Attracting More Bees and Pollinators to our Gardens

SPEAKER: MICHAEL VIET
Michael Viet is a Pepperell native and former local biology teacher. He travels MA and other new England states surveying bee populations and documenting bee diversity He is the lead author of “A Checklist of Bees in Massachusetts” which documents 400 species of bees. He also nominated 5 native bees for the Massachusetts list of Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species. He recently was portrayed in a Smithsonian podcast series entitled ” The Swarm of people Intent On Saving Our Bees” and a Smithsonian Magazine article discussing the team of bee lovers doing everything to save rare native species.