Beginner Bee ID Workshop!
Great news! We'd like to announce that Bee Campus, in partnership with ESF's Entomology Club, will be hosting an on-campus bee ID workshop on Tuesday, April 9th, from 11am-12pm in Illick 5.
ESF pollinator ecologist Molly Jacobson will be introducing the ~20 common bee genera in the northeast, and will teach you how to distinguish them primarily using features visible to the naked eye or in photos. Not everyone has a microscope, and most of the time you're encountering bees, it's alive and in the wild! We'll also be showing you how to most effectively collect data for our iNat project and our campus bee inventory - the best angles to get, which genera should be captured vs photographed, and how to catch bees for us. Lastly, there will be a pinning tutorial in our campus bee lab, and the chance to see some bee specimens - this part will also be repeated at Entomology Club's weekly meeting the next day, at 6-7pm, for those who couldn't make it.
This is a great opportunity to start learning bee ID, which is a coveted career skill for anyone interested in pursuing entomology, pollinator habitat management, or a related discipline. Many bee ID courses cost hundreds of dollars, and while this will certainly be a speedrun and be a primarily visual (photo-based) presentation, you'll still be getting a lot of knowledge from an experienced bee researcher - for free!
No prior experience with bees is necessary - we'll introduce the bare minimum anatomical terms relevant to ID and avoid too many microscopic features. A notebook is recommended. The pdf of the presentation will be made available here, on this project, afterwards for you to look back at as a resource.
Please see the event page on Engage to RSVP: https://engage.esf.edu/event/10053602
We hope to see you there!
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