Zoology Lab

Welcome to the Laboratory of Zoology in Mons!

Our research focuses on wild bees — from Andrena to Xylocopa and everything in between. Explore our website to learn more about our team and the bees.

Our team is particularly multidisciplinary. Our main researches focus on topics such as biogeography, integrative taxonomy, phylogeny, phylogeopraphy, chemical ecology, immunology, plant-bees interactions or wild bees conservation.

To know more about our research, visit the team page on Researchgate:

We welcome students for internships (Bachelor, Masters, etc.) and to candidate for Phd grants.

If you are interested in joining the team please contact Denis Michez or Guillaume Ghisbain.

Fresh News

Recherche

Projected decline in European bumblebee populations: an inter-university study published in Nature

14 September 2023

Belgian researchers of the Universities of Brussels (ULB, VUB), Mons (UMons), and Louvain (UCLouvain, KU Leuven) just published in the journal Nature a study dedicated to the decline in European bumblebee populations in the 21st century. Continue reading

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