We are a comparative physiology and behavioral ecology lab using social insects as model systems to study social adaptations to environmental stressors. We are interested in how individual behavioral and physiological phenotypes scale to group strategies, and the adaptiveness of these strategies in different complex environments. Our lab has particular interest in ​macrophysiological patterns in the form and function of highly social species, particularly as related to the social dynamics of climate adaptation and competition. 

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Recent Lab News

• 21 January 2026 - Welcome to new MS student Ashley Pell !!!
  
• 10 December 2025 - Check out a new pre-print of our collaborative project on how to minimize inferential bias in the theory and design of nutritional experiments through the application of the equilateral mixture triangle 
• 10 November 2025 - Congratulations to PhD Candidate Karen Robles Lopez, whose talk at Entomology 2025 won 2nd place in the category of "Evolution".
• 10 November 2025 - Congratulations to Stan Lab / Baudier Lab Honors Scholar Noah Williamson whose poster at Entomology 2025 won 1st place in the "Conservation" category.
• 27 October 2025 - Congratulations to GCPE REU Alumnus and Honors Scholar Vinny Halsey for winning 1st place in the Masters Student Poster Competition (despite being an undergraduate). 
• 29 August 2025 - Check out PhD Candidate Kristin Robinson's newly published note on stingless bee mobbing defenses against bullet ant predation in the Journal of Insect Behavior. 
• ​24 April 2025 - Congratulations to Stan Lab / Baudier Lab Honors Scholar Noah Williamson for being named a 2025 Beckman Scholar!
• 28 March 2025 - Congratulations to Flint Lab / Baudier Lab Honors Scholar Joseph Serio, USM's newest Goldwater Scholar!
• 28 February 2025 - The Journal Insectes Sociaux just published an Animal Behavior (BSC 455L/555L) course-based project conceived and led by PhD Candidate Kristin Robinson! Check out their work on alarm stridulation in a sub-social beetle here.