Sheila R Colla
1982–2025 (age 43)
Biography
Sheila Rafaella Colla (4 May 1982 – 6 July 2025) was a Canadian conservation biologist specialising in wild bumblebees, and an advocate for increasing diversity in entomology. Her work with the rusty patched bumblebee led to the first listing of a bumblebee as endangered in both Canada and the United States.