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Tag: pollinator decline

  • Sunday, April 3, 1:00 pm – How to Create a Pollinator Victory Garden

    Many pollinator species have suffered serious declines in recent years. It’s a problem that affects all of us, but most of our landscapes offer little in the way of habitat, nectar and pollen. With simple strategies, you can attract and support not just bees, but an array of pollinators. Come to the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster on Sunday, April 3 at 1 pm to learn how to win the war on pollinator decline.

    Kim Eierman is a Certified Horticulturist and founder of EcoBeneficial!, a horticulture consulting and communications company dedicated to improving our environment by promoting ecological landscaping and the use of native plants. Join Kim in this informative, educational, enlightening program and learn how you can create your own Pollinator Victory Garden and win the war on pollinator decline. Every landscape counts!

    Lecture Admission is $10 per person APCC Members $5  Tickets available online at www.ccmnh.org The Gardening for Life Speaker Series is sponsored in part by the Friends of CCMNH and APCC (The Association to Preserve Cape Cod). For more information please call: 508-896-3867, ext. 133

  • Tuesday, December 8, 7:30 pm – Role of Floral Traits in Mediating Disease Transmission

    The next meeting of the Cambridge Entomological Club will be held on Tuesday, December 8 at 7:30 PM in in room 101 of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge. Lynn S. Adler, Professor of Biology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst,  will present a talk entitled Role of Floral Traits in Mediating Disease Transmission.

    All are welcome to join us at 5:45 at the West Side Lounge for an informal pre-meeting dinner. Please note the change in location from past dinners!

    Lynn’s work addresses how floral traits can affect bee pathogen loads and disease transmission. Although many researchers now study bee pathogens due to concerns about pollinator decline, we still know remarkably little about the role of plants in mediating bee diseases. In this talk she will demonstrate how nectar chemistry and pollen can affect bee gut pathogen loads, how transmission varies across plant species and consequences of plant variation for colony-level bee disease loads. The meeting is free and open to the public.  Image from www.nationofchange.org.