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Buzzing Canopies: Forests' Vital Role in Supporting Pollinator Diversity
Buzzing Canopies: Forests' Vital Role in Supporting Pollinator Diversity
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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Mar 26, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
For many of us, if we were asked to describe a place that is good for bees, I suspect that we’d talk about somewhere that is open, sunny, and full of flowers — a garden, meadow, prairie, or hedgerow, maybe. The chances are that forests wouldn’t be high on that list. However, forests provide important resources for bees.In this episode, we are joined by Kass Urban-Mead to talk about forests and bees. Kass works for the Xerces Society as a pollinator conservation specialist and NRCS Partner Biologist based in Philadelphia. From there, she collaborates with communities in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions to plan, design, install, and manage habitat for pollinators and other beneficial insects. She also climbed a lot of trees to study bees while completing her PhD at Cornell.Thank you for listening! For more information go to xerces.org/bugbanter.
Released:
Mar 26, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (16)
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