Camille's Bee Story - July Meeting
Camille M. Rich is a STBCTMN member and the proud owner and steward of a small piece of endangered Tamaulipan thornscrub---El Mesteño Ranch---located in the South Texas Sand Sheet. Recently, her focus has been on the Native Bees. Documentation of their presence and the Bee – Plant Associations.
After tagging a long with a Native Bee Researcher for a couple of months, she realized she knew little about native bees and their needs from us. She plans to share what she learned and explain many misconceptions about native bees.
Here are the Books Camille mentions:
The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America's Bees
Plants of Deep South Texas - Ken King
Wildflowers of Texas - Michael Eason
A Photographic Guide to the Vegetation of the South Texas Sand Sheet
And the Website resources:
https://www.wildbeestexas.com/flowers-for-bees
https://xerces.org/xerces-bee-monitoring-tools
https://bugguide.net/node/view/8267
https://eastfoundation.net/media/47179/newsletter-may-2021.pdf
https://www.xerces.org/bring-back-the-pollinators
https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/wildlife_diversity/wildscapes/ecoregions/ecoregion_1.phtml
https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/wildlife_diversity/nongame/native-pollinators/
https://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/wildlife_diversity/wildscapes/ecoregions/
http://w3.biosci.utexas.edu/prc/DigFlora/WRC/Carr-SandSheet.html