The Bees In Your Backyard

Sun, May 22, 2016 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM BEATY BIODIVERSITY CENTRE. Free. Urban beekeeping has grown in popularity, but honey bees are just one of the 4,000 different species in the United States and Canada. In The Bees in Your Backyard, called “the ultimate bee book,” author Joe Wilson articulately describes each of these bees. His talk (which will full of bee photos) will explore the importance of bees in our ecosystem, why beekeeping has become so popular, how to identify different types, and how to draw more bees to your backyards.