Cambridge Entomological Club meeting today!

[Amine Kousba]

Hi everyone! I'm so excited to see you all today, and to listen to Dr. Richard Primack's talk on pollinators at the Arboretum.

Date: Tuesday, December 9th @7:30 PM EST

Location: In Person in MCZ101A, or on Zoom

Title: Flower visitors to the plants of Newton and the Arnold Arboretum:  Can honeybees and native insects coexist?

Speaker: Dr. Richard Primack 

Summary: Non-native honeybees represent a potential threat to our native bees, butterflies and other insects.  For the past four years, BU Plant Ecology professor Dr. Richard Primack and his colleagues have been studying flower visitors at over 600 plant species at the Arnold Arboretum and in Newton to determine if honeybees and native pollinators can co-exist. 

Richard Primack has been a  Professor at Boston University since 1978 with interests in plant ecology, conservation biology, climate change and tropical ecology. He served as President of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation and was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biological Conservation. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Humboldt  Fellowship, and has been a visiting professor in Germany, Japan, China, Iceland and the Czech Republic. He wrote the first and most widely used conservation biology textbooks, Essentials of Conservation Biology and A Primer of Conservation Biology, which include 38 foreign language editions with local co-authors adding in examples from their countries. For the past 24 years, Professor Primack and his team have investigated the effects of a warming climate on the plants and birds of Massachusetts, continuing the observations made by the philosopher Henry David Thoreau and often using herbarium specimens and botanical gardens. Professor Primack has spread the word about the effects of climate change through public talks and popular writing, including the book Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods. 

NOTICE: We will be holding hybrid meetings to accommodate COVID-19 precautions and audience members from around the world. You can join our Zoom meeting by clicking here.

For those able to attend, we will have an informal dinner at 6:00 pm at Cambridge Common Restaurant with the speaker, followed by our formal meeting (7:30 - 9:00 pm) in room MCZ101A of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (there will be signs to help direct). The meeting will begin with club announcements, followed by a 60-minute presentation by the invited speaker and Q&A. Membership is open to amateur and professional entomologists - that means everyone!