Thursday, February 18, 2021
12:00 – 1:30 pm CST

Presented by
Maria van Dyke, M.S.

Agenda Highlights:
Difference between non-native honey bee and native species
Importance of native bees
Bee diversity
How bees and other pollinators live their lives
Bee life history and how it plays into creating habitat (sociality,
specialist vs generalist species, body size, different species-different foraging times)
Plants for bees, flies and butterflies
Planning your habitat and habitat management
Planting and landscape management plan
Importance of underlying wetland hydrology