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“Bees Beyond Honey” with #SamDroege
Posted on Feb 23rd, 2025 | Our Education
"In the February 2025 Wild Ones webinar on 'Bees Beyond Honey, Understanding Native and Managed Pollinators' hosted by Sara Ressing, Wild Ones Education and Program Coordinator, we were introduced to three pollinator experts: USGS Wildlife biologist Sam Droege, Crown Bees founder Dave Hunter, and Associate Director of the Pollinator Partnership Lora Morandin. Sam, Dave, and Lora explored the critical roles that wild native bees, solitary managed bees, and honeybees play in our ecosystem and discussed how we can support all pollinators in a balanced and evidence-based way. Each speaker provided a 10-minute educational presentation, followed by an informative panel discussion. In this multipart series, #WildOnesChesapeakeBay will take a look at each of the panelists and additional resources they have to offer on their work with bees.
First up, Sam Droege, the leading voice in native bee conservation. Sam started off by explaining that there are an estimated 4000 native bees in North America, many of which do not have names. Hence, 4000 is an estimate. In the eastern forests, we have roughly 400 species. Each bee species has a very specialized association with flowers, which he would address, but first we much realize that “whatever you know about honeybees, that does not occur and work as a natural history element in our native species. So you may have to forget everything you know about bees.” And while honeybees are magical in their own way, what we know about honeybees does not apply to native bees.
To support native bees, you need to recognize that native bees have tight relationships with the native plants they evolved with, so the objective is to provide native plants to support species level of bee/plant interactions. And to do that is easy. Sam advises:
- Select flowering plants native to your ecoregion.
- Select a diversity of plants. 'The more diverse those plants, the more bees are brought in because many of those bees have a very short list of plants that are appropriate. And each plant has a relatively short list of bees that are doing the pollination on that plant.'
- Select different colors to attract different species of bees.
- Select different floral shapes. 'All the shapes of flowers that you see, those are designed not by people in florist shops, but they’re designed by nature and they’re really being designed by a dance between bees and plants.'
- Select plants with differing bloom times, as many bees species are out for a only limited time during the growing season when their specific plant is blooming. The rest of the year, their young are in nests waiting for the subsequent year.Bees are picky. Sam introduces us to a website put together by Jared Fowler with three regions – eastern, central, and western – that illustrates bees that are the most specialized, meaning they are only gathering pollen from a particular family, genus, or species of plant. “And by planting those as your first cut, you’re lifting a lot of the conservation species, the species that are the least common because many, if not most, of the least common bees are the highly specialized bees.”
Learn more:
https://chesapeakebay.wildones.org/bees-beyond-honey-with-sam-droege/ -
“Bees Beyond Honey” with #SamDroege
Posted on Feb 23rd, 2025 | Our Education
"In the February 2025 Wild Ones webinar on 'Bees Beyond Honey, Understanding Native and Managed Pollinators' hosted by Sara Ressing, Wild Ones Education and Program Coordinator, we were introduced to three pollinator experts: USGS Wildlife biologist Sam Droege, Crown Bees founder Dave Hunter, and Associate Director of the Pollinator Partnership Lora Morandin. Sam, Dave, and Lora explored the critical roles that wild native bees, solitary managed bees, and honeybees play in our ecosystem and discussed how we can support all pollinators in a balanced and evidence-based way. Each speaker provided a 10-minute educational presentation, followed by an informative panel discussion. In this multipart series, #WildOnesChesapeakeBay will take a look at each of the panelists and additional resources they have to offer on their work with bees.
First up, Sam Droege, the leading voice in native bee conservation. Sam started off by explaining that there are an estimated 4000 native bees in North America, many of which do not have names. Hence, 4000 is an estimate. In the eastern forests, we have roughly 400 species. Each bee species has a very specialized association with flowers, which he would address, but first we much realize that “whatever you know about honeybees, that does not occur and work as a natural history element in our native species. So you may have to forget everything you know about bees.” And while honeybees are magical in their own way, what we know about honeybees does not apply to native bees.
To support native bees, you need to recognize that native bees have tight relationships with the native plants they evolved with, so the objective is to provide native plants to support species level of bee/plant interactions. And to do that is easy. Sam advises:
- Select flowering plants native to your ecoregion.
- Select a diversity of plants. 'The more diverse those plants, the more bees are brought in because many of those bees have a very short list of plants that are appropriate. And each plant has a relatively short list of bees that are doing the pollination on that plant.'
- Select different colors to attract different species of bees.
- Select different floral shapes. 'All the shapes of flowers that you see, those are designed not by people in florist shops, but they’re designed by nature and they’re really being designed by a dance between bees and plants.'
- Select plants with differing bloom times, as many bees species are out for a only limited time during the growing season when their specific plant is blooming. The rest of the year, their young are in nests waiting for the subsequent year.Bees are picky. Sam introduces us to a website put together by Jared Fowler with three regions – eastern, central, and western – that illustrates bees that are the most specialized, meaning they are only gathering pollen from a particular family, genus, or species of plant. “And by planting those as your first cut, you’re lifting a lot of the conservation species, the species that are the least common because many, if not most, of the least common bees are the highly specialized bees.”
Learn more:
https://chesapeakebay.wildones.org/bees-beyond-honey-with-sam-droege/ -
“Bees Beyond Honey” with #SamDroege
Posted on Feb 23rd, 2025 | Our Education
"In the February 2025 Wild Ones webinar on 'Bees Beyond Honey, Understanding Native and Managed Pollinators' hosted by Sara Ressing, Wild Ones Education and Program Coordinator, we were introduced to three pollinator experts: USGS Wildlife biologist Sam Droege, Crown Bees founder Dave Hunter, and Associate Director of the Pollinator Partnership Lora Morandin. Sam, Dave, and Lora explored the critical roles that wild native bees, solitary managed bees, and honeybees play in our ecosystem and discussed how we can support all pollinators in a balanced and evidence-based way. Each speaker provided a 10-minute educational presentation, followed by an informative panel discussion. In this multipart series, #WildOnesChesapeakeBay will take a look at each of the panelists and additional resources they have to offer on their work with bees.
First up, Sam Droege, the leading voice in native bee conservation. Sam started off by explaining that there are an estimated 4000 native bees in North America, many of which do not have names. Hence, 4000 is an estimate. In the eastern forests, we have roughly 400 species. Each bee species has a very specialized association with flowers, which he would address, but first we much realize that “whatever you know about honeybees, that does not occur and work as a natural history element in our native species. So you may have to forget everything you know about bees.” And while honeybees are magical in their own way, what we know about honeybees does not apply to native bees.
To support native bees, you need to recognize that native bees have tight relationships with the native plants they evolved with, so the objective is to provide native plants to support species level of bee/plant interactions. And to do that is easy. Sam advises:
- Select flowering plants native to your ecoregion.
- Select a diversity of plants. 'The more diverse those plants, the more bees are brought in because many of those bees have a very short list of plants that are appropriate. And each plant has a relatively short list of bees that are doing the pollination on that plant.'
- Select different colors to attract different species of bees.
- Select different floral shapes. 'All the shapes of flowers that you see, those are designed not by people in florist shops, but they’re designed by nature and they’re really being designed by a dance between bees and plants.'
- Select plants with differing bloom times, as many bees species are out for a only limited time during the growing season when their specific plant is blooming. The rest of the year, their young are in nests waiting for the subsequent year.Bees are picky. Sam introduces us to a website put together by Jared Fowler with three regions – eastern, central, and western – that illustrates bees that are the most specialized, meaning they are only gathering pollen from a particular family, genus, or species of plant. “And by planting those as your first cut, you’re lifting a lot of the conservation species, the species that are the least common because many, if not most, of the least common bees are the highly specialized bees.”
Learn more:
https://chesapeakebay.wildones.org/bees-beyond-honey-with-sam-droege/ -
“Bees Beyond Honey” with #SamDroege
Posted on Feb 23rd, 2025 | Our Education
"In the February 2025 Wild Ones webinar on 'Bees Beyond Honey, Understanding Native and Managed Pollinators' hosted by Sara Ressing, Wild Ones Education and Program Coordinator, we were introduced to three pollinator experts: USGS Wildlife biologist Sam Droege, Crown Bees founder Dave Hunter, and Associate Director of the Pollinator Partnership Lora Morandin. Sam, Dave, and Lora explored the critical roles that wild native bees, solitary managed bees, and honeybees play in our ecosystem and discussed how we can support all pollinators in a balanced and evidence-based way. Each speaker provided a 10-minute educational presentation, followed by an informative panel discussion. In this multipart series, #WildOnesChesapeakeBay will take a look at each of the panelists and additional resources they have to offer on their work with bees.
First up, Sam Droege, the leading voice in native bee conservation. Sam started off by explaining that there are an estimated 4000 native bees in North America, many of which do not have names. Hence, 4000 is an estimate. In the eastern forests, we have roughly 400 species. Each bee species has a very specialized association with flowers, which he would address, but first we much realize that “whatever you know about honeybees, that does not occur and work as a natural history element in our native species. So you may have to forget everything you know about bees.” And while honeybees are magical in their own way, what we know about honeybees does not apply to native bees.
To support native bees, you need to recognize that native bees have tight relationships with the native plants they evolved with, so the objective is to provide native plants to support species level of bee/plant interactions. And to do that is easy. Sam advises:
- Select flowering plants native to your ecoregion.
- Select a diversity of plants. 'The more diverse those plants, the more bees are brought in because many of those bees have a very short list of plants that are appropriate. And each plant has a relatively short list of bees that are doing the pollination on that plant.'
- Select different colors to attract different species of bees.
- Select different floral shapes. 'All the shapes of flowers that you see, those are designed not by people in florist shops, but they’re designed by nature and they’re really being designed by a dance between bees and plants.'
- Select plants with differing bloom times, as many bees species are out for a only limited time during the growing season when their specific plant is blooming. The rest of the year, their young are in nests waiting for the subsequent year.Bees are picky. Sam introduces us to a website put together by Jared Fowler with three regions – eastern, central, and western – that illustrates bees that are the most specialized, meaning they are only gathering pollen from a particular family, genus, or species of plant. “And by planting those as your first cut, you’re lifting a lot of the conservation species, the species that are the least common because many, if not most, of the least common bees are the highly specialized bees.”
Learn more:
https://chesapeakebay.wildones.org/bees-beyond-honey-with-sam-droege/ -
“Bees Beyond Honey” with #SamDroege
Posted on Feb 23rd, 2025 | Our Education
"In the February 2025 Wild Ones webinar on 'Bees Beyond Honey, Understanding Native and Managed Pollinators' hosted by Sara Ressing, Wild Ones Education and Program Coordinator, we were introduced to three pollinator experts: USGS Wildlife biologist Sam Droege, Crown Bees founder Dave Hunter, and Associate Director of the Pollinator Partnership Lora Morandin. Sam, Dave, and Lora explored the critical roles that wild native bees, solitary managed bees, and honeybees play in our ecosystem and discussed how we can support all pollinators in a balanced and evidence-based way. Each speaker provided a 10-minute educational presentation, followed by an informative panel discussion. In this multipart series, #WildOnesChesapeakeBay will take a look at each of the panelists and additional resources they have to offer on their work with bees.
First up, Sam Droege, the leading voice in native bee conservation. Sam started off by explaining that there are an estimated 4000 native bees in North America, many of which do not have names. Hence, 4000 is an estimate. In the eastern forests, we have roughly 400 species. Each bee species has a very specialized association with flowers, which he would address, but first we much realize that “whatever you know about honeybees, that does not occur and work as a natural history element in our native species. So you may have to forget everything you know about bees.” And while honeybees are magical in their own way, what we know about honeybees does not apply to native bees.
To support native bees, you need to recognize that native bees have tight relationships with the native plants they evolved with, so the objective is to provide native plants to support species level of bee/plant interactions. And to do that is easy. Sam advises:
- Select flowering plants native to your ecoregion.
- Select a diversity of plants. 'The more diverse those plants, the more bees are brought in because many of those bees have a very short list of plants that are appropriate. And each plant has a relatively short list of bees that are doing the pollination on that plant.'
- Select different colors to attract different species of bees.
- Select different floral shapes. 'All the shapes of flowers that you see, those are designed not by people in florist shops, but they’re designed by nature and they’re really being designed by a dance between bees and plants.'
- Select plants with differing bloom times, as many bees species are out for a only limited time during the growing season when their specific plant is blooming. The rest of the year, their young are in nests waiting for the subsequent year.Bees are picky. Sam introduces us to a website put together by Jared Fowler with three regions – eastern, central, and western – that illustrates bees that are the most specialized, meaning they are only gathering pollen from a particular family, genus, or species of plant. “And by planting those as your first cut, you’re lifting a lot of the conservation species, the species that are the least common because many, if not most, of the least common bees are the highly specialized bees.”
Learn more:
https://chesapeakebay.wildones.org/bees-beyond-honey-with-sam-droege/ -
#SRCTV - All About Bees - #SamDroege, USGS Bee Lab
Uploaded on Dec 30, 2024
"Honeybees are using all the native plants or a lot of them too, and they're big competitors with the native bees. So if you are the reason that you're a beekeeper and the reason that you have hives on your property is because you think you're saving bees, you're actually doing the opposite. You're bringing in competitors with the native bees and you're not doing anything really to uplift the total population safely for honeybees. You simply have a bunch of pet insects."
Learn more:
https://vimeo.com/1042995986#WorldBeeDay #NativeBees #Pollinators #SacoRiverCommunityTelevision
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#SRCTV - All About Bees - #SamDroege, USGS Bee Lab
Uploaded on Dec 30, 2024
"Honeybees are using all the native plants or a lot of them too, and they're big competitors with the native bees. So if you are the reason that you're a beekeeper and the reason that you have hives on your property is because you think you're saving bees, you're actually doing the opposite. You're bringing in competitors with the native bees and you're not doing anything really to uplift the total population safely for honeybees. You simply have a bunch of pet insects."
Learn more:
https://vimeo.com/1042995986#WorldBeeDay #NativeBees #Pollinators #SacoRiverCommunityTelevision
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#SRCTV - All About Bees - #SamDroege, USGS Bee Lab
Uploaded on Dec 30, 2024
"Honeybees are using all the native plants or a lot of them too, and they're big competitors with the native bees. So if you are the reason that you're a beekeeper and the reason that you have hives on your property is because you think you're saving bees, you're actually doing the opposite. You're bringing in competitors with the native bees and you're not doing anything really to uplift the total population safely for honeybees. You simply have a bunch of pet insects."
Learn more:
https://vimeo.com/1042995986#WorldBeeDay #NativeBees #Pollinators #SacoRiverCommunityTelevision
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#SRCTV - All About Bees - #SamDroege, USGS Bee Lab
Uploaded on Dec 30, 2024
"Honeybees are using all the native plants or a lot of them too, and they're big competitors with the native bees. So if you are the reason that you're a beekeeper and the reason that you have hives on your property is because you think you're saving bees, you're actually doing the opposite. You're bringing in competitors with the native bees and you're not doing anything really to uplift the total population safely for honeybees. You simply have a bunch of pet insects."
Learn more:
https://vimeo.com/1042995986#WorldBeeDay #NativeBees #Pollinators #SacoRiverCommunityTelevision
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#SRCTV - All About Bees - #SamDroege, USGS Bee Lab
Uploaded on Dec 30, 2024
"Honeybees are using all the native plants or a lot of them too, and they're big competitors with the native bees. So if you are the reason that you're a beekeeper and the reason that you have hives on your property is because you think you're saving bees, you're actually doing the opposite. You're bringing in competitors with the native bees and you're not doing anything really to uplift the total population safely for honeybees. You simply have a bunch of pet insects."
Learn more:
https://vimeo.com/1042995986#WorldBeeDay #NativeBees #Pollinators #SacoRiverCommunityTelevision