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Speaker Series, “Native Bees of the Sonoran Desert”
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The Sonoran Desert is home to over a thousand species of native bees, making it perhaps the most bee-diverse region in the world. However, many of these bees are critically threatened by habitat loss and other environmental concerns. Learn about the basic biology and identification of these important pollinators, as well as how to protect native bees in your yard and even participate in citizen science projects.
Madeleine Ostwald is a doctoral student in Animal Behavior at Arizona State University. She has previously studied the biology of bees and the history of biology at Cornell University, the University of Edinburgh, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Her current research focuses on the evolution of social behavior in native carpenter bees.