Resources

Books & Media Articles

A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee: Creating Habitat for Native Pollinators in Southern Ontario (purchase the book)

How Planting a Garden Can Boost Bees, Local Food and Resilience During the Coronavirus Crisis (link to the article)

Bumble Bees of North America: an Identification Guide (purchase the book)

How Wet’suwet’en Butterflies Offer Lesson in Resilience and Resistance (link to the article)

A Flower Patch for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee (download the free e-guide)

Give Bees a Chance: We Can’t Afford to Lose Our Wild Native Pollinators (link to the article)

Posters & Brochures

Bumble Bees of Southern Ontario Poster (PDF)

Flower Patch for the Rusty Patched Poster (PDF)

BumbleBeeWatch.org Postcard (PDF)

Bumble Bees are Essential Brochure (PDF)

journal articles

Connect with Dr. Colla’s entire body of work on Google Scholar or click on the titles below to access these open-source publications:

• Bartomeus, I., Ascher, J. S., Wagner, D., Danforth, B. N., Colla, S., Kornbluth, S., & Winfree, R. (2011). Climate-associated phenological advances in bee pollinators and bee-pollinated plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(51), 20645–20649.
• Chaudhury, A., & Colla, S. (2021). Next steps in dismantling discrimination: Lessons from ecology and conservation science. Conservation Letters, 14(2), e12774.
• Kerr, J. T., Pindar, A., Galpern, P., Packer, L., Potts, S. G., Roberts, S. M., Rasmont, P., Schweiger, O., Colla, S. R., Richardson, L. L., Wagner, D. L., Gall, L. F., Sikes, D. S., & Pantoja, A. (2015). Climate change impacts on bumblebees converge across continents. Science, 349(6244), 177–180.
• Colla, S. R., Gadallah, F., Richardson, L., Wagner, D., & Gall, L. (2012). Assessing declines of North American bumble bees (Bombus spp.) using museum specimens. Biodiversity and Conservation, 21(14), 3585–3595.
• Colla, S. R., & MacIvor, J. S. (2017). Questioning public perception, conservation policy, and recovery actions for honeybees in North America. Conservation Biology, 31(5), 1202–1204.
• Colla, S. R., Otterstatter, M. C., Gegear, R. J., & Thomson, J. D. (2006). Plight of the bumble bee: Pathogen spillover from commercial to wild populations. Biological Conservation, 129(4), 461–467.
• Colla, S. R., & Packer, L. (2008). Evidence for decline in eastern North American bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with special focus on Bombus affinis Cresson. Biodiversity and Conservation, 17(6), 1379.
• Colla, S. R., Willis, E., & Packer, L. (2009). Can green roofs provide habitat for urban bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)? Cities and the Environment, 2(1), 1–12.
• MacPhail, V. J., & Colla, S. R. (2020). Power of the people: A review of citizen science programs for conservation. Biological Conservation, 249, 108739.