Aaron’s webinar on his Ph.D. research has been posted on YouTube.
He highlights some really interesting results from his 2017 and 2018 field seasons, including recommendations for what to plant, if you are interested in attracting native bees to your garden. I’ve asked him to write a blog post, summarizing the results to readers.
In case you missed the webinar on our garden bee research, I’ve embedded the video, below. The entire webinar is about an hour.
And, make sure to mark your calendars for Monday, October 22nd at 11am PST. Aaron Anderson will be presenting a FIRST LOOK webinar on his research on native plant-pollinator associations. Visit the hypertexted link, above, to register for this FREE webinar.
Aaron was sharing some of his latest data with me, just this past week. His data, collected at replicated field plots in Aurora, Oregon, echoes what we’ve seen in home garden sites around Oregon: for native bees, Douglas Aster was a top performer.
If you are interested in hearing more about our research, please consider sitting in on one of the upcoming webinars we are presenting, as part of the Advanced Training Series for Master Gardeners, organized by OSU Extension Faculty Member, Brooke Edmunds. Gail will be speaking on August 30th, about garden bees. Aaron will be speaking on October 22 on his native plant research. There is also a presentation in November by Melodie Putnam (not in our lab group ~ but a great speaker) on plant galls.
Webinars qualify for Master Gardener continuing education units in Oregon. The webinars are free, but you must pre-register. After the presentations, all webinar recordings are posted on Brooke’s YouTube channel.
More details, and link to the registration page, can be found, below.
Thursday 8/30 at 11am PT
The latest research on bees in the garden: an update from the OSU Garden Ecology Lab.
Speaker: Dr. Gail Langellotto (OSU)
https://learn.extension.org/events/3443
Monday 10/22 at 11am PT
‘First Look’: OSU Research on Native Plants in the PNW Garden
Speaker: Aaron Anderson (OSU graduate student)
https://learn.extension.org/events/3494
Monday 11/19 at 11am PT
The Weird and Wonderful World of Plant Galls
Melodie Putnam (OSU Plant Clinic)
https://learn.extension.org/events/3493
Missed a webinar?
Catch up with the 2018 series here: https://tinyurl.com/yczwxjvr (opens in YouTube)