“I started studying bees during my Ph.D. and I have not looked back ever since,” says Priyadarshini Chakrabarti Basu, Ph.D. “News about colony collapse disorder and bee declines had already reached India when I was studying in college. However, not much was really understood about bees and their troubles in the Asian subcontinent. My Ph.D. research was thus motivated by the largely overlooked question of how field-realistic pesticide exposures can affect both wild and managed honey bees.”