Bees in Your Backyard Workshop Locations: All sessions are 9AM to 4PM.
Sponsored by: The Dawes Arboretum, Franklin Park Conservatory, Mill Creek MetroParks, The Ohio State University Bee Lab, Stratford Ecological Center, and University of Mount Union.
Questions? e-mail Denise: ellsworth.2@osu.edu
Workshop Materials and Resources
Evaluate the Bees in Your Backyard workshop here
Thanks for asking….links from workshop participants’ questions
Studies and resources mentioned:
- The Bees in Your Backyard — Olivia Carril and Joe Wilson on Facebook
- Historical changes in northeastern US bee pollinators related to shared ecological traits
- PLOS ONE: Life-Long Radar Tracking of Bumblebees
- Introduced Nonnative Bees, also here non-native bees
- USBombus, a database of contemporary survey data for North American Bumble Bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus) distributed in the United States
- Specialist Bees of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States
- Giant resin bees for this workshop were collected from pagoda tree, Styphnolobium japonicum – Plant Finder – Missouri Botanical Garden
- MidAtlantic Native Bee Phenology – SlideShare
- USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab | Flickr
- Mosquito sprays and bee kills
Workshop handouts, Powerpoints and links:
Common Ohio Bees, OSU Bee Lab check list
Ohio Introductory small handout
Olivia’s ppt programs, Part 1 and Part 2. To download or print, click on settings wheel at the bottom of each frame:
Keys
Bee Genera of Eastern Canada, key
Bee Biology and ID
Apoidea of Maryland, images and descriptions from Sam Droege
Bee Basics: an Introduction to Our Native Bees, Pollinator Partnership and USDA Forest Service
Bee Genera Cards, The Great Sunflower Project
Bees of Maryland: A Field Guide, North American Native Bee Collaborative
Bumble Bee ID Manual, MN Bee Lab
Conserving Wild Bees in Pennsylvania: Penn State University
Native Bee Benefits: Bryn Mawr College and Rutgers University:
Native Bees, Wild Bees and Solitary Bees: University of Minnesota
Pictoral Guide to Common NYC Bees, Kevin Matteson
Supporting Native Bees: Our Essential Pollinators, University of Wisconsin-Extension
Specialist bees of the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States (including host plants), Droege and Fowler
Understanding Native Bees: University of Maine
The Very Handy Bee Manual, Sam Droege et. al.
Wild Bees of New York, Sharp-Eatman Nature Photography
Wild Pollinators of Eastern Apple Orchards and How to Conserve Them: Cornell University