Seed Mixes & Ground Nesting Habitats [Online]

Seed Mixes & Ground Nesting Habitats

Wednesday, June 22, 6:30 – 7:30 pm

$5 Members, $10 Nonmembers
Location: GoToWebinar

Instructor: Julia Brokaw is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Cariveau Native Bee Lab at the University of Minnesota

This presentation is all about the ground-nesting bees and will cover gardening and habitat restoration tips to support nesting habitats for wild bees. In addition, Julia will talk about the emerging data showing how different seed mixes impact bee nesting habits.

Julia Brokaw is a fourth year PhD student in the Cariveau Native Bee Lab at the University of Minnesota. She studies nesting habitat preferences of solitary ground-nesting bees, how prescribed burns influence their nesting areas, and how to develop cost-effective tallgrass prairie seed mixes for wild bees. She is also studying conservation policy and is interested in how to develop transformative, grassroots, science-informed policies that support both pollinators and people. Before starting her PhD, she studied pollinators across the US in New York apple orchards, the deserts of California, and the pollinators of blueberries in Michigan.