Scientific Publications

I would recommend checking my Google Scholar for the most recent research publications list.

One this page, you should be able to scroll through short posts including the abstract, citation, and (hopefully) downloadable copy of all my research papers once they are available, with a summary of links below.

 

Frontiers in effective control of problem parasites in beekeeping - International Journal for Parasitology 2022

Assessing Repeated Oxalic Acid Vaporization in Honey Bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) Colonies for Control of the Ectoparasitic Mite Varroa destructor - Journal of Insect Science 2022 

Honey Bees (Apis mellifera Hymenoptera: Apidae) Preferentially Avoid Sugar Solutions Supplemented with Field-Relevant Concentrations of Hydrogen Peroxide Despite High Tolerance Limits - Journal of Insect Science 2022

The central role of host reproduction in determining the evolution of virulence in spatially structured populations. - Journal of Theoretical Biology 2021

A computational approach to tracking age-based task frequency distributions of Apis mellifera worker cohorts. - Journal of Apicultural Research 2021

Persistent effects of management history on honeybee colony virus abundances - Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 2021

Resource quality determines the evolution of resistance and its genetic basis - Molecular Ecology 2020

The target of selection matters: An established resistance–development‐time negative genetic trade‐off is not found when selecting on development time - Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2020

Industrial bees: The impact of apicultural intensification on local disease prevalence - Journal of Applied Ecology 2019

A genotypic trade‐off between constitutive resistance to viral infection and host growth rate - Evolution 2018

Identifying regions of risk to honey bees from Zika vector control in the USA - Journal of Apicultural Research 2018

Re‐evaluating strategies for pollinator‐dependent crops: How useful is parthenocarpy? - Journal of Applied Ecology 2017

Synergistic impacts of habitat loss and fragmentation on model ecosystems - PRSB 2016

Robustness despite uncertainty: regional climate data reveal the dominant role of humans in explaining global extinctions of Late Quaternary megafauna - Ecography 2016

 

Fieldwork at Blue Ridge Honey Company trial apiaries, where we are testing new parasite control methods for EPA approval and also sampling parasites for resistance monitoring in collaboration with the USDA - Summer 2021

Presenting some new papers at Young Harris Beekeeping Institute - 2018