
F.W.L. Sladen
“Everybody knows the burly, good-natured bumblebee. Clothed in her lovely coat of fur, she is the life of the gay garden as well as the modestly blooming wayside as she eagerly hums from flower to flower”
PUBLICATIONS

Dibble, A.C., A.L. Averill, K. Bickerman-Martens, S.C. Bosworth, S. Bushmann, F.A. Drummond, J. Fowler, A.K. Hoshide, M.E. Leach, L.L. Richardson, E. Venturini, and A. White. 2018. Bees and their habitats in four New England states. Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station Miscellaneous Report 448: 50 pp.
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Bickerman-Martens, K., B. Swartz, R. Butler, and F.A. Drummond. 2017. Documenting the Diversity, Distribution, and Status of Maine Bumble Bees: The Maine Bumble Bee Atlas and Citizen Scientists. Maine Policy Review 26(2): 43-49.
Bickerman-Martens, K.E. and F. Drummond. 2015. The effects of foraging on imidacloprid-treated lowbush blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium) on the development of Bombus impatiens colonies. In: Insect Pest Management Experiments on Wild Blueberries in Maine. F. Drummond, J. Collins, and E. Ballman, eds. School of Biology and Ecology, Cooperative Extension, University of Maine. Maine Blueberry Commission Report.
Bickerman-Martens, K.E. and F. Drummond. 2015. Bumblebee species distributions and phenology in Midcoast and Downeast Maine. In: Insect Pest Management Experiments on Wild Blueberries in Maine. F. Drummond, J. Collins, and E. Ballman, eds. School of Biology and Ecology, Cooperative Extension, University of Maine. Maine Blueberry Commission Report.
Tomaszewicz, C.N.T., J.A. Seminoff, L. Avens, L.R. Goshe, S.H. Peckham, J.M. Rodriguez-Baron, K. Bickerman, and C. M. Kurle. 2015. Determining age and residency duration of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) at a North Pacific bycatch hotspot using skeletochronology. Journal of Biological Conservation 186: 134-142.
Bickerman, K.E. and F. Drummond. 2014. The health of bumble bees in blueberry fields in Downeast Maine. In: Insect Pest Management Experiments on Wild Blueberry in Maine. J. Collins and F. Drummond, eds. School of Biology and Ecology, Cooperative Extension, University of Maine. Maine Blueberry Commission Report.
Bickerman, K.E. and F. Drummond. 2013. The health of native bumble bees in blueberry fields in Downeast Maine and the effects of dietary imidacloprid on managed B. impatiens colonies. In: Insect Pest Management Experiments on Wild Blueberry in Maine. J. Collins and F. Drummond, eds. School of Biology and Ecology, Cooperative Extension, University of Maine. Maine Blueberry Commission Report, 137 pp.
Bickerman, K.E. and F. Drummond. 2012. The health of native bumble bees in blueberry fields in Downeast Maine and the effects of dietary imidacloprid on managed B. impatiens colonies. In: Insect Pest Management Experiments on Wild Blueberry in Maine. J. Collins and F. Drummond, eds. School of Biology and Ecology, Cooperative Extension, University of Maine. Maine Blueberry Commission Report, 107 pp.