Insecticide Use in U.S. Agriculture - Maggie Douglas, Dickinson College, USA

Estimating Pollinator Pesticide Exposure - Maj Rundlof, Lund University, Sweden

A Risk Assessment of Neonicotinoid Insecticides in New York - Travis Grout, Cornell University, USA

Risk of exposure in soil and sublethal effects of systemic insecticides applied to crops on adult female ground-nesting bees using the hoary squash bee as a model species - D. Susan Willis Chan, University of Guelph, Canada

Delayed lethality: The effects of a widely-used fungicide on honey bees (Apis mellifera) - Adrian Fisher II, Arizona State University, USA

Sub-lethal Impacts of Pesticides on Bees - Troy Anderson, University of Nebraska, USA

5:00 p.m. - Poster Session 2 and Networking (ARC Ballroom)

Saturday, July 20, 2019

8:00 a.m. - Registration (ARC Ballroom)

6:45—8:30 AM - Breakfast in Segundo Dining Commons

9:00 a.m. - Session 5: Integrative Approaches to Improving Bee Health Across Landscapes

Combining physiological and ecological data for more effective bee protection and conservation - Cedric Alaux, INRA, France

Keeping bees in a warming world: Protein biomarkers for heat stress and queen failure diagnostics - Alison McAfee, North Carolina State University, USA

Factors influencing colony survival in migratory beekeeping based on honey bee resistance traits - Michael Simone-Finstrom, USDA-ARS, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Temporal and spatial dynamics of pollinator communities across North Carolina agroecosystem - Hannah Levenson, North Carolina State University, USA

The effects of land cover on habitat quality for nesting bumblebees - Genevieve Pugesek, Tufts University, USA

Improving Bee Health in Canola Pollination - Shelley Hoover, Agriculture and Agri-Food, Canada

Mitigating Land Use Decisions that Destroy Bee Forage - George Hansen, Foothills Honey, Oregon, USA

Impact of landscape-scale floral resources availability on pollinator communities - Aaron Iverson, Cornell University, USA

Why are crops mainly visited by broadly polylectic bee species? - Katja Hogendoorn, The University of Adelaide, South Australia

12:15 p.m. - Lunch Break

Lunch is open from 11:30 AM—1:30 PM at Segundo Dining Commons

1:40 p.m. - Session 6: Pollinators in Urban Environments

Presentation by The Wonderful Company

Honoring new California Master Beekeeper graduates - Elina Nino, UC Davis, USA

Floral trophic ecology of a North American metropolis revealed by honey bee foraging assay - Doug Sponsler, Penn State University, USA

Pollinators and urban warming: A landscape physiology approach - Elsa Youngsteadt, North Carolina State University, USA

Green infrastructure to support urban wild bees: Communicating science to practitioners - Scott MacIvor, University of Toronto, Canada

Linking pollinator health, microbiome composition and human provisioning in Anna’s Hummingbird (Calypte anna) - Rachel Vannette, University of California Davis, USA

The effect of land use on a sexually selected characteristic of the cabbage white butterfly (Pieris rapae) in the United States - Anne Espeset, University of Nevada, Reno, USA

Urban pollinator conservation opportunities: integrating research with policy and practice - Katherine Baldock, University of Bristol, UK

Beekeeping ordinances: Protecting bees and neighbors - Tracy Ellis, San Diego County Department of Agriculture, California, USA

Beekeeping in the city: Successes and challenges - Charlie Blevins, San Francisco Beekeepers Association, USA

Urban pollinator conservation: Bee City USA as a model for meaningful community engagement - Phyllis Stiles, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Portland, Oregon, USA

Electric power companies protecting pollinators - Jessica Fox, Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, USA

5:00 p.m. - Closing remarks

Poster Sessions

Thursday July 18

Novel quantitative approaches

1	Plant-pollinator networks created from DNA metabarcoding data in eastern Oregon are more complex than those created from behavioral observations	Arstingstall	Katherine
2	INSIGHTS IN THE UNDERSTANDING OF FACTORS UNDERLYING THE STRUCTURE OF PLANT-POLLINATOR NETWORKS IN TROPICAL FORESTS	Cuartas Hernández	Sandra
3	Determining monarch (Danaus plexippus) natal site distribution in Nevada using stable isotope analysis and wing morphometrics	Gosse	Cassidy
4	USE OF VIDEO IN HONEY BEE MANAGEMENT	Gross	Bridget
5	Bees on the MAPP: establishing the Minnesota Agriculture for Pollinators Project landscape experiment	Herron-Sweet	Christina
6	Value of insect-mediated pollination service to apples in us industrial sectors using an input-output framework	Jordan	Alex
7	Managing Pollination Services: A Model of Substitution between Wild Pollinator Habitat and Honey Bee Hive Rental	Lichtenberg	Elinor
8	Land-use effects on the delivery of ecosystem services	Mandelik	Yael
9	Mechanics of honey bee pollen pellet removal	Matherne	Marguerite
10	The bees of Minnesota, progress to date	Portman	Zachary
11	The consequences of worker size variation on demography	Salazar	Timothy
12	DEEP LEARNING FOR IMAGE-BASED BEE IDENTIFICATION	Spiesman	Brian
13	BEES, MICROBIAL ‘MEAT,’ AND OTHER SACRILEGE	Steffan	Shawn
14	Evaluating shared pollinator taxa that provide services across	Willcox	Bryony
15	Improved spring low-temperature storage of Megachile rotundata	Yocum	George

Drivers of host-pathogen interactions

0	Eating microbes make for better bees	Dharampal	Prarthana
16	Does host lifestyle, genetics,	Damico	Megan
17	Mite migration and increasing deformed wing virus levels in honey bee colonies in the fall	DeGrandi-Hoffman	Gloria
18	Does habitat quality ‘dilute’ pollinator disease risk instead of biodiversity? ‘Habitat health’, an alternate explanation for reduced	Fearon	Michelle
19	Mechanisms mediating bee pathogen transmission: deposition, persistence and	Figueroa	Laura
20	The Unintended Antibiotic Target:	Hoopman	Alexis
21	Options for Chalkbrood Control in Multiple Bee Systems	Klinger	Ellen
22	The Effects of Copper on the Growth of a Bumble Bee Parasite, Crithidia bombi	Leger	Laura
23	Investigating the potential for pathogen spillover and pesticide exposure for honey bees and wild bees foraging from blueberry	Montero-Castaño	Ana
24	Microbial metabolites mediate bumble bee	Schaeffer	Robert
25	Antimicrobial Lipid Transfer Proteins are a Common Feature	Schmitt	Anthony
26	BIG BEES SPREAD DISEASE: A TRAIT-BASED APPROACH	VanWyk	Jennifer
27	SHARED FLOWERS, SHARED PARASITES? HONEY BEE FLORAL VISITATION IS LINKED	Zbrozek	Maryellen
28	Pollinator disease transmission dynamics:	Davis	Abby
29	Temporal dynamics of multi-host parasite prevalence in species-rich plant and pollinator communities	Muniz	Paige
30	DISEASE ECOLOGY OF NATIVE BEES	Hisatomi	Lauren
31	Deformed wing virus induces a metabolic switch	Heerman	Matthew
86	Nectar inhabiting microbes induce pollen germination	Christensen	Megan

Climate change impacts on bees

32	Changes in the phenology of the southeastern blueberry bee	Anderson	Sarah
33	Effects of Climate Change on Nesting Habits of Megachilidae Bee	Baldwin-Rowe	Janice
34	The Empire State Native Pollinator Survey – determining the conservation status of NY	Danforth	Bryan
35	EXPLORING REGIONAL VARIATION IN BLUE ORCHARD BEE PHENOLOGY, BEHAVIOR, AND REPRODUCTIVE	Dunn	Morgan
36	Effects of management techniques on reproductive strategy in crop-	Johnson	Makenna
37	Native bees exhibit species and ecosystem-specific changes in abundance with aridity	Kazenel	Melanie
38	The Assessing the Effects of Fluctuating Temperature Regimes on Commercial and Wild Bombus	Lindsay	Thuy Tien
39	Plant drought stress alters floral volatile emissions, and reduces	Mallinger	Rachel
40	The effect of temperature on Penstemon heterophyllus nectar and pollination success	Russell	Kaleigh

Causes and consequences of pesticide use

41	Toxicity of premixed insecticide chemistries to female blue orchard bees	Belsky	Joseph
42	Development and validation of a bumble bee adult chronic oral test	Cabrera	Ana
43	Genotoxicity Assessment of Agrochemicals	Campion	Claire
44	EFFECTS OF A COMMON FUNGICIDE ON OLFACTORY	DesJardins	Nicole
45	Pesticide exposure for bees during blueberry	Graham	Kelsey
46	Toxicity of some ready-to use garden pesticides to non-Apis bees	Joshi	Neelendra
47	Assessing the Effects of Common Garden Pesticides on Alfalfa	Kline	Olivia
48	PESTICIDE RISK REDUCTION FOR HONEY BEES THROUGH	Melathopoulos	Andony
49	The Impact of Thiamethoxam on Drone	North	Heather
50	A comparison of acute toxicity endpoints for adult honey bees with technical grade active	O'Neill	Bridget
51	Routes of exposure to solitary bees for pesticides	Pitts-Singer	Theresa
52	How does consumption of nectar secondary compounds impact bumblebees exposed to a neonicotinoid pesticide?	Richman	Sarah
53	Heterogeneous pesticide exposure and variation in mechanism and rate of honey bee colony losses	Rinkevich	Frank
54	Effects of fungicide on Bombus vosnesenskii microbiome composition and foraging choices	Rutkowski	Danielle
55	The importance of pesticide exposure	Schmehl	Daniel
56	Impacts of neonicotinoid pesticides on insect olfactory processing	Tatarko	Anna
57	Integrating Pest and Pollinator Management	Ternest	John
58	A side-by-side comparison of honey bee health in colonies	Underwood	Robyn
59	Pesticide exposure of wild bees visiting pollinator hedgerows	Ward	Laura
60	Quantifying pesticide contamination of bee-collected pollen in	Zawislak	Jon
61	The impact of viruses on honey bees at the individual and cellular levels	Flenniken	Michelle
	Sustainable landscape enhancement to reduce pesticide	Vakil	Surabhi

Friday, July 19

Integrative approaches & bee health

62	Maximizing the Potential and Minimizing the Cost of Prairie Seed Mix Design for Wild Bees	Borchardt	Kate
63	Wildflower plantings promote blue orchard bee, Osmia lignaria (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae), reproduction in California almond orchards	Boyle	Natalie
64	Optimization of pollinator seed mixes from low resolution data	Bruninga-Socolar	Bethanne
65	Floral foraging traits impact pollinator susceptibility to pesticides and parasites	Cohen	Hamutahl
66	Dissecting the physiology of the nurse worker	Corby-Harris	Vanessa
67	Calling all bee scientists: data needed to conserve native pollinators	Cornelisse	Tara
68	Effects of Native Ungulate Herbivory on Native	DeBano	Sandra
69	Nectar changes the ecological costs of defended pollen	Francis	Jacob
70	Assessing the vulnerability of specialty crops to pollinator decline in	Gaines Day	Hannah
71	EVALUATING INTENSIVELY MANAGED CONIFER FORESTS	Galbraith	Sara
72	Effect of native vegetation proximity on bee diversity	Groom	Scott
73	Sustainable landscape enhancement to reduce pesticide	Gupta Vakil	Surabhi
74	Diverse plates and picky eaters:	Guzman	Aidee
75	Saved by the pulse: temporal resource pulse	Hemberger	Jeremy
76	The Regulation of Pheromone Biosynthesis by MicroRNAs in the Mandibular Gland of the Honey Bee (Apis mellifera)	Jasper	W. Cameron
77	Wild bee responses to landscape resources and topography vary seasonally	Kammerer	Melanie
78	Honey bee preferences for lipid-rich pollen diets	Lau	Pierre
79	Effects of Nectar Contents on the Foraging Preferences of Honeybee (Apis mellifera) on Asian pear (Pyrus pyrifolia Nakai)	Lee	Kyeong Yong
80	Think big: Landscape variables predict	Liczner	Amanda
81	Native bee and shrub interactions	Mitchell	Scott
82	Corridors through time: does resource continuity impact pollinator	Nicholson	Charlie
83	PREFERRED PLANTS FOR POLLINATORS:	Nzie	Onyeka
84	Stingless bee nutrition altered by landscape simplification	Obregon	Diana
85	Habitat prescriptions for safeguarding wild bees	Pindar	Alana
86	Open for other session above
87	DO HERBACEOUS LAND ENHANCEMENTS ENHANCE HONEY BEE	Quinlan	Gabriela
89	DISSECTING THE ROLE OF NECTARY-SPECIFIC	Roy	Rahul
90	Utilizing whole genome sequencing to identify genomic signatures	Saelao	Perot
91	ANALYSIS OF NUTRIENT PROFILE OF POLLEN	Sayre-Chavez	Brooke
92	Direct and interactive effects of nutrition and pesticide stressors on the solitary bee Osmia lignaria	Stuligross	Clara
93	EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF PRESCRIBED FIRE	Tai	Taylor
94	Pesticides and other effects on honey bee colony health	Rinkevich	Frank
95	Plasticity in the pre-diapause nutrient sequestration period of bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) queens	Watrous	Kristal

Urban Pollinators

96	Investigating the attractiveness of native wildflowers	Anderson	Aaron
97	RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY USE	Bandivadekar	Ruta
98	Educating the Public About Bees: the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven	Casey	Christine
99	Identifying Trends and Gaps in Pollinator Health	Dias	Abigail
100	The role of commercial ornamental plant varieties	Erickson	Emily
101	BEE DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE IN URBAN LANDSCAPES	Keane	Kit
102	THE GEORGIA TECH URBAN HONEY BEE	Leavey	Jennifer
103	URBAN BEE DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE MONITORING	Mason	Lisa
104	ARE URBAN POLLINATOR PLANTINGS THE BEE’S KNEES	Park	Mia

Urban Pollinators

96	Investigating the attractiveness of native wildflowers	Anderson	Aaron
97	RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION TECHNOLOGY USE	Bandivadekar	Ruta
98	Educating the Public About Bees: the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven	Casey	Christine
99	Identifying Trends and Gaps in Pollinator Health	Dias	Abigail
100	The role of commercial ornamental plant varieties	Erickson	Emily
101	BEE DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE IN URBAN LANDSCAPES	Keane	Kit
102	THE GEORGIA TECH URBAN HONEY BEE	Leavey	Jennifer
103	URBAN BEE DIVERSITY AND ABUNDANCE MONITORING	Mason	Lisa
104	ARE URBAN POLLINATOR PLANTINGS THE BEE’S KNEES	Park	Mia

Pollinator ecology

106	The effect of landscape context on hoverfly communities	Deutsch	Kaitlin
107	Tritrophic interactions and monarch larval success	Diethelm	Aramee
108	Postfire environment reveals floral limitation	Mola	John
109	SPATIO-TERRITORIAL NETWORKS IN MALE CARPENTER	Schoof	Stefan
110	What factors affect the foraging pattern of bumble	Shibata	Akari
111	BEES IN THE TREES: FOREST CANOPY RESOURCES FOR ORCHARD POLLINATORS	Urban-Mead	Katherine
112	Drivers of bee-mediated pollen dispersal in a fragmented	Waananen	Amy
113	Potential resource competition between managed honey bees (Apis mellifera) and native bees within natural areas in Florida	Weaver	James
114	Pollinator Diversity in Northeastern Utah,	Williams	Mary-Kate