Seeing the Forest for the Bees with Kass Urban-Mead

“Seeing the forest for the bees:” Habitat elements for native bees in northeastern trees & forests 

In the historically forested northeastern US, up to 2/3 of our wild bee species use forested habitats for part of their life cycles. Join me for an adventure exploring how wild bees use the woods–from the leafy forest floor to deadwood to the “meadow in the sky” at the tippy top of the canopy! I will connect these to applied suggestions, and introduce “focal bees” whose life cycles rely on different characteristic elements of a healthy forest. 

Kass’s doctoral work in the Cornell Entomology Department characterized pollen usage by wild bees active in early spring forests and forest canopies, and how the movement of bees between forests and orchards can support apple orchard pollination. At the Xerces Society, Kass is a Pollinator Conservation Biologist working to research, communicate, and provide trainings for land managers on the life cycles of forest bees — and the crucial but often-overlooked connections between pollinator conservation and forest health and ecological forest stewardship. 

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