AUBURN — Sam Whittaker, a Bates College senior biology major, will present findings from his research on bees to the Androscoggin Beekeepers Club at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10.
The meeting will be in the vestry building of the West Auburn Congregational Church, 811 West Auburn Road.
The meeting is open to the public, and is especially appropriate for anyone considering beekeeping and wanting to meet area beekeepers.
This past summer, Whittaker has studied bee populations in suburban and urban communities and private gardens in southern Maine. The intent is to look at the land use around all of the sites, such as green space, roads, impermeable surfaces, and see if they influence the genera of bee populations found there.
The research includes 20 different sites in cities such as Auburn, Lewiston and Portland, and in rural sites such as Minot. The research is supervised by Carla Essenberg, assistant professor of biology, whose research is in pollination ecology and plant animal interactions.
More information is available at http://androscogginbeekeepers.org/
Club meetings are normally the second Wednesday, September to May, with hive openings for training at members’ locations in the summer.
Sam Whittaker
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