Entomologist May Berenbaum is here today to take our questions about bee , their recent decline , and what we can expect from our pollinators in the future .
Berenbaumheads the Entomology department at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign , where she is both a prof and a chairperson of bugology . In accession to looking at our dwindling pollinator population , her research has also focused on the tangled relationships between insects and legion - plants .
She chaired the Committee on the Status of Pollinators in North America for the National Research Council and she ’ll be taking over as the president of the Entomological Society of America in 2016 . Berenbaum has written a number of books on insects and she is also the founder of theInsect Fear Film Festival , which showcases the unknown ( and commonly very scientifically implausible ) assembling of giant bugs , swarms , and miscellaneous dirt ball anomalies that have appeared on the bounteous screen over the years .
She ’ll be joining us today from 10:00 – 11 : 00 a.m. ( peaceable prison term ) . So start involve her questions now about dirt ball behavior , the hold of louse on our resourcefulness , and what the future tense bear for our bee colonies .
range : The Honey bee , Apis mellifera by Sam Droege /USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab .
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