Introducing Jeremy Hemberger

Feb 09, 2016

Introducing Jeremy HembergerScience was always the subject in school that fascinated me and led me to ask questions.  Chemistry, biology, physics, astronomy - they all left me in awe and wanting to know more.  
In high school, I quickly realized that biology was the most fascinating of them all.  The complexity, diversity, and sheer beauty of living organisms captivated me.  How did they work?  How did the environment affect them?  Why were these beautiful and magnificent things disappearing at such a rapid rate?  What could we do to help?
My college coursework helped to steer me to ecology and eventually to entomology.  I quickly realized that I was an ecologist at heart, and in how I viewed the world around me.  The questions that I asked were ecologically framed, and the organisms that I wanted to examine these questions with, were insects.  Their dominance across the globe, diversity, beauty, and importance all helped me to fall more and more in love with insects.  

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What's best for bees? Radio tracking bumblebee foraging to determine the best bee environments

University of Wisconsin - Department of Entomology

Bees are essential insects that help to provide us with hundreds of types of fruits, vegetables, and other foods. Despite their importance, human activity threatens bees across the world, especially via changes and losses in habitat. However, we still don't know what the best types of environments are for most wild bees (e.g. natural vs. managed agricultural lands). This project aims to use a novel method examining bee foraging behavior to let bees tell us where they prefer and thrive.