Associate Professor Pollinator Biologist @ Virginia Tech - and a mom of two - who loves coffee and (more) sleep. Interested in how insect pollinators find food in the landscape, with a special focus on dancing honey bees. She/her
Maggie Couvillon
We are searching for a new Department Head of Entomology at Virginia Tech. Come work in lovely Blacksburg with some pretty cool people and spectatular students.
Please repost and spread the word. Review Date 4/26/26.
jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/profess...
Come have fun with us! Our departement at VT is hiring an Assistant Professor of Agricultural Entomology and Applied Ecology! Check out the job advert here:
careers.entsoc.org/jobs/21758211
Do foraging bees from adjacent colonies converge or partition resources? Check out our new paper, where former student Brad Ohlinger and collaborator/husband Roger Schürch performed statistical wizardry on 8000+ waggle dances from 9 colonies to investigate. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
When a resource hotspot, identified by waggle dancing bees, is developed by humans, how does that alter the foraging dynamics of honey bees ? Check out our new paper, where Rob Ostrom and collaborator/husband Roger Schürch took a before/after snapshot of bee landscape use.
doi.org/10.1242/bio....
A New Toy for Serious Science Allows for Individual Honey Bee Forager Tracking. Read about exciting work from Stentiford, Harrap et al. from the Straw lab that delivered a decisive one–two punch to the long-standing challenge of tracking foraging honey bees.
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mkeE3QW8S...
Some cool work that my (former, now fully minted) Ph.D. student @twoleglaura.bsky.social did on the impacts of herbicide on honey bee behavior and brains when she was in my lab. This study was published last year, but it got some renewed interest today. Great stuff, Laura!
phys.org/news/2026-04...
Congrats to my former student Dr. Laura McHenry for publishing her last chapter from her Ph.D., a social network analysis that describes how waggle dance information propagates through a hive. www.frontiersin.org/.../frbee.20...
If you are interested in bee immunology, come to Virginia Tech! Dr. Enakshi Gosh is hiring a post-doc. More details here: jobs.apply.vt.edu/jobs/postdoc...
I'm looking for a graduate student (either PhD or master's) to join my lab starting Jan 2026. If you know any students in social behavior and evolution (and termites!), please let them know!
Maggie Couvillon
Maggie Couvillon
Maggie Couvillon
Maggie Couvillon
The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4)
🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳
Maggie Couvillon
Roger Schürch
Armando Rosario-Lebrón
Nobuaki Mizumoto
phys.org
Cultivating flowering plants for pollinator gardens, commercial farms, or home landscapes often relies on the use of herbicides to manage unwanted weeds. Honeybees are attracted to these locations and...
Exciting opportunity in Blacksburg, VA for Virginia Tech Department of Entomology as a Assistant ...
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Virginia Tech seeks applications and nominations for the position of Professor and Head of the Department of Entomology, a tenured twelve-month academic and administrative appointmen...
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The Ghosh Lab is seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Associate to work on a research project investigating immune priming and disease dynamics in bumble bees. The successful cand...
The USGS Bee Lab supports research on native bees. As part of that program we and our co-located USFWS partners develop identification tools and keys for native bee species, take public access hi reso...
