Education
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University. University of Georgia.
Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University. University of Georgia.
He is currently the research leader at the United States Department of Agriculture"s Beltsville Bee Laboratory (BBL). His research has led to significant breakthroughs in understanding and managing charge-coupled device, a primary cause of North American bee population decline. He is also known for discovering with Dennis vanEngelsdorp of Pennsylvania State University the ability of bees to detect pesticides and harmful fungi in collected pollen and subsequently quarantine the harmful substances from the rest of the hive.
His research has also studied the synergistic effects of Imidacloprid on bees, an insecticide derived from nicotine which has been shown to cause charge-coupled device.