Pollinator Pathway Zoom Presentation: Heather Holm "Specialist Bees"
Tue, Apr 09
|https://cheshirelibrary.libcal.com/event/11
Cheshire Pollinator Pathway and the Hamden Land Conservation Trust's Pollinator Pathway presents a Zoom talk on specialist bees with Heather Holm, pollinator conservationist and award-winning author via the Cheshire Public Library. Register beginning March 12 online at Cheshire Public Library
Time & Location
Apr 09, 2024, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
https://cheshirelibrary.libcal.com/event/11
About the event
Specialist Bees  with Heather Holm The monarch butterfly is probably the most famous insect specialist (the caterpillars feed only on milkweed), but did you know that many native bees are also specialists? Female native bee specialists or oligoleges, collect pollen from a narrow range of native plants; this could mean just one plant genus or species, or many genera that belong to one plant family. Heather will highlight many of these native plant-bee specializations as well as the overlapping habitat requirements of the bees and plants. The presentation will also include the threats to specialists such as habitat loss and climate change.