Protecting Our Pollinators: Current pollinator health and conservation efforts in the Midwest

Tuesday, March 11, 2014: 7:55 AM-11:30 AM
Council Bluffs (Des Moines Marriott)
Organizers:
Thelma Heidel-Baker
Adam Dolezal


7:55 AM
Introductory Remarks
8:00 AM
87
Linking pollinator health to soil health and watershed management
Marty Adkins, USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service
8:20 AM
88
Effect of landscape resources and grassland management practices on bee abundance and nutrition in a Midwestern agricultural landscape
Amy L. Toth, Iowa State University
8:40 AM
89
Influence of land use on wild bee diversity in the Prairie Potholes Region of North Dakota
Elaine Evans, University of Minnesota
9:00 AM
90
Bees and flowers in the city: Pollination of vegetables and wildflowers in residential yards
David Lowenstein, University of Illinois at Chicago ; Emily Minor, University of Illinois
9:20 AM
91
Bumble Boosters 2.0: Pollinator conservation through education research and outreach
Louise Lynch, University of Nebraska - Lincoln ; Douglas Golick, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
9:40 AM
Break
9:50 AM
92
Teaching pollination literacy through the Pollination to Plate mobile application
Douglas Golick, University of Nebraska - Lincoln ; Marion Ellis, University of Nebraska ; Tiffany Heng-Moss, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
10:10 AM
93
Interaction between landscape use, pollen diet, and virus dynamics in honey bees
Adam Dolezal, Iowa State University
10:30 AM
94
Sustaining specialty crop pollination through conservation
Rufus Isaacs, Michigan State University ; Jason Gibbs, Michigan State University ; Ashley Bennett, Michigan State University ; Brett R. Blaauw, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey ; Emily May, Michigan State University
10:50 AM
95
Perennial grasslands increase multiple ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes
Douglas A. Landis, Michigan State University
11:10 AM
96
Impacts of agricultural land use on the health and survival of commercial honey bees
Matthew Smart, University of Minnesota
11:30 AM
97
Concluding Remarks
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