Wednesday, 17 November 2004: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

151 G (Salt Palace L-1)

Program Symposium: The Well Bee-ing of Pollinators and Their Impacts on Agricultural and Natural Ecosystems

Organizer(s): Theresa L. Pitts-Singer, tsinger@biology.usu.edu
Rosalind James, rjames@biology.usu.edu
William P. Kemp, wkemp@biology.usu.edu
8:00 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:10 AM0883Honey bees and bumble bees: New alliances with old friends  [ Recorded presentation ]
Peter Kevan, pkevan@uoguelph.ca
8:30 AM0884Developmental biology of Osmia lignaria and rearing of its populations for orchard pollination  [ Recorded presentation ]
Jordi Bosch, Jordi.Bosch@uab.es, William P. Kemp, wkemp@biology.usu.edu
8:50 AM0885Diseases in managed bees  [ Recorded presentation ]
Rosalind James, rjames@biology.usu.edu
9:10 AM0886Management of alfalfa leafcutting bees over four decades  [ Recorded presentation ]
Theresa L. Pitts-Singer, tsinger@biology.usu.edu
9:30 AM0887Introduction of exotic bees for crop pollination  [ Recorded presentation ]
Carlos H. Vergara, cvergara@mail.udlap.mx
9:50 AMBreak
10:00 AM0888Wild bee communities as crop pollinators: Landscape-level effects  [ Recorded presentation ]
Claire Kremen, ckremen@Princeton.EDU
10:20 AM0889Bees and seed production for native plant restoration in wildlands
James Cane, jcane@biology.usu.edu
10:40 AM0890Interactions between invasive exotic plants and pollinators  [ Recorded presentation ]
Karen Goodell, goodell.18@osu.edu
11:20 AM0892Bee pollination of genetically-modified crops: effects on bee diversity, abundance and crop yield
Lora Morandin, lmorandi@sfu.ca, Mark Winston, winston@sfu.ca
11:40 AMConcluding Remarks

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