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Dr. John Purdy is a corporate environmental consultant and research scientist for Abacus Consulting Services in Canada. He received his MSc in Chemistry and Forestry, then his PhD in Chemistry, both from the University of Toronto. His work includes ground-breaking research on environmental behavior and modeling of pesticides, ecotoxicology, and effects of pesticides on bees. His primary research interests are honey bees and other insect pollinators. Dr. Purdy is a co-chair of the annual pollinator risk assessment of the American Chemical Society, a member of the International Commission for Plant Pollinator Relationships, and more.
""...an introduction to the foraging ecology of the world’s dominant pollinating insect, the western honey bee.... The introductory chapter is especially good [and] includes an especially complete illustration and table detailing important clades from the ancestral Hymenoptera, through the origin of true bees from ammoplanine (thrips hunting) wasps, and up to the groups within the family Apidae, tribe Apini, and species of the largely paleotropical honey bee genus Apis. Geological time estimates, and supporting references, are given for these evolutionary changes that are rarely present in other volumes on honey bees and their biology.... Another excellent discussion is Chapter 6 on pollination ecology...."" --Stephen L. Buchmann, The Quarterly Review of Biology
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