Bees in Your Backyard

Reader Contribution by Melanie M. Kirby and Zia Queen Bees

About half a year ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Olivia Messinger-Carril, who co-authored,The Bees in your Backyard, published by Princeton Press.  She had recently moved to New Mexico and I was ecstatic to meet a fellow bee enthusiast.  We were cyber-introduced through a beekeeping acquaintance in Ohio.

As fate ordained it, I had been asked to set up a pollinator exhibit for the New Mexico State University Alcalde Sustainable Agriculture Research Center’s Field Day. I knew I had to invite her to join me at the Field Day.  And so we shared a space; me with beekeeping info and a honey tasting bar on one side, and her with some native pollinators specimens and her new book,The Bees in Your Backyard, on the other.

She has since been awarded a grant to ID native pollinators at the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument site. I hope to be joining her on some of her pollinator ID trips this year! 

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