The MountBuzz Borneo team 2026 consisted of Andrea Errante – his third trip within the MountBuzz project now! – Julian Gericke, Isabella Fresner and Hong Chen. They were further accompanied by PAIn lab member Ben Lazarus, who introduced the team to artificial vibration experiments and single visit experiments with bees. The team was lucky in…

Lalaina and Tsito from our Madagascar MountBuzz team had just finished their first year of data collection in December 2025, when starting to make plans to go back to the field in February 2026. The reason was that during the October-December fieldwork, while highly successful for finding certain genera such as Medinilla in flower, few…

In late March 2026, the MountBuzz Brazil team wrapped up fieldwork in the Atlantic Forest in Eastern Brazil, where they had spent three months revisiting sites we had worked at in 2025, and scouting for a few new sites and species. Throughout the fieldwork, the team struggled with heavy rainfalls and bad weather – which…