Tag: Native Bees

• It’s Okay to Pull Back (Or, Confessions of a Would-Be Entomologist)

  Friday, I met my student, Gabrielle, on a frosty spring morning to set up traps for her capstone project. Gabrielle is following up on work begun last year assessing the impact of stem nester refugia on native bee communities in prairie remnants at Jerry Smith Park. Sampling in 2020 hit some roadblocks due to the…

  Karin Rita Gastreich

  April 6, 2021

  bees, conservation, ecology, life, nature, science, Women and Science

  Covid Life, Native Bees

• Virtual Inspiration

  By February of this year, when Covid-19 was just making its presence known in the U.S., my summer calendar was booked. Early June, I planned to attend the Society for Ecological Restoration’s (SER) global conference in Quebec. By midsummer, I would be at Kenyon College in Ohio teaching their summer Young Science Writers program. My…

  Karin Rita Gastreich

  August 3, 2020

  bees, conservation, ecology, nature

  NACCB2020, Native Bees, urban ecology