A Closer Look at Selected Relationships Between Bees, Flowers, and People

August 15, 2024
7:00 – 8:00 PM (Via Zoom)

Gordon Frankie
Professor Emeritus and Research Entomologist
Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management—University of California, Berkeley

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Dr. Frankie will touch on a variety of topics that illustrate his concern for pollinator conservation: The use of bee hotels (pros and cons), collecting pollinators, data basing of collections and value of museums, bee conservation and the need for citizen action. He will also discuss developing pollinator habitat gardens and native versus non-native plants in these gardens.

Gordon Frankie is professor emeritus from the University of California, Berkeley. His specialty is pollinator/pollination ecology of native bees in California and Costa Rica. He is particularly involved with questions of how people relate to bees and their plants in urban, agricultural, and wildland environments, and how to raise human awareness and calls for actions in these areas.  Frankie runs the Urban Bee Lab at UC Berkeley, and still teaches undergraduate students about several aspects of bee ecology.