Yellow-faced miner bee (Andrena aliciae), by Nick Spigler, CC-BY-NC-4.0
Maryland has about 450 species of bees. Like birds, some are common and some are rare and may need help from people to flourish. It turns out that many of the rare bees are highly specialized, meaning they gather pollen from only one genus of plant, or sometimes from just one species of plant. If those plants are absent, then the bees are absent too. In this webinar, wildlife biologist Sam Droege of the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center will highlight some of the successes of bringing those bees back via plantings in yards and properties—including things local residents can do in their own backyards.
This event is part of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)’s free evening science talks, and it will be recorded! Closed captions will be available during the live stream and on the recording. By signing up on Zoom, you’ll be able to watch live and receive a link to the recording a few days after the live stream. SERC seeks to showcase a wide variety of topics and perspectives for its evening science talks. Views expressed during these talks belong to the individual speakers and not the Smithsonian.
