Elena P.

Elena has a background in biology and about 8 years of beekeeping experience, keeping around 20 colonies in eastern North Dakota. Her interests are honey bee behaviour, colony biology, pollination, reproduction, communication and the relationship between colonies and the landscape around them. She writes on bee biology, queen and worker roles, reproduction, communication, pollination, bee-friendly planting and colony development. She is also one of the fact checkers here: biological claims and scientific explanations are reviewed by her before publication. She belongs to a regional beekeeping association. Her articles here are mostly on bee biology, foraging, queens, pollination and colony establishment, which is where questions about why a colony behaves the way it does tend to land. Most of her own articles are second-reviewed by Michael R., and she is in turn the second reviewer on most of Sofia T.'s honey and equipment articles, where her job is to check the science behind what those articles say about honey quality, beeswax and bee behaviour.