Sound Bites: Amherst Regional Middle School

Friday, 12 June 2015

Fernald Club's Evan Palmer-Young gave a talk about bees, flowers, and pollination to the 8th grade students at Amherst Middle School Here are the slides. Thanks to Amy and Arianne for organizing the Sound Bites talk series to let graduate students out of the lab.

Here's the audio recording from the talk. The slides are paste below:

GREENFIELD BEE FESTIVAL

6 JUNE 2015: GREENFIELD BEE FESTIVAL

The annual Greenfield Bee Festival was held at the Second Congregational Church in Greenfield. UMass's Jarrod Fowler and Fernald Club's deputy blogger Evan Palmer-Young gave talks.
Here's Evan's talk, bookended by 2 bee ecology limericks.

With our bee populations at risk
Humble farmers must ask as they disc
How to keep bees alive
'til the spring rains arrive
Will the scientists say but "tisk-tisk"?


From a plant to a bee nectar's sweet
But it's only a summertime treat
All the rest of the year
Plants are nibbled by deer
And must choose to defend or be meat

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Posted by Evan Palmer-Young on 6/6/2015