About the Authors

Andrew Core

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Charles Runckel

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Jonathan Ivers

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Christopher Quock

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Travis Siapno

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Seraphina DeNault

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Brian Brown

Affiliation Entomology Section, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Joseph DeRisi

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Christopher D. Smith

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

John Hafernik

acore13@yahoo.com

Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JH AC JI CQ SD CR JD CS. Performed the experiments: JH AC JI CQ SD CR TS. Analyzed the data: JH AC CS CR JD TS BB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JD CR. Wrote the paper: JH AC CS CR BB. Discovered phorid/bee phenomenon: JH. Photographed phorids and bees: CQ JH.