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Tag: Thomas Seeley

  • Monday, May 16, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Bee Keeping Panel

    On Monday, May 16, beginning at 6 pm in the Boston Public Library Central Library in Copley Square, 700 Boylston Street, hear a Bee Keeping Panel with Joseph Wilson and Olivia Messinger Carrill, authors of The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America’s Bees, and Thomas Seeley, author of Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting.

    In The Bees in Your Backyard, Joseph Wilson and Olivia Messinger Carril provide an engaging introduction to the roughly four thousand different bee species found in the United States and Canada, dispelling common myths about bees while offering essential tips for telling them apart in the field. In Following the Wild Bees, world honeybee authority Thomas Seeley reintroduces readers to the lost pastime of bee hunting, explaining not only the “how-to” but the “how-come” of the sport. Requiring no costly equipment or prior experience, bee hunting offers anyone—whether beekeeper, naturalist, layman, adult, or child—a way to understand nature on a deeper level through an outdoor craft that many people once knew but few practice today.  Free admission.

  • Tuesday, April 3, 6:00 pm – Learning From Insects: How Our World is Shaped by Bees, Ants, and Other Social Insects

    Discover why many of the world’s top scientists have devoted their careers to the study of social insects in Learning From Insects: How Our World is Shaped by Bees, Ants, and Other Social Insects, a dialogue and booksigning with Thomas Seeley, Biology Professor at Cornell, and Bernd Heinrich, Profession Emeritus at the University of Vermont, on Tuesday, April 3, at 6:00 pm at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge. Moderated by Professor Naomi Pierce, Curator of Lepidoptera in the MCZ at Harvard. The speakers will discuss their research and why it’s critical that we study and learn from insects.

    Following the presentation, there will be reception and book signing in the Museum’s galleries. Cosponsored with Harvard University Press. Free and open to the public. Free parking available in the 52 Oxford Street garage.  For more information, visit www.hmnh.harvard.edu.

  • Tuesday, October 12, 6:00 pm – Honeybee Democracy

    As they face the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home every year, honeybees employ a complex decision-making process that includes fact finding, vigorous debate, and consensus building. Thomas Seeley, world-renowned animal behaviorist and Professor of Biology at Cornell, will explore what these incredible insects can teach us about collective wisdom and democracy on Tuesday, October 12, beginning at 6 pm. Free and open to the public. The venue will be the Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street. Cosponsored with the Cambridge Entomological Club. For more information, log on to www.hmnh.harvard.edu.