[Pollinator] USDA national native bee monitoring plan

[Melina Lozano Duran]

Webinar started at 8 and ended at 11 am like you said because of low
attendance.
I tried and wrote the important points the people presenting were making.

June 28, 8 to 11 am a discussion on monitoring native bees took place,
several speakers made their point about it,  Universities from all over the
country, beekeeper associations and others.

andrew.p.clark at nifa.usda.gov, send commentary about the standardized survey
being a bad idea and that there is actual botanical data! *(my opinion)*


   - Crop pollination by native bees are underappreciated, NY apple crop is
   more successful on seed set when native bees are abundant.
   - Collection and use of data, to have a better model. USDA guidelines
   - Data collection needs to be robust,  continuous, and id all
   specimens to species
   - Bee-plant interaction needs to be understood better
   - 100 radius Honey Bees can starve native bees if there are not enough
   resources
   - Future of food production
   - Native plant community is critical, botanical data (which there is by
   the way)
   - Identify which are the prolific bee species per region
   - Pesticide regulation is failing, keeping poisonous products in the
   market
   - Understand bee cycles better to use in crops
   - More taxonomic expertise is necessary
   - There is more knowledge on Bombus species than any other natives
   - Understanding diseases,  fungus, pests on native bees
   - Understanding invasive non-native bee species
   - Improve conservation efforts once data is available
   - Abundance, identity, and species richness
   - Will standardized sampling help with better data?
   - Climate change is a significant factor in decline of native bees in
   cities
   - Introducing more honey bee hives into cities, not a good ideas either *(my
   opinion)*

Melina

-- 

*Melina Lozano Durán, Agroecology-Melittology Esp.*
Department of  Research and Conservation
Pollinator Garden Coordinator


*Atlant**a Botanical Garden*
  1345 Piedmont Ave NE
      Atlanta, GA 30309

Cellphone: 404-914-7535 <(404)%20914-7535> / Office number: 404-591-1590
<(404)%20591-1590>
mduran at atlantabg.org


This curious world
which we inhabit
is more wonderful
then it is convenient,
more beautiful than it is useful,
it is more to be admired and enjoyed
than used.

Thoreau, 1837


No Mind

The flower invites the butterfly with no-mind;
The butterfly visits the flower with no-mind.
The flower opens, the butterfly comes;
The butterfly comes, the flower opens.
I don't know others,
Others don't know me.
By not knowing we follow nature's course.

 Ryokan
from "Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf" translated by John Stevens



Click here to Reply or Forward
2.64 GB (8%) of 30 GB used
Manage <https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/storage?hl=en>
Program Policies
<https://www.gmail.com/intl/en/mail/help/program_policies.html>
Powered by
Google
<https://www.google.com/>
Last account activity: 44 minutes ago
Details

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:01 PM, David Inouye <inouye at umd.edu> wrote:

> Dear ECOLOG Colleagues,
>
> I'm reaching out to those of you who might "bee" interested in commenting on a USDA national
> native bee monitoring plan, which is under development. Comments are due in ONE WEEK, July 6th.
> Details are as follows.
>
> Last night I received an email from a colleague that there is exactly a 1-week window to provide
> comment on the Federal Register to the USDA on a National Native Bee Monitoring plan.  There was
> an online "listening session" scheduled for today but as I signed on I saw it was "cancelled for low
> attendance". [[If you don't tell anyone about your "listening session", and you get low attendance, it is
> not for lack of interest, it is because the event was not properly advertised.]]
>
> It is more important than ever that we help each other seek and act in ways we can support
> conservation science. Although this is not my main area of research (I am a physiological plant
> ecologist), I am active in supporting prairie restoration and monitoring biodiversity where I work, on
> Antioch College's large campus, and I collaborate with a Dayton-based pollinator conservation group.
> We have a >500 ft^2 prairie habitat in our front lawn in Columbus, Ohio. Pollinator biology has many
> passionate enthusiasts, and is a venue where we ecologists can connect to the public on a shared
> aesthetic and conservation value. There are also many links to broader impacts, citizen science, and
> K-12 education.
>
> The link is below. Can you please share with your respective pollinator-supporting networks?
> Remember comments are due July 6th!
>
> Thank you very much for helping spread the word.  -K
>
> From USDA Scientist Diana Cox-Foster:
> "I want to alert you to a solicitation by the USDA’s Pollinator Health Working Group to get input from
> stakeholders on the need for and importance of monitoring native pollinators. Such initiatives will be
> important in learning about the native bees’ health and also help to promote efforts to protect their
> health and the plants which they pollinate.  This native bee survey will hopefully not only involve
> agricultural ecosystems but also natural ecosystems throughout the nation."
>
> Provide your comments through the Federal Register, see:
> https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/06/05/2017-11554/national-monitoring-plan-for-
> native-bees-stakeholder-and-public-listening-session
>
>
> Kim Landsbergen Ph.D., ESA Certified Senior Ecologist
>   Associate Professor, Antioch College
>   Visiting Research Scholar, EEOB, The Ohio State University
>
> e: kim dot landsbergen at gmail dot com
>
> --
> Dr. David W. Inouye
> Professor Emeritus
> Department of Biology
> University of Maryland
> College Park, MD 20742-4415inouye at umd.edu
>
> Principal Investigator
> Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
> PO Box 519
> Crested Butte, CO 81224
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Pollinator mailing list
> Pollinator at lists.sonic.net
> https://lists.sonic.net/mailman/listinfo/pollinator
>
>


-- 
*Melina Lozano Durán*
Agroecóloga, Melitóloga (Gracias Charles Duncan Michener RIP)
404.914.7535

En el nombre de la abeja
De la mariposa
De la brisa...Amen!
Emily Dickinson

In the name of the bee
the butterfly
and the breeze...Amen!
Emily Dickinson

For peace is not the mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs
from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza

Be the change you wish to see in the world. Gandhi

Se el cambio que deseas ver en el mundo. Gandhi
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.sonic.net/pipermail/pollinator/attachments/20170628/cd6f86b4/attachment.html>