CFAES’ Denise Ellsworth presents “Becoming a Community Scientist (and a Better Naturalist): How You Can Help Bees and Other Pollinators” as part of the Wooster Science Café series, Wednesday, Oct. 14, 7–8 p.m.
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Reasons to protect pollinators
Learn about the importance of pollinators and about threats to them in a workshop at the Mahoning County office of OSU Extension, CFAES’s outreach arm. It’s tomorrow, Tuesday, Oct. 23, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Registration is $10. Find out more. (Photo: Getty Images.)
Home improvement for pollinators
The next Pollinator School workshop, presented by the Mahoning County office of CFAES’s outreach arm, OSU Extension, runs from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 16, in Canfield in northeast Ohio. The program’s title is “Habitats.” It’s about seeing, understanding and improving where pollinators live and feed. Registration is $10. Learn more. (Photo: Getty Images.)
Enjoy fall, see pollinators today at 2 pm
CFAES’s Secrest Arboretum hosts a Guided Autumn and Pollinator Walk from 2-3:30 p.m. today, Tuesday, Sept. 25, starting at its Seaman Orientation Plaza.
The arboretum is at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, 1680 Madison Ave., part of CFAES’s Wooster campus. Free admission; dress for the weather (a chance of showers).
Find out more. (Photo: Common buckeye butterfly on goldenrod, Getty Images.)
Webinar on bees ’n’ beans
Kelly Tilmon, associate professor in CFAES’s Department of Entomology, presents “Pollinator Diversity in Ohio Soybeans” at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19, in a webinar series hosted by CFAES’s Bee Lab.
Gather further details. It’s free to watch; use the “Guest Login” at 8:55 a.m. (Photo: Getty Images.)
Seeing what needs to be done
Pumpkin and squash pollination has officially begun w/ the arrival of the Squash bees. 7 in this blossom alone! #glveg #cfaes pic.twitter.com/bmJJ91ZEvt
— JJski (@OSU_IPM) July 3, 2018
Bee Culture editor to speak Wednesday
The 2018 webinar series by CFAES’s Bee Lab continues at 9 a.m. Wednesday, June 20, with a talk called “Ethics in Beekeeping.” Speaking will be Kim Flottum, the editor of Medina-based Bee Culture magazine and the author of The Backyard Beekeeper and Better Beekeeping, among others.
It’s free to watch; use the “Guest Login” at 8:55 a.m.
Learn more. (Photo: iStock.)
Register soon for bee lecture, book signing
A reminder that bee expert Olivia Carril, co-author of The Bees in Your Backyard: A Field Guide to North America’s Bees (Princeton University Press, 2015), is giving a lecture and book signing at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 6, at the University of Mount Union’s Hoover-Price Campus Center, 420 West Simpson St., Alliance. Admission is free, but you have to register online by Monday, June 4.
Carril is giving “Bees in Your Backyard” workshops at three locations in Ohio the same week, co-hosted by CFAES’s Bee Lab. Unfortunately, registration for the workshops has ended. (Image: Princeton University Press.)
Meet the bees in your own backyard
CFAES’s Bee Lab is co-sponsoring three upcoming Bees in Your Backyard workshops by author and bee expert Olivia Carril, and a lecture and book signing, too. Nota bee-ne: The deadline to register for the workshops is May 18; for the lecture and book signing, June 4. Continue reading
Waiter, there’s a bee on my screen
CFAES’s 2018 Bee Lab Webinar Series kicks off when biologist-author Olivia Carril presents “Identifying Common Bees of the Great Lakes Region” from 9-10 a.m., April 18. Carril is the co-author of The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America’s Bees (Princeton University Press, 2015), which the Bookseller Buyer’s Guide calls “The ultimate bee book for bee enthusiasts and experts alike.”