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Paige Embry

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My multi-year immersion into the lives of America’s native bees began with a gardening epiphany—European-import honey bees can’t pollinate tomatoes, but a variety of native bees can. This realization led to an obsession with native bees that cascaded into taking classes, wading through the scientific literature, raising bees, participating in bee science, modifying my garden, and trekking into fields and onto farms with bee experts to learn who America’s bees really are, and how they are faring. It also led to a book.

I've spent my adult life involved in science and nature. I tend to latch onto something and love it hard for a long time. I fell in love with geology in the very first geology class I took at Duke. Afterwards, I headed out to M ...more

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Paige Embry I have absolutely loved getting the chance to go out and talk to experts about their work.
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Paige Embry About five years ago I was hunting around the internet for something gardening-related to potentially write an article on and ran across a local nonpr…moreAbout five years ago I was hunting around the internet for something gardening-related to potentially write an article on and ran across a local nonprofit called the Urban Pollination Project. They were doing a citizen science project to find out if there were enough native bees in Seattle to fully pollinate people's edible gardens. Since they were interested in only native bees they needed a way to exclude honey bees (which came over from Europe with the early colonists) and so they chose to look at tomatoes because HONEY BEES CAN'T POLLINATE TOMATOES. I was totally flabbergasted that I hadn't known that last bit and set out to learn more about all the other bees and fell in love.(less)

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Our Native Bees: North America’s Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them

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“The more I learned about pollinators, the more interested I became in the Queen of pollination: the 20,000 species of bees worldwide that are largely responsible for the seeds of rebirth of three-quarters of the flowering plants in the world. I discovered that assuming, as most people do, that "bee" equals "stinging honey bee" was even more ludicrous than assuming "dog" equals itty bitty Chihuahua.”
― Paige Embry, Our Native Bees: North America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them

tags: bees, flowering-plants, pollinators

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