One Week (Virtual) Insect University 2020

This year’s One Day Insect University morphed to a virtual, five-day event!

InsectU was co-sponsored by the OSU Department of Entomology and Chadwick Arboretum and Learning Gardens with support from NIFA’s IPM Pollinator Health grant and the Manitou Fund. Many thanks to our presenters for a fantastic webinar series!

Webinar Presenter	Presenter Website	Recording Link	Resources
Jamie Strange	OSU Department of Entomology	Conserving Bumble Bees Across North America	Forgotten But Not Gone: The Rusty Patched Bumble Bee documentary featuring Jamie Strange and other bumble experts Patterns of Widespread Decline in North American Bumble Bees (2011) Community Science links: Bumble Bee Watch, iNaturalist.org Queen Quest Bumble Bees of the Eastern United States Identify Ohio Bumble Bees with Dr. Jessie Novotny, Webinar 1 and Webinar 2 Strange lab website https://u.osu.edu/strange.54/ USFWS rusty patched bumble bee web site https://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/insects/rpbb/ Xerces Society bumble bee conservation https://www.xerces.org/bumblebees Bumble bees damage plant leaves and accelerate flower production when pollen is scarce
Heather Holm	Books by Heather Holm	Creating and Enhancing Native Bee Habitat in Your Garden	EcoBeneficial Interview: Bees and Native Forage with Heather Holm Specialist Bees with Heather Holm, ELA webinar 2020 Solitary Bees with Heather Holm, OSU webinar 2020 Heather’s stem-nesting graphic Plants for specialist bees, Specialist Bees: Fowler and Droege Heather on iNaturalist Chicago’s Lurie Garden To learn more about native plants: Xerces.org plant lists Audubon native plant database Pollinator Partnership ecoregional plant guides
Olivia Carril	The Bees in Your Backyard	Dreaming of World Bees: Steps We Can All Take to Ensure A Bee-utiful Future	The Bees of Grand Staircase documentary featuring Olivia Carril and Joe Wilson Wild bees of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, paper by Olivia Carril et al Common Bees of Eastern North America by Olivia Carril and Joe Wilson….coming in 2021 The Bees in Your Backyard poster The Bees in Your Backyard laminated field guide Papers referenced: Patterns of Widespread Decline in North American Bumble Bees (2011) Decline of bumble bees in northeastern North America, with special focus on Bombus terricola Plant-Pollinator Interactions over 120 Years: Loss of Species, Co-Occurrence, and Function Documenting Persistence of Most Eastern North American Bee Species (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Anthophila) to 1990–2009 Climate and land-cover change alter bumblebee species richness and community composition in subalpine areas Effects of climate change on phenologies and distributions of bumble bees and the plants they visit Response diversity of wild bees to overwintering temperatures Predicted fates of ground-nesting bees in soil heated by wildfire: Thermal tolerances of life stages and a survey of nesting depths Impacts of climate change on the world’s most exceptional ecoregions Multiple stressors on biotic interactions: how climate change and alien species interact to affect pollination Mortality and Flowering of Great Basin Perennial Forbs after Experimental Burning: Implications for Wild Bees Reduced species richness of native bees in field margins associated with neonicotinoid concentrations in non-target soils Negative effects of pesticides on wild bee communities can be buffered by landscape context COMPLEX RESPONSES WITHIN A DESERT BEE GUILD (HYMENOPTERA: APIFORMES) TO URBAN HABITAT FRAGMENTATION Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on the Nesting Dynamics of Desert Bees Alien plants have greater impact than habitat fragmentation on native insect flower visitation networks Country-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on honey bees and wild bees
Jennifer Thieme	Monarch Joint Venture	Monarch Biology and Conservation: The 10,000 Foot Overview	Monarch Biology Monarch Joint Venture publications Pollinator Plants of the Great Lake Region from The Xerces Society Nectar Plants of the Great Lakes Region from The Xerces Society ODNR (Ohio) Milkweeds and Monarchs Mixed-Species Gardens Increase Monarch Oviposition without Increasing Top-Down Predation Q & A responses from Jennifer’s webinar
Doug Tallamy	Doug Tallamy’s Hub	Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard	Gardening for Life: Why We Need Biodiversity Tallamy’s Best Bets: plants for moths and butterflies Doug’s book titles The Nature of Oaks (new title out in March 2021 Doug Tallamy’s research publications Do Cultivars of Native Plants Support Insect Herbivores? Comparing native plants: straight species vs. cultivars, Dr. Annie White WWF: Two-thirds of wildlife have vanished since 1970 Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv Finding plants: NWF plant finder Audubon native plant database Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Evaluate each webinar after-the-fact here.