Submit your Abstract - Submission closes August 2nd 2026 Register for BeeCon 2026 - Registration closes September 30th 2026 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Paul CaraDonna In person talk on Friday Paul CaraDonna, Chicago Botanic Garden, Northwestern University, & The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Paul CaraDonna, PhD, is a Conservation Scientist and Professor at the Chicago Botanic […]
Full Program with Abstracts Two Page Schedule at a Glance Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jessica Forrest Jessica Forrest is a Full Professor in the Biology Department at the University of Ottawa, where she has been based since 2013. For her PhD, she worked with James Thomson (at the University of Toronto), who introduced her to RMBL […]
The in-person attendees at BeeCon 2024. They were joined by hundreds of people online as well! BeeCon 2024 was a hybrid event that brought together bee biologists on a global scale to discuss bees, collection methods, pollination, genomics, conservation and behaviour. BeeCon took place on Oct. 17 (via Zoom Webinar) and on Oct 18 with […]
12noon Eastern Time, Thursday, May 18, 2023 over Zoom Presented by Dr. Laurence Packer, Distinguished Professor of Biology and Dr. Victoria MacPhail, BEEc Coordinator. In this Scholars’ Hub Presentation, learn about the research undertaken by the Centre for Bee Ecology, Evolution and Conservation (BEEc), a network of faculty, staff, and students based at York University […]
Join us for a Cocktail Fundraiser for the Maria Stea Award – May 17, 2023, at the Angus Glen Golf Club (Mackenzie Hall), 10080 Kennedy Rd, Markham, Ontario. Maria Stea was the Associate Director of Advancement for the Faculty of Science at York University, and a big supporter of BEEC, when she died in 2019 […]
BEEc and the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change invite everyone (students, staff, faculty, community members) to join them for a Garden Party on Tuesday, May 16 from 2:30-5pm outside HNES on Keele Campus at York University. In celebration of World Bee Day on the following Saturday, everyone is welcome to drop by our outreach table to […]
Registration is now closed. Thank you to everyone who registered. Please visit the BeeCon 2025 conference page for more information about the event. This event is hosted by the Centre for Bee Ecology, Evolution and Conservation at York University.
The call for abstracts is now closed for BeeCon 2025! If you have submitted an abstract but not registered, please do so. Thank you to everyone who have submitted their abstract. Review process will begin now and you will be contacted if you have been selected. This event is hosted by the Centre for Bee […]
What is BeeBST? Bee Biogeography and Systematics Talks (BeeBST) is a series of monthly webinars on bee systematics, taxonomy and biogeography. It is aimed at a general audience of people interested in bees and pollinators, and especially with those interested in bee classification and biogeography. The taxonomy of giant honey bees, biogeography of bumble bees, […]
Beyond the research published in scientific journals, we occasionally have an opportunity to write and we want to share our collective BEEc Library with you! What's this virtual library about?? You guessed it - bees 🙂 See below for the books and chapters that we already have published, and stay tuned (there are more coming!!). […]