Pollinator habitat and Bumble Bee Presentations (Links to recordings)

 

Ohio State Univ Pollinator Habitat 101 Recordings (60 minutes each)

Topics:

1. Pollinators’ Best Hope: A New Approach to Pollinator Habitat That Starts in Your Yard
2. Creating Pollinator Gardens: The Role of Plant Choice and Design
3. Creating and Managing Habitat for Native Bees
4. Deciding To Create a Pollinator Garden Is the Easy Step — What To Do Next?
5. Getting Started with Wildflower Patches, Flower Strips, and Meadows

Ohio State Univ Bumble Bee Short Course Recordings (60 minutes each)

Topics:

1. Bumble Bee Biology, Part 1
2. Bumble Bee  Biology, Part 2
3. Identification of Bumble Bees from Eastern North America
4. Bumble Bee Botany
5. Threats and Opportunities for Conservation
6. You Can Make a Difference for Bumble Bees: Programs to Document Bumble Bees in Yards, Parks, Gardens, and Natural Areas AND What Plants They Use

Ohio State Univ Tending Nature speaker series (recordings 60 minutes each). Native Plants and Every Gardener’s Role in Fostering Biodiversity

Topics:

1. Beneficial Insect Biodiversity: What It Is and Why It Matters, Mary Gardiner
2. Bringing Nature Home: The Importance of Native Plants, Doug Tallamy:
3. Cultivating a Community of Support for Native Plants, Lisa Olsen: 
4. Host-plant Specialist Bees – Biology, Biodiversity, and Conserving Them in Your Backyard, Bryan Danforth:
5. Bumble Bee Banquet: Selecting Native Plants for Bumble Bees, Heather Holm 
6. Native Plants in My Garden? Absolutely! Debra Knapke:   

Ohio State Univ Welcome Spring Course! Authors Speaker Series (2021), (recordings 60 minutes each).

Topics:

1. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees.
2. Wasps: Their biology, Diversity, and Role as Beneficial Insects and Pollinators of Native Plants.
3. The Solitary Bees: Biology, Evolution, Conservation.
4. Common Bees of Eastern North America.
5. Good Garden Bugs: Everything You Need to Know About Beneficial Predatory Insects. 

Ohio State Univ One Week (Virtual) Insect University 2020 (recordings 60 minutes each)

Topics:

1. Conserving Bumble Bees Across North America, Jamie Strange
1. Forgotten But Not Gone: The Rusty Patched Bumble Bee
2. Dreaming of World Bees: Steps We Can All Take to Ensure A Bee-utiful Future
3. Monarch Biology and Conservation: The 10,000 Foot Overview, Jennifer Thieme

• My Garden of a Thousand Bees, PBS Nature, wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn

• Fall Gardening for Pollinators, (or Putting our Gardens to Bed) Emily May, Pollinator Conservation Specialist, Xerces Society (starts at 5:32 into the recording)

• Wild Ones Presents "WASPS" by Wild Ones Honorary Director Heather Holm. (Starts at 3:31 into the recording)

• Wile Ones Presents The Bombus Among Us - Bumble Bee Basics by Heather Holm. (Starts at 3:35 into the recording)

• Bumble Bee Natural History and Conservation in Vermont, Kent McFarland, Vt Center for Ecostudies. (Starts at 1:45 into the recording)

• Pollinators in the Woods, Dr. Kass Urban-Mead, Xerces Society. (Starts at 3:15 into the recording)

• Beyond the Honeybee: Wild Bees on the Vermont Landscape, Spencer Hardy, Vt Center for Eco Studies. (Starts at 7:58 into the recording)

• The Ontogeny of Sociality in Bumble Bee Queens - Hollis Woodard (Starts at 2:50 into the recording)

• Vermont's bee populations are failing. Here's what you can do to help. Vermont Public (Podcast), Spencer Hardy, Charles "Chas" Mraz, Becca Worple. (Starts at 1:30 into the recording)

• Xerces Featured Videos

• Life in Vernal Pools, Alicia Daniel as she explored life in vernal pools with naturalists Sean Beckett, Monica Przyperhart, and Kerry Brosnan.

• Solitary Bees, Bryan Danforth (2019)

• Insects for Birders, Bryan Pfeiffer (Starts at 17:29 into the recording)

• Big-Bee: Promoting the understanding of bees through image, trait digitization - Madeleine Ostwald. (Bee library site)