At one point early in my career I was recognized as the world’s expert in the labiomaxillary complex of the long-tongued bees, at least among the half-dozen or so entomologists for whom bee mouthparts mattered. I achieved this obscure recognition…
Saving Bees Can Teach Us Lessons (op-ed, The Scotsman)
The Scotsman, 17 December 2014, op ed “Saving Bees Can Teach Us Lessons” http://www.scotsman.com/news/mark-winston-saving-bees-can-teach-us-lessons-1-3635984
The Road Not Taken
We all have our life-fork stories, those crossroads where we could have gone one way but chose another. I was reminded about one of my road-not-taken moments last week, at the Entomological Society of America (ESA) meetings in Portland, Oregon.…
Pathways to Urban Nature (Seattle times op-ed)
Seattle Times, 10 November 2015, “Pathways to Urban Nature” http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2024979208_markwinstonopedbeesxml.html
The Collaboration Room
I received an unusual honor a few weeks ago: Simon Fraser University named a room after me, the Mark L. Winston Collaboration Room. It generally takes a hefty donation to inspire a university to name a room, a level of…
The Book is Out!
Bee Time: Lessons From the Hive is more or less officially out. Hard copies have arrived in most bookstores and can be found for sale on the usual websites; the e-book will be available 6 October from Amazon and…
The Feel of a Good Book
I was stunned to receive the first copy of my new book, Bee Time: Lessons From the Hive, in the mail the other day. Stunned because it is beautifully produced physically; in all the tumult of writing and revising and…
Our Bees, Ourselves (New York Times)
Op-Ed in the New York Times, 14 July 2014 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/15/opinion/bees-and-colony-collapse.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=c-column-top-span-region®ion=c-column-top-span-region&WT.nav=c-column-top-span-region&_r=0
“The Bees” by Laline Paull
There’s a new novel out that’s climbing the bestseller charts, The Bees by Laline Paull, with worker bee Flora 717 as its main character and a fast-moving plot that reads like a Stephen King thriller. Paull’s book is reminiscent of…
Highways BEE Act
There’s new legislation just proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Highways Bettering the Economy and Environment Act (BEE Act), designed to improve the lot of non-voters: wild bees and managed honeybees. The act was introduced by two representatives…