Roger Schürch

@schuemaa.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor in the Department of Entomology at Virginia Tech. My research is on mapping #HoneyBee waggle dances and airborne environmental DNA (#eDNA). I am interested in #Emacs, #Orgmode, and #Rstats. Also at @schuemaa@ecoevo.social.

A bee is sitting at the entrance of a burrow she has dug from the beige soil. Her head is facing the camera, the two black antenna are blurred at the tip as they leave the plane of focus. The two large compound eyes and the mouth parts are visible. Behind that, slightly out of focus, we can also see the dark legs with light hairs and the thorax, almost completely covered in hair. Around her are the clumps of soil from the the excavation of the burrow.
A honey bee forager is sitting on an artificial feeder that is placed on a small table covered in blue table cloth. The bee is marked on her thorax with a yellow number tag. The blurry background is green grass. The feeder is an inverted jar that holds sugar syrup stuck in a base with grooves that dispense the syrup to the bees. The bee sticks its tongue into a groove to slurp up the sweet, sweet syrup.
The photo shows two men in scholarly robes in front of a maroon VT (Virginia Tech) logo on a gray building.
An iridescent green bee (Augochlora pura), pinned on a label giving coordinates and trapping method.