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Spivak graduated from Humboldt State University and from the University of Kansas.
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Marla Spivak
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She was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship grant in 2010 for her work with honey bees. After receiving the MacArthur grant, she started an organization called the Bee Squad, which works to help people in the community get involved in helping bees. She is particularly well-known for her work breeding lines of honey bees that detect and quickly remove diseased larvae and pupae, which is called hygienic behavior.
More recently, she has begun studying the role of resins, which bees collect and mix with wax to make propolis coatings on the inside of their hives, an example of honey bee social immunity.
Her lab also studies the effect of the surrounding landscape on the health and nutrition of both honey bees and native bees.
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