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Brooklyn Botanic Garden Trouble in Paradise: Are we losing our native bees?

Wednesday, May 4, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (ET)

Brooklyn, NY

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BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN

TROUBLE IN PARADISE: ARE WE LOSING OUR NATIVE BEES?

 

Date & Time: Wednesday, May 4, 6:30-8:00PM

Location: Auditorium at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington Avenue

Speaker: Stephen Buchmann, entomologist, International Coordinator of The Pollinator Partnership

http://www.pollinator.org/

Event Description: This fascinating talk showcases North American native bee diversity, along with threats to bees and other pollinators.  The amazing ways bees make a living, from carpenters to masons to social parasite free-loaders will be examined along with their fantastic mutualistic dances with flowering plants. Learn about flowers that produce resins, oils, and perfumes besides ordinary pollen and nectar floral rewards.  See the world's smallest bee (under 2mm) from the Sonoran Desert.  Stephen will also update us declines in bumble bee species and the latest on Colony Collapse Disorder of honey bees.  It is not all doom and gloom, as he suggests simple steps we can all take in our backyards, gardens and schools to help native bees and other pollinating animals.  You can become a bee rancher, a pollinator landlord!  Several of Dr. Buchmann's books may be available for purchase and signing after his talk.

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Brooklyn Botanic Garden
1000 Washington Ave
Brooklyn, NY

Wednesday, May 4, 2011 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (ET)


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