Vinina Silva Ferreira has been an entomologist and professor at UNIVASF since 2010. She has experience studying solitary bees from natural habitats and orchards (eg. inventory, pollination, nesting biology, molecular and morphometric variability). She works with partners from Embrapa on a project to increase bee populations in acerola orchards, coordinating the subproject “Evaluation of the type of trap-nest displayed to cavity-bees of the genus Centris”.
