Very proud of PhD student Cedric Maforimbo, who successfully defended his PhD thesis in viva today!
Cedric's research work is really interesting - he has piloted some new methods to identify #pollen loads on #bees & match with plants in the field margin. He has also carried out a tonne of fieldwork addressing some of our knowledge gaps around the role of field margins in support crop pollination in African legume systems, given us a load more information about what pollinates common bean (we REALLY need to understand the distribution of Xylocopa spp. and their habitat needs), and been a great colleague.
Pleasure to work with a brilliant supervisory team Phil Stevenson, Angela Mkindi, Steve Harte.
Well done Cedric!
#PollinationEcology #ChemicalEcology #CropPollination #Xylocopa #Kilimanjaro







