UM Todaypollinators – UM Today https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca Your Source for University of Manitoba News Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:13:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Winnipeg Free Press: Bee’s needs Entomology student’s research, photography aims to help save ‘one of the most important’ bugs on the planet https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/winnipeg-free-press-bees-needs-entomology-students-research-photography-aims-to-help-save-one-of-the-most-important-bugs-on-the-planet/ https://umtoday-wordpress.ad.umanitoba.ca/winnipeg-free-press-bees-needs-entomology-students-research-photography-aims-to-help-save-one-of-the-most-important-bugs-on-the-planet/#respond Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:32:32 +0000 https://news.umanitoba.ca/?p=203276 Bee’s needs Entomology student’s research, photography aims to help save ‘one of the most important’ bugs on the planet]]> Shoulder-high big bluestem grasses sway in graceful unison as a stiff west wind gusts through the south block of the Manitoba Tall Grass Prairie Preserve.

Thilina Hettiarachchi, a PhD student in the department of entomology at the University of Manitoba, and Reid Miller, a U of M field research assistant, are checking various sampling stations for bees and other pollinators.

A journalist is tramping along with them through the narrow, barely discernible trail on this luminous late August day.

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