USDA NRCS Honey Bee Monitoring Training
Webinar Details
When:
May 29, 2014 2:00 pm US/Eastern
Length: 01:16 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Reviewed for Continued Content Relevance: 04/2017
Presenter(s):
- Mace Vaughan, Joint Pollinator Conservation Specialist, USDA NRCS West National Technology Support Center and Pollinator Program Director, The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, Portland, OR
CEU Credits/Certificate Offered:
- Certificate of Participation
- Conservation Planner (CP) - 2 hour Conservation Planning Credit
- The Wildlife Society - Certified Wildlife Biologist®/Professional Development Certificate Program - 2 hour TWS Category 1 Credit
Virtual Event Format:
Group Viewing Available:
Participants will learn how to conduct monitoring required for the 2014 Honey Bee Habitat Effort in the Northern Great Plains and Great Lakes states.
Photo: Rollin Coville
Important instructions for earning CEUs and a participation certificate:
To complete this training you must successfully complete a quiz that includes honey bee identification after the webinar.
- Download or print Honey Bee Monitoring Post-test Pictures
- Select to earn CEUs during the registration process to be offered the quiz
Training Overview
In order to better understand honey bee use of habitat plantings, protect those bees from adjacent pesticide use, and improve NRCS understanding of the bloom time for various cover crop and wildflower species, most projects contracted under the Honey Bee Habitat Effort require that the landowner monitor the plantings for honey bee visitation and bloom abundance. In this training, Mace Vaughan will teach the specific details of the monitoring requirements and protocol. He also will provide an overview of bee identification to ensure that participants are better able to distinguish honey bees from the 100s of other insects (bees, flies, and wasps) that are visiting honey bee habitat plantings.
This webinar is sponsored by the USDA NRCS Central National Technology Support Center.
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