Rachel fahey
Rachel Fahey works for the University of Maryland Honeybee Lab as a faculty research assistant analyzing honey bee samples from the Bee Informed Partnership and the APHIS National Honey Bee Survey. She specializes in Nosema spore counts, but also enjoys field work in the bee yards. She received her bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science from Wesley College and wants to continue her education in Entomology and beekeeping. Before coming to BIP, she worked on a variety of projects at UMD including scouting corn fields for brown marmorated stink bug, testing the effectiveness of small hive beetle traps and assisting with horticulture research at the UMD Wye Research Center.
Rachel joined in 2012 because “I want to help make the world a better place, and the Bee Lab is doing just that, one bee at a time!”.
Rachel joined in 2012 because “I want to help make the world a better place, and the Bee Lab is doing just that, one bee at a time!”.
