Presentation: The Master Melittologist Program’s Oregon Bee Atlas: A Statewide Initiative to Document the Floral Relations of Oregon’s Native Bee Fauna Using Community Scientists.

Friday, April 19, 7:00 pm *Note this is Friday, not a Monday meeting.
Presentation: The Master Melittologist Program’s Oregon Bee Atlas: A Statewide
Initiative to Document the Floral Relations of Oregon’s Native Bee Fauna Using Community Scientists.
Speaker: Lincoln Best, Faculty Research Assistant, Oregon State University
Location: In Person, 221 Allen Hall, University of Oregon campus. Venue may change, so check https://eugenenaturalhistorysociety.org/ to stay informed.

Lincoln will introduce the productive framework for education through the online Master Melittologist Program and data production for the Oregon Bee Atlas. These complementary programs have assessed native bee visitors to more than 1,500 plant taxa in the state and have detected several hundred species of bees including new state records and new species. Using a combination of traditional morphological examination and DNA-barcoding to identify species continues to expand our knowledge of the state bee fauna.

Lincoln Best is the taxonomist for the Oregon Bee Atlas and collaborates on research with many other groups in the Pacific Northwest and internationally. He is most interested in faunistics and the floral relations of these amazing animals.