Past Research

Margriet Hilda Dogterom (nee Wyborn)

EDUCATION

2001 - present.    Consulting Practice - CPC Consultants Ltd.

Jan, 2000.    Post doctoral Fellow, Simon Fraser University, B.C.

April, 1999 - present.    BeeDiverse Products. Implementation of amason bee program to create awarenewss into schools and into the market place.

1994-1999    Ph. D. Simon Fraser University, B. C. Thesis: Pollination by four species of bees on highbush blueberries.

1992-1993    Westgro Sales, Delta, Ltd. Bumble rearing of bombus Occidentalis and research on pollination of cranberries and blueberries with bumble bees.

1991    M. Sc. Mass storage of honey bee queens during the winter. Simon Fraser University, B. C.

1986-90    Honey bee colony inspector for the British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Foods.

Other

Founder of BeeScene, quarterly publications of the Honey Producers of British Columbia. editor 1985-89.

REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

Dogterom, M. H. 1998. Guidelines for monitoring pollination of tomatoes in greenhouses. British Columbia Greenhouse Vegetable Research Council.

Dogterom, M. H., A. Mukai, M. L. Winston 2000. Effect of pollen load size and source (self, outcross) on fruit and seed production in highbush blueberry Vaccinium corymbosum (Ericacea) bluecrop. Amer. J. Botany (accepted).

Dogterom, M. H. and M. L. Winston. 1999. Pollen storage and foraging by honey bees (Hymenoptera:apidae) in highbush blueberries (Ericaceae), cultivar Bluecrop. The Canadian Entomologist. 131:757-768.

Dogterom, M. H., J. A. Matteoni, and R. C. Plowright. 1998. Pollination of greenhouse tomatoes by the western North American Bombus vosnesenskii (Hymenoptera: Apidae). Journal of Economic Entomology 91:71-75.

Wyborn, M. H., M. L. Winston, and P. H. Laflamme. 1993. Mass storage of honey bee (Hymenoptera:Apidae) queens during the winter. Canadian Entomologist 125:113-128.

Wyborn, M. H., M. L. Winston, and P. H. Laflamme. 1993. Storing mated queens during the winter in managed honey bee colonies. American Bee Journal 133: 201-205.

Naumann, K., M. L. Winston, M. H. Wyborn and K. N. Slessor. 1990. Effects of synthetic, honey bee (Hymenoptera: Apidae) queen mandibular-gland pheromone on workers in packages. Journal of Economic Entomology 83:1271-1275.

Winston, M. L., K. N. Slessor, L. G. Willis, K. Naumann, H. A. Higo, M. H. Wyborn, and L. A. Kaminski. 1989. The influence of queen mandibular pheromones on worker attraction to swarm clusters and inhibition of queen rearing in the honey bee (Apis mellifera L.). Insectes Sociaux 36:15-27.

Wyborn, M. H. and D. McCutcheon. 1987. A comparison of dry and wet fumagillin treatments for spring nosema disease suppression of overwintered colonies. American Bee Journal 127:207-209.

PUBLICATIONS SUBMITTED

Dogterom, M. H. and D.N. Talling. Honey bee flight activity in winter under greenhouse conditions. Accepted. Ed. A. de Ruyter. Specialists meeting on insect pollination in greenhouses.

Dogterom, M. H. and M. L. Winston. Comparison of four bee species as pollinators of highbush blueberries 'Bluecrop' (Ericacea). submitted.

Dogterom, M. H. and M. L. Winston. Population biology and potential for managed pollination of the solitary bee Osmia lignaria propinqua Cresson. Submitted.

PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Dogterom, M. H. Pollen loading an an effective tool to determine if fruit production is or is not a pollination problem.

Dogterom, M. H. and D.N. Talling. 1999. Honey bee flight activity in winter under greenhouse conditions. Ed. A. de Ruyter. Specialists meeting on insect pollination in greenhouses. Netherlands.

Dogterom, M. H. and M. L. Winston. 1999. Are honey bees the best pollinators of highbush blueberry? Apimondia Congress 1999, Vancouver, B.C

Dogterom, M. H. and M. L. Winston. 1998. Native versus exotic bee species as pollinators of highbush blueberry. Annual Entomological Society of America Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada.

Dogterom, M. H. and M. L. Winston. 1997. Effect of pollen load on fruit and seed production in highbush blueberry. Annual Entomological Society of America Conference, Nashville, Tennessee.

Dogterom, M. H., M. L. Winston and P. Laflamme. 1989. Queen storage through the winter. Annual Entomological Society of America Conference in San Antonio, Texas.

Dogterom, M. H. and M. L. Winston. 1987. The development of Nosema apis in the honey bee. Annual Entomological