by Grace Twiston-Davies | Jul 20, 2018 | BumbleBEEHAVE, Outreach
Guest blog by Eloise Hedgecott From an outside perspective of someone who knows embarrassingly little about bees, working alongside Prof Juliet Osborne’s bee research group for a week seemed rather a daunting prospect. Or so I felt on Monday, the beginning of my...
by Grace Twiston-Davies | Nov 2, 2017 | Applications, BumbleBEEHAVE, Bumblebees, Impact, Outreach
BEE-STEWARD is a computer program of virtual bees in digital landscapes developed by researchers at the ESI that can be used to predict the effects of different land management on pollinator survival and pollination rates. Now, joining forces with farmers and...
by Grace Twiston-Davies | Oct 26, 2016 | BEESCOUT, Outreach, Publications
Our latest model BEESCOUT (download here) has recently been showcased at the International Congress of Entomology and published in the Journal Ecological Modelling. BEESCOUT predicts landscape exploration behaviour of bumblebees and honeybees and is based on...
by Grace Twiston-Davies | Jul 21, 2016 | BEEHAVE, BEESCOUT, Honeybees, Outreach
By Tim Penny In the last week of May 2016, the BEEHAVE group had a great opportunity to display our models during the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) showcase. This was a two-day review of representative projects conducted by ESI staff encompassing the...
