All sessions are from 10:00 – 11:00AM Eastern on the third Friday of the month, May – November 2021
Please note: the focus of this series is wild bee conservation, not honey bee management.
All recordings can be found under the recordings tab.
Randy Mitchell, The University of Akron
Bee Botany 101 (5/21/21)
Jamie Strange, The Ohio State University
Melittology 101: An Intro to Bee Science (6/18/21)
Olivia Carril, author and biologist
The Art and Science of Studying Wild Bees (7/16/21)
Heather Holm, author and biologist
Insect Photography and Using iNaturalist to Observe and Document Wild Bees (8/20/21)
September 17: Sam Droege, USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab
Tips and Tricks to Finding Bees, Collecting Bees, and Creating a Bee Collection for Conservation and Science
Check out The Handy Bee Manual!
October 15: Mary Gardiner, The Ohio State University
Contributions of Community Science to Entomology: Benefits for People and Nature
November 19: Matthew Shepherd, The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
From Community Science to Advocacy in Action: Case Studies in Conservation