Bumblebee Expert Leif Richardson - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 2, 2014

May 19, 2019 00:24:22
Bumblebee Expert Leif Richardson - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 2, 2014
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Bumblebee Expert Leif Richardson - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 2, 2014

May 19 2019 | 00:24:22

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Show Notes

ICAN IDENTIFY A LOT OF PLANTS, and I’m pretty good with my local bird and frog species, but a landmark book has me putting down my trowel every time someone buzzes by and having a careful look at bees–especially bumblebees. The book is “Bumble Bees of North America: An Identification Guide,” and one of its four esteemed co-authors, Leif Richardson, joined me for a bumblebee 101 on the radio. Get a closer look at bees, and maybe win the book, too.

bumblebee in geranium phaeum

Richardson, who got his doctoral degree in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Dartmouth College and is now an ecological consultant and post-doc candidate, created “Bumble Bees of North America: An Identification Guide,” for Princeton University Press with Paul Williams, Robbin Thorpe, and Sheila Colla. As you’d see in a field guide to birds, range maps for each species are included, along with sections on natural history and conservation and even a glossary with up-close images of bumblebee body parts and more.

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