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SUMMARY:In the Life of Bees: Nesting in Darkness
DESCRIPTION:This event will be recorded and posted to: The Xerces Youtube Channel\n\n\n\n\nWhen you think of bees\, you probably imagine the things they do on sunny days\, like flying around and pollinating flowers. But this is only half of the story\, as most of the 20\,000 species of bees found around the world nest belowground\, and spend the majority of their lives in darkness. What are they doing underground? How do they navigate their burrows and communicate with other bees? What happens when it rains? There are many interesting questions surrounding this lifestyle\, and also plenty of uncertainties remaining to be resolved about subterranean living. In this webinar\, we will learn about the diversity of ways that bees live and reproduce belowground\, and we’ll ponder some of those unsolved mysteries. We’ll also talk about how the belowground lifestyle affects threats to bees\, such as exposure to pesticides and pathogens. This webinar will cover some bees you may be familiar with\, such as bumble bees\, but we’ll be focusing our time on soil-nesters who we generally know less about\, including the many solitary bees that do not live in colonies. \nThis webinar will be recorded and available on our YouTube channel. Closed Captioning will be available during this webinar. \n\nLeif Richardson – Conservation Biologist & California Bumble Bee Atlas – Xerces Society\nLeif is a conservation biologist who coordinates the California Bumble Bee Atlas project. His research focuses on the ecology\, distribution\, and declines of North American bumble bees. Leif previously worked as an environmental consultant\, studying pesticide risk to bee pollinators\, and as an ecologist for Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department. He is co-author of a range of scientific publications on bees\, including Bumble Bees of North America: An Identification Guide (2014\, Princeton University Press)\, the standard reference manual on this group of insects. He is an expert in the inventory and identification of bumble bees\, and has extensive experience training others to collect bumble bee distribution data in the field. Leif holds a Master’s degree from the University of Arizona and a PhD from Dartmouth College.
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