🌿Brilliant Native Bees of BC – Julia Taylor
BC is home to around 600 different native bee species and has the greatest diversity of native bees in all of Canada. This include 30 species of bumble bees, as well as mason bees, miner bees, leafcutter bees, carpenter bees, and the beautiful sweat bees whose metallic beauty seems at odds with their humble name. These bees don’t make honey, but are essential for pollination of most of our native wildflowers, and like honeybees, they pollinate crops that provide us with food.
Julia Taylor is a Board Member of the Native Bee Society of British Columbia.
This presentation was a Hybrid of In Person and Zoom video conferencing.
Watch the video at Videos Of Evening Presentations
Resources:
BCNativeBees.org – Native Bee Society of British Columbia
Pollinator Partnership — pollinator.org wikipedia.org
– Find Your Roots Native Plant Finder
– Eco-regional Planting Guides
Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation xerces.org
– Pollinator Conservation Centre
– Native Plant Resources
Book: Bees in Your Backyard, 2016 — Joseph S. Wilson & Olivia Messinger Carril
Book: Common Bees of Western North America, 2023 — Olivia Messinger Carril & Joseph S. Wilson
iNaturalist project: – NBSBC Bee Tracker
