How to Help Wild Solitary Bees and Bumblebees in Cities and Improve Biodiversity by Rewilding Rooftops and Winning Hearts and Minds

Community & Culture

January 22, 2022, 11am MT

Alison Benjamin is co-founder of Urban Bees in London, which helps bees in towns and cities by working with communities, charities, and corporates to educate people about the importance of bees and improving forage and habitat in urban areas for wild bees. Alison is also a journalist and author of a number of books about bees including the bestselling A World Without Bees. Her latest book is The Good Bee; a celebration of Bees and How to Help Them. She has a monthly newsletter, The Buzz, to ID and help wild bees.

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The Behavioural Wonders of Worker Bees

Musings & Observations

May 14, 2022, 11am MT

Dr. Tom Seeley, biologist and writer, is the Horace White Professor in Biology Emeritus at Cornell University, where he is a member of the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior. He taught courses on animal behavior and still does research on the behavior, social life, and ecology of honey bees. Tom is also an avid beekeeper; he began keeping bees when he was a high school student, in Ithaca, New York, in the late 1960s. His scientific work is summarized in five books: Honeybee Ecology (1985), The Wisdom of the Hive (1995), Honeybee Democracy (2010), Following the Wild Bees (2016), and The Lives of Bees (2019). In recognition of his scientific contributions, he has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the German National Academy of Sciences. He writes: “These honors are gratifying, but for me the most important “prizes” by far are the discoveries that I have made about the natural lives and inner workings of honey bee colonies.”

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Conservation of Apis dorsata with support from the Korku Tribe in India

Protecting Wild Honey Bees

August 13, 2022, 11am MT

Dr. Nitin Labhane is the Professor and Dean for Research and Development in the Department of Botany at Bhavans College. He has done extensive research in plant developmental biology, ecology, and biodiversity. In 2021, Dr. Labhane was appointed by the Government of India as an expert member of the State Environmental Appraisal Committee for the State of Maharashtra. Dr. Labhane believes that to be a good teacher means that you must be a lifelong learner.

Beekeeping in a Northern Remote Community

Community & Culture

Sept 10, 2022, 11am MT

Morgan Voyageur is a member of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, Canada. Morgan is located in the northeastern part of Alberta, on Lake Athabasca. Morgan has lived in Fort Chipewyan all his life surrounded by the Canadian shield and the Peace-Athabasca Delta. He works in the environmental field as the Community Base Monitoring Coordinator for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation.

Morgan has been a beekeeper for five seasons and finds that each year is a new learning curve. Some years are very hot and some years are very wet. Some years you get honey and some years you don’t, but every year you’re learning and adapting.

Flower Power: Establishing Pollinator Habitat

Musings & Observations

November 12, 2022, 11am MT

Tammy Horn Potter’s entry to apiculture started with helping her grandfather in 1997. From there, her life followed a dog-legged path of a hobby becoming a career. Interested in cultural history, she wrote Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation, in 2005. That effort led to writing Beeconomy: What Women and Bees teach us about Local Trade and Global Markets (2012), and involved travel to five continents and working for a queen bee company in Hawai’i. With the benefit of a private grant as start-up, she developed Coal Country Beeworks in 2008, working with surface mine companies in Eastern Kentucky to establish pollinator habitat as a reclamation management practice. She published Flower Power: Establishing Pollinator Habitat about that experience in 2019. In 2014, Tammy became the KY State Apiarist. In this role, she samples for USDA-APHIS Honey Bee Health Survey grants, has helped start the KY Queen Bee Breeders Association, and helped the Kentucky State Beekeepers Association launch the Certified Kentucky Honey Program. She manages a small apiary (200 hives) with her husband Douglass Potter in Lexington, KY.

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