“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
PUBLICATIONS
“The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel”
- Claude Bernard -

Journal Publications

Posters and Presentations

Guest Lectures
Nooten SS, Odanaka KA, Rehan
SM (2020) Characterization of
wild bee communities in apple
and blueberry
orchards. Agricultural and
Forest Entomology.
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Odanaka KA, Rehan SM (2020) Wild bee
distribution near forested
landscapes is dependent on
successional state. Forest
Ecosystems
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Nooten SS, Odanaka KA, & Rehan SM
(2020) Effects of Farmland and
Seasonal Phenology on Wild
Bees in Blueberry Orchards.
Northeastern Naturalist
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Odanaka KA, Rehan SM (2019) Impact
indicators: effects of land use
management on functional trait and phylogenetic diversity of
wild bees. Agriculture,
Ecosystems and Environment.
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Odanaka KA, Gibbs J, Turley N, Isaacs
R, Brudvig L (2019) Canopy
thinning, not agricultural
history, determines early
responses of wild bees to
longleaf pine savanna
restoration. Restoration Ecology.
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Odanaka K, Branstetter M, Rehan S (July
2021) Phylogeny and biogeography
of the cleptoparasitic bee genus
Nomada revisited. Oral
presentation, Canadian Society for
Ecology and Evolution, Vancouver,
BC, Canada
Odanaka K, Branstetter M, Rehan S (Nov
2020) Insights into the phylogeny
and biogeography of the
cleptoparasitic bee genus Nomada.
Oral presentation, Entomological
Society of America, Orlando,
FL, USA
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Odanaka K, Branstetter M, Rehan S (Oct
2020) Insights into the phylogeny
and biogeography of the
cleptoparasitic bee genus Nomada.
Oral presentation, Beecon, Toronto,
ON, Canada
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Odanaka K, Rehan S (Aug 2019) Effects of
land use on wild bee functional and
phylogenetic diversity. Oral
presentation, Beecon, Toronto,
ON, Canada
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Odanaka K, Rehan S (April 2019) Use of
phylogenetic diversity as an aid in
wild bee conservation. Oral
presentation, Graduate Research
Conference, Durham, NH USA
Odanaka K, Rehan S (November 2018) Use
of phylogenetic diversity as an aid
in wild bee conservation. Oral
presentation, Entomological Society
of America, Vancouver, BC Canada
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Odanaka K (April 2018) Stability of wild bee
communities in successional
landscapes. Poster presentation,
Graduate Research Conference,
Durham, NH, USA
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Odanaka K, Rehan S (Nov 2017) Stability of
wild bee communities in
successional landscapes.
Poster presentation, Entomological
Society of America, Denver, CO,
USA
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Odanaka K, Gibbs J, Turley N, Isaacs R,
Brudvig L (June 2016) The effects
of longleaf pine savanna restoration
on bee diversity. Oral presentation,
62nd Annual Michigan
Entomological Society Meeting,
Bellaire, MI, USA
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Odanaka K, Gibbs J, Turley N, Isaacs R,
Brudvig L (March 2016) Longleaf
pine savanna restoration increases
native bee diversity. Poster
presentation, Plant Science
Graduate Student Research
Symposium 2016, East Lansing,
MI, USA
Gunderson K, Gibbs J, Kowitz C, Odanaka
K, Quinlan G, Isaacs R (November
2015) Foraging activity and
pollination by managed colonies of
Bombus impatiens (Hymenoptera:
Apidae) in highbush blueberry
(Vaccinium corymbosum). Poster
presentation, Entomological Society
of America 2015, Minneapolis,
MN, USA
Oct 2018 Univ. of New Hampshire
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Oct 2017 Univ. of New Hampshire
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Sept 2017 Plymouth State Univ.
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Awards


2020 MITACS Research Training Award
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2020 York University Research/Fieldwork
Cost Fund Award
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2019 Carswell Scholarship
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2018 NSF GRFP Honorable Mention