<div dir="ltr"><div><div 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="font:inherit;color:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The Orchard Bee Association invites you to attend our <span class="gmail-il">2023</span> 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 28 - Saturday September 30 at Utah State University in Logan, Utah and virtually over Zoom</b>. </span></span><span style="font-family:inherit;font-size:11pt;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">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><span style="font:inherit;color:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">The Orchard Bee Association (<span class="gmail-il">OBA</span>) was started in 2011 by a team of independent businesses, orchard managers, and researchers to </span><span style="font:inherit;color:inherit;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">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://tinyurl.com/OrchardBee-2023">https://tinyurl.com/OrchardBee-2023</a></span><br></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 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 to submit abstracts for our <span class="gmail-il">2023</span> 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. </span><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">We welcome abstract submissions until Friday, September 8th. Please contact Kate LeCroy at <a href="mailto:kl476@cornell.edu" target="_blank">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"> </span></span><a href="https://forms.gle/SxRCy7rAmvwWWoAS9" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;text-align:center">https://forms.gle/SxRCy7rAmvwWWoAS9</a></div></div><div><br></div><div><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">Kate LeCroy</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif">, Ph.D.</span><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif"><i>she/her/hers</i></span><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="black" face="georgia,serif">Postdoctoral Associate, McArt Lab</font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="black" face="georgia,serif">Department of Entomology, </font><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-f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