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URL:https://vnps.org/johnclayton/events/native-bees-and-native-plants-part
 ners-in-pollination-a-zoom-presentation-with-barb-abraham/
SUMMARY:Native Bees and Native Plants: Partners in Pollination\, A Zoom Pre
 sentation with Barb Abraham
DESCRIPTION:Zoom link will be posted here.\n\nAbout the Presentation\n\nDr.
  Barb Abraham will be covering the following points:\n\n 	Is it a bee\, a 
 wasp\, or a fly?\n 	Native bee families &amp\; examples in Virginia\n 	Nat
 ive bee life cycles &amp\; nesting habits\n 	Bee pollinator syndrome &amp\
 ; bee feeding habits\n 	Threats to native bees\n 	Principles for bee garde
 ns\n\nAbout the Presenter\n\nDr. Barbara J Abraham earned her BS in Zoolog
 y with minors in Botany and Genetics at Iowa State University and her MS i
 n Animal Behavior\, also from Iowa State. She earned a PhD in Ecology at U
 tah State University.\n\nBarb retired from full-time teaching after 31 yea
 rs at Hampton University in 2016 and began teaching as an adjunct at Chris
 topher Newport University. She said she “couldn’t go cold turkey” on
  teaching. Her courses at CNU have included Toxic and Venomous Animals\, E
 volution\, Introductory Biology for non-majors\, Junior Seminar for Majors
  (a writing-intensive course) and Ecosystem Services of Insects. She began
  teaching for CNU’s Lifelong Learning Institute several years ago\, and 
 has taught Toxic &amp\; Venomous Animals\, What’s in Your Backyard (cour
 ses in Vertebrates and Invertebrates)\, Good Garden Bugs\, and currently\,
  The Plight of the Bumblebee/ Save the Pollinators! This summer she will t
 each a course on Spiders.\n\nBarb studied spiders while at Utah State Univ
 ersity and continued while at HU\, conducting research at the Iowa Lakesid
 e Lab and later in Virginia. After over 30 years of studying spiders\, she
  turned to native bees and conducted research at Mtn. Lake Biological Stat
 ion.\n\nShe was the driving force behind Hampton becoming a Bee City USA a
 ffiliate in 2019.
CATEGORIES:Chapter Events,John Clayton,Video Conferences
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