Programme

Full Programme

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

*Subject to change

DAY 1: MONDAY, 16 OCTOBER 2023

08:30 - 10:00 Set up of exhibition tables

08:30 - 17:30 Registration

10:00 - 10:30 Symposium Opening Session

10:30 - 11:00 Tea / Coffee Break Foyer

Plenary Session Chairperson: Connal Eardley

11:00 - 12:30 Evolution of Flowers Under Pollinator Change Maria Clara Castellanos

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break Foyer / Gardens

Floral Advertisements Organiser and Chairperson: Elza Guimarăes & Priscila Tunes

14:00 - 14:20 Temporal and Spatial Variations in Floral Advertisements Elza Maria Guimarăes Santos

14:20 - 14:40 Landscape-Scale Structuring of Flower Colour Across Pollinator Mosaics in Cape Daisies Allan G. Ellis

14:40 - 15:00 Does Florivory Affect Floral Scent Emission Along Flower Lifetime? Priscila Teixeira Tunes

15:00 - 15:20 Pollination Ecotypes: The Key Roles of Flower Color, Morphology and Scent Chemistry in Pollinator Shifts Within Three South African Plant Species Ruth Cozien

15:20 - 15:50 Tea / Coffee Break Foyer

Floral Advertisements Organiser and Chairperson: Elza Guimarăes & Priscila Tunes

15:50 - 16:10 The Role of Short-Tongued Flies as Pollinators in Southern African High Elevation Systems: A Case Study of Crassula Peploides Crassulaceae Nkitseng Oageng Modise

16:10 - 16:30 Pollinator-Mediated Adaptive Wandering in a Florally Diverse Annual Daisy: Dimorphotheca pluvialis-sinuata (Asteraceae) Arjan Engelen

16:30 - 16:50 When Flowers Bleed to Cheat - Deceptive Pollination Strategies in South African Ceropegia (Apocynaceae) Annemarie Heiduk

16:50 - 17:10 Floral Diversification Driven by A Pollinator Shift in The Duvernoia Clade of Justicia Arjun Adit

17:10 - 17:30 Can Drought Affect Floral Colour to Bees in An Agricultural Pollination System? Priscila Teixeira Tunes

17:30 Free Evening

DAY 2: TUESDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2023

08:00 - 18:00 Registration

Plenary Session Chairperson: Patricia Nunes Silva

09:00 - 10:30 So, You Want to Study Orchid Pollination: Maximizing Observations and Data Sets Peter Bernhardt

10:30 - 11:00 Tea / Coffee Break Foyer

Climate Change & Land Use Effects on Pollinators Organiser: Patricia Nunes Silva Chairperson: Sjirk Geerts

11:00 - 11:30 Moving With Your Mutualist: Predicted Climate-Induced Mismatch Between Proteaceae Species and Their Avian Pollinators Sjirk Geerts

11:30 - 11:50 Soil And Atmospheric Nutrient Enrichment Alter How Larger Plant-Pollinator Networks Organized Across the Globe Adrian David Gonzalez Chaves

11:50 - 12:10 The Buzz About Town: The Effects of Urbanisation on Bee and Wasp Communities in Cape Town, South Africa Gemma Walker

12:10 - 12:30 Drivers Of Diversity and Community Structure of Bees in an Agroecological Region of Zimbabwe Gugulethu Tarakini

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break Foyer / Gardens

Climate Change & Land Use Effects on Pollinators Organiser: Patricia Nunes Silva Chairperson: Sjirk Geerts

14:00 - 14:20 Relationship Between Temporal Dynamics of Flowers and Climate Change Amanda Eburneo Martins

14:20 - 14:40 Bee Functional Traits and Climate Variability Drive Bee Phenological Patterns in Tropical and Subtropical Regions Paula María Montoya Pfeiffer

14:40 - 15:00 Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change on Lepidopteran Pollinator Communities: Insights from a 30-Year Dataset in Finland Emilie E. Ellis

15:00 - 15:20 Fire Maintains Coexistence of Divergent Flower Forms Sam Zamosa McCarren

15:20 - 16:00 Tea / Coffee Break Foyer

Pollinator Taxonomy Organiser and Chairperson: Connal Eardley

16:00 - 16:20 A Growing Need for Taxonomy Connal Eardley

16:20 - 16:40 Characterization Of the Diversity of Pollinating Insects and Their Interactions with The Flora of the "Agro Foręts Pour Le Développement De Kipushi" (Afodek) Perimeter. Pierre Makolo Kasongo

16:40 - 17:00 A Knowledge Collation Process Towards SANParks's First State of The Knowledge Report on Invertebrates and Pollinators Tlou Masehela

17:00 - 17:30 Honey, How the Environment Impacts on the Sensory Properties of Honey Natasha Lyon

17:30 - 18:30 ICPPR Meeting

18:30 Free Evening

DAY 3: WEDNESDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2023

08:30 - 17:00 Registration

Plenary Session Chairperson: Patrícia Nunes-Silva

09:00 - 10:30 A Walk of 20 Years for Bumble Bee Health: From Risk Assessment of Pesticides Towards Entomovectoring for Enhanced Pollination and Biocontrol Guy Smagghe

10:30 - 11:00 Tea / Coffee Break Foyer

11:00 - 12:30 Poster Session

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break Foyer / Gardens

Crop Pollination Organiser: Patrícia Nunes-Silva Chairperson: Katja Hogendoorn

14:00 - 14:20 Enhancing Apple Pollination Under Net Katja Hogendoorn

14:20 - 14:40 Development of Pollinator-Friendly Flower Mixes to Support Conservation in West African Urban Gardens Lauren Lynch

14:40 - 15:00 Morphological Variation of Blueberry Flowers and Pollination Patrícia Nunes-Silva

15:00 - 15:20 Understanding Insect Pollinator Dynamics in The Agricultural Highlands of Guatemala Natalia Escobedo-Kenefic

15:20 - 16:00 Tea / Coffee Break Foyer

Crop Pollination Organiser: Patrícia Nunes-Silva Chairperson: Katja Hogendoorn

16:00 - 16:20 Influence Of the Behavior of Wild Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) And the Presence of Viruses in Coffee Production Patricia Landaverde

16:20 - 16:40 Future Trajectory of Crop Pollination Service Demand in South Africa Necessitates Monitoring of Apis mellifera And Native Pollinator Habitat Ruan Veldtman

16:40 - 17:00 Increasing Yield of Hass Avocado by Adding Bumble Bee (Bombus terrestris) To the Orchards Raphael A. Stern

17:00 Free Evening

DAY 4: THURSDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2023

08:30 - 17:30 Registration

Plenary Session Chairperson: Connal Eardley

09:00 - 10:30 Oligolecty in Bees: Predictable Plethora or Poisonous Pollen Katja Hogendoorn

10:30 - 11:00 Tea / Coffee Break Foyer

Non-Apis Pollinators of Crops Organiser: Mohamed Shebl Chairperson: Massimo Nepi

11:00 - 11:20 Trap Nesting: An Easy Way to Conserve Leafcutter Bees for Enhanced Pollination in Pigeon Pea Amala Udayakumar

11:20 - 11:40 Evolutionarily Inspired Solutions to The Crop Pollination Crisis Timotheüs van der Niet

11:40 - 12:00 Non-Protein Amino Acids of Floral Nectar Affects Survival and Locomotion of Pollinators Massimo Nepi

12:00 - 12:20 Native bee communities in agroecosystems of the lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley, United States Katherine A. Parys

12:20 - 14:00 Lunch Break Foyer / Gardens

Plant-Pollinator Interactions & Pollination Organiser and Chairperson: Patrícia Nunes-Silva

14:00 - 14:20 The Economy of Pollen Dispersal in Flowering Plants Lawrence D. Harder

14:20 - 14:40 An Improved Interpretation of Holocene Fossil Pollen Archives Based on The Understanding of The Pollen Vegetation Relationship and Pollination Pathways in The Savanna Biome of The Greater Kruger National Park, South Africa Nikiwe Ndlovu

14:40 - 15:00 Who Is the Best Pollinator? Tracking The Pollen Fate of a Buzz Pollinated Plant Amanda Vieira da Silva

15:00 - 15:20 Southern Afrotemperate Forest Trees Are Pollinated by A Diverse Array of Diurnal and Nocturnal Insects Rudi Crispin Swart

15:20 - 15:50 Tea / Coffee Break Foyer

Plant-Pollinator Interactions & Pollination Organiser and Chairperson: Patrícia Nunes-Silva

15:50 - 16:10 The Influence of Nectar Robbers in Shaping Flower Colour Anina Coetzee

16:10 - 16:30 Towards A Causal Understanding of Pollination Success: Introducing A Path Analysis Approach to Complement the Pollen Limitation Index, Index of Self-Incompatibility, And Other Ratio Variables in Pollination Ecology James G. Rodger

16:30 - 16:50 Generalist pollinators underlie the function and evolution of heterostyly: studies across all angiosperm genera and in Linum species Violeta I. Simón-Porcar

16:50 - 17:10 Evaluation Of Plant-Pollinator Interactions in The Brazilian Cerrado Kayna Agostini

17:10 - 17:20 Pollination Biology of Enantiostylous Cyanella Alba: Where Are the Buzz-Pollinating Bees? Alice Fairnie

17:20 Free Evening

DAY 5: FRIDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2023

08:30 - 15:30 Registration

Plenary Session Chairperson: Patrícia Nunes Silva

09:00 - 10:30 Bee Protection- Who, Why, When, How? Bee Health, Pesticides, Testing and Risk Assessment- Hazard and Risk to Bees, International Developments and The Role, Achievements and Challenges of The ICPPR Bee Protection Group Jens Pistorius

10:30 - 11:00 Tea / Coffee Break Foyer

Traditional Knowledge and Pollination Organiser and Chairperson: Patricia Landaverde

11:00 - 11:20 Perception Of Farmers on The Relationship Between Wild Vegetation and Insect Pollinators on A Highly Heterogenous Agricultural Highlands Landscape of Guatemala Natalia Escobedo-Kenefic

11:20 - 11:40 Traditional Slash and Burn Milpa Agriculture in Mesoamerica and its Effect on Pollinators and Their Pollination Services Patricia Landaverde

11:40 - 12:00 Seams in the Forest Fabric: The Role of Pollinators in Supporting Forest-Dependent Livelihoods Christine Rose Coppinger

12:00 - 12:20 Insects, Gm Maize and Changing Agricultural Knowledge Landscapes in South Africa Maya Marshak

12:20 - 13:50 Lunch Break Foyer / Gardens

Tools for Studying Pollination and Pollinators Organiser and Chairperson: Connal Eardley

13:50 - 14:10 Citizen Science as A "Hands-On" Tool to Link Science Learning to Conservation on Pollinators and Pollination Service Fabiana Oliveira da Silva

14:10 - 14:30 Close-Focusing Camera Traps: A Valuable New Tool for Pollination Studies Steven Johnson

14:30 - 14:50 Using Nectar Landscapes to Assess Competition Between Domesticated Honeybees and Wild Insects in South Africa and Scotland Maisie Brett

14:50 - 15:10 Standardizing Bee Sampling: A Systematic Review of Pan Trapping and Associated Floral Surveys André Krahner

15:10 - 15:30 Tea / Coffee Break Foyer

15:30 - 16:00 Symposium Closing & Awards Ceremony

DAY 1: MONDAY, 16 OCTOBER 2023

08:30 - 10:00 Set up of exhibition tables

08:30 - 17:30 Registration

10:00 - 10:30 Symposium Opening Session

10:30 - 11:00 Tea / Coffee Break Foyer

Plenary Session Chairperson: Connal Eardley

11:00 - 12:30 Evolution of Flowers Under Pollinator Change Maria Clara Castellanos

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break Foyer / Gardens

Floral Advertisements Organiser and Chairperson: Elza Guimarăes & Priscila Tunes

14:00 - 14:20 Temporal and Spatial Variations in Floral Advertisements Elza Maria Guimarăes Santos

14:20 - 14:40 Landscape-Scale Structuring of Flower Colour Across Pollinator Mosaics in Cape Daisies Allan G. Ellis

14:40 - 15:00 Does Florivory Affect Floral Scent Emission Along Flower Lifetime? Priscila Teixeira Tunes

15:00 - 15:20 Pollination Ecotypes: The Key Roles of Flower Color, Morphology and Scent Chemistry in Pollinator Shifts Within Three South African Plant Species Ruth Cozien

15:20 - 15:50 Tea / Coffee Break Foyer

Floral Advertisements Organiser and Chairperson: Elza Guimarăes & Priscila Tunes

15:50 - 16:10 The Role of Short-Tongued Flies as Pollinators in Southern African High Elevation Systems: A Case Study of Crassula Peploides Crassulaceae Nkitseng Oageng Modise

16:10 - 16:30 Pollinator-Mediated Adaptive Wandering in a Florally Diverse Annual Daisy: Dimorphotheca pluvialis-sinuata (Asteraceae) Arjan Engelen

16:30 - 16:50 When Flowers Bleed to Cheat - Deceptive Pollination Strategies in South African Ceropegia (Apocynaceae) Annemarie Heiduk

16:50 - 17:10 Floral Diversification Driven by A Pollinator Shift in The Duvernoia Clade of Justicia Arjun Adit

17:10 - 17:30 Can Drought Affect Floral Colour to Bees in An Agricultural Pollination System? Priscila Teixeira Tunes

17:30 Free Evening

DAY 2: TUESDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2023

08:00 - 18:00 Registration

Plenary Session Chairperson: Patricia Nunes Silva

09:00 - 10:30 So, You Want to Study Orchid Pollination: Maximizing Observations and Data Sets Peter Bernhardt

10:30 - 11:00 Tea / Coffee Break Foyer

Climate Change & Land Use Effects on Pollinators Organiser: Patricia Nunes Silva Chairperson: Sjirk Geerts

11:00 - 11:30 Moving With Your Mutualist: Predicted Climate-Induced Mismatch Between Proteaceae Species and Their Avian Pollinators Sjirk Geerts

11:30 - 11:50 Soil And Atmospheric Nutrient Enrichment Alter How Larger Plant-Pollinator Networks Organized Across the Globe Adrian David Gonzalez Chaves

11:50 - 12:10 The Buzz About Town: The Effects of Urbanisation on Bee and Wasp Communities in Cape Town, South Africa Gemma Walker

12:10 - 12:30 Drivers Of Diversity and Community Structure of Bees in an Agroecological Region of Zimbabwe Gugulethu Tarakini

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break Foyer / Gardens

Climate Change & Land Use Effects on Pollinators Organiser: Patricia Nunes Silva Chairperson: Sjirk Geerts

14:00 - 14:20 Relationship Between Temporal Dynamics of Flowers and Climate Change Amanda Eburneo Martins

14:20 - 14:40 Bee Functional Traits and Climate Variability Drive Bee Phenological Patterns in Tropical and Subtropical Regions Paula María Montoya Pfeiffer

14:40 - 15:00 Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change on Lepidopteran Pollinator Communities: Insights from a 30-Year Dataset in Finland Emilie E. Ellis

15:00 - 15:20 Fire Maintains Coexistence of Divergent Flower Forms Sam Zamosa McCarren

15:20 - 16:00 Tea / Coffee Break Foyer

Pollinator Taxonomy Organiser and Chairperson: Connal Eardley

16:00 - 16:20 A Growing Need for Taxonomy Connal Eardley

16:20 - 16:40 Characterization Of the Diversity of Pollinating Insects and Their Interactions with The Flora of the "Agro Foręts Pour Le Développement De Kipushi" (Afodek) Perimeter. Pierre Makolo Kasongo

16:40 - 17:00 A Knowledge Collation Process Towards SANParks's First State of The Knowledge Report on Invertebrates and Pollinators Tlou Masehela

17:00 - 17:30 Honey, How the Environment Impacts on the Sensory Properties of Honey Natasha Lyon

17:30 - 18:30 ICPPR Meeting

18:30 Free Evening