37 min listen
650: Jennifer Foltz-Sweat on Urban Bee Communities
650: Jennifer Foltz-Sweat on Urban Bee Communities
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Length:
37 minutes
Released:
Dec 17, 2021
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Podcast episode
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Working Toward Bee Conservation and Biodiversity in Urban Areas. In This Podcast: Jennifer Foltz-Sweat opens our eyes to the wide world of bees. By now many of us have heard that bees are a crucial element of the environment, but what should we do with that knowledge? Jennifer explains easy things we can do to attract bees to our garden and warns us what not to do. She gives uplifting examples of how important education is to conservation, tells us about the move toward citizen science, and encourages all of us to get involved. Don’t miss an episode! visit UrbanFarm.Org/blog/podcast Jennifer Foltz-Sweat began researching wild bee ecology in 2002, while a graduate student in California. Her studies focused on determining how wild bee communities differed between grassland habitats and urban areas. She moved back to Arizona, where she grew up, in 2009 and began teaching at Arizona State University West campus and the Maricopa County Community College District. Jennifer continues to conduct research on urban bee communities with her undergraduate students. She is interested in measuring native bee foraging on urban flowering plants and characterizing urban bee communities. Visit www.UrbanFarm.org/urbanbees for the show notes on this episode, and access to our full podcast library! Urban Bee Communities.
Released:
Dec 17, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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