Looking at Pollen Up Close

Recently, senior Biology major Kellen Paine has started on a new project for the museum, on honeybees and pollen. Using a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), he can look at pollen grains collected from the legs of honeybees. Pollens from different flowers have distinct structures under magnification, and some experts can even identify the flower the …

What’s buzzing around here?

Senior biology major, Kellen Paine, has been working on organizing and cataloguing the museum's invertebrate collection this year. The museum has an extensive collection of bees, but a lack of identification on many of its specimens (the bees are in fact in a bit of a jumble). The bees were previously identified by Dr. Chandler, …