Research topics: Pollination ecology, lichenology, mycology
Research program: My current pollination research includes the effects of invasive plants on native pollinator foraging behavior on native plants in Acadia National Park, the overwintering potential of queen bumblebees in the lowbush blueberry agroecosystem, the effects of clearcutting and herbicides on native bees and other Hymenoptera in Maine, and conservation of native bees. Other areas of research interests include the effects of management practices on the incidence and severity of fungal pathogens of lowbush blueberry, lichen-invertebrate interactions (e. g. dispersal of lichens by insects; lichens serving as shelter and food), and lichen health on red spruce along an air pollution gradient.
Selected Publications
Stubbs, C. S. and F. A. Drummond. 2001. Strategies for conserving mason bees, pp. 95-112. In C. S. Stubbs and F. A. Drummond (Editors), Bees and Crop Pollination- Crisis, Crossroads, Conservation. Thomas Say Publications in Entomology, Entomological Society of America, Lanham, Maryland. 156pp.
Stubbs, C. S., and F. A. Drummond. 2001. Bombus impatiens (Hymenoptera: Apidae): an alternative to Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Apidae) for lowbush blueberry pollination. Journal of Economic Entomology 94 (3): 609-616.
Stubbs, C. S., F. A. Drummond, and J. A. Collins. 1999. Effects of Asana® XL, impacts on honey bees and alfalfa leafcutting bees, pollinators of lowbush blueberry, 1998. Arthropod Management Tests 23: 52.
Stubbs, C. S. 1995. Dispersal of soredia by the oribatid mite, Humerobates arborea. Mycologia 87(4): 454-458.
Stubbs, C. S., H. A. Jacobson, E. A. Osgood and F. A. Drummond. 1992. Alternate Forage Plants for Native (Wild) Bees Associated with Lowbush Blueberry, Vaccinium spp. in Maine. Maine Agricultural Experimental Station Technical Bulletin 148, University of Maine. Orono, ME, USA
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