<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">The Orchard Bee Association invites you to attend our 2022 annual meeting <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">occurring<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span><b>Thursday September 29 - Saturday October 1 at Utah State University in Logan, Utah and virtually over Zoom</b>. </span></span>This annual meeting brings together researchers, orchard managers, and businesses to hear about the latest research on mason bees and learn about updates from orchard managers across the country. <span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">The Orchard Bee Association (OBA) was started in 2011 by a team of independent businesses, orchard managers, and researchers to </span><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">encourage a role of stewardship, preservation, and enhancement of orchard bee populations as well as responsible wild bee management practices to preserve local genetic stock of bees with respect to elevation, climate, and local flora. Registration, hotel block information, and further details can be found here: <a href="https://www.orchardbee.org/" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.orchardbee.org/</a></span></span></div><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br></span></div><div class="elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">The Orchard Bee Association invites researchers and growers to submit abstracts for our 2022 annual meeting.<span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"> </span><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">We especially welcome graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to submit their work. </span>Oral presentations will be 12 minutes with 3 additional minutes for questions, and a formal poster session will be held. We request the submission of abstracts by <b>Monday, August 22nd for priority consideration and quickest turnaround</b>, but we welcome abstract submissions until Friday, September 9th. </span><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Please contact Kate LeCroy at <a href="mailto:kl476@cornell.edu">kl476@cornell.edu</a> with any questions or if you have difficulty accessing the following form: </span><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Abstract submission form - </span><a href="https://forms.gle/gPvjwkzxMLuRgftSA" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">https://forms.gle/gPvjwkzxMLuRgftSA</a></span></div></div><div class="elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="elementToProof" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><img src="cid:ii_l6l5qv9j1" alt="Flyer_2022 OBA Annual Meeting.jpg" width="542" height="419"><span style="font-size:small;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span><br></div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif" size="4" color="#000000">Kat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