Usually urban bees are pollinating on your garden flowers or have a colony by a local beekeeper. Here we have a door jamb that was broken, then co-opted as a cozy home for a bee.
Cute #urban #wildlife alert! Screen door broke a while back, left small holes where it used to be screwed into the door jamb. Enterprising mason bee (I think) made a nest out of it! Here you can see front view and hind view, with pollen collected under the abdomen. pic.twitter.com/f5uC0y3PWH
— Sofia Prado-Irwin (@sofiaraye) July 3, 2020
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I am interested in urban ecology and evolution. Urbanization can have drastic impacts on local ecosystems, both negative and positive, and creates a new environment for organisms to experience. To understand the impacts that urbanization plays on organisms, I look through the lense of population genetics and molecular evolution.
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