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Hi, my name is Sam Droege  and

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welcome to the Native Bee Lab

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So our lab here is a support lab.

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So we don't do primary research.

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We're not investigating the causes
for declines in bees.

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But what we are doing is we're developing
survey techniques.

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We're doing identification guides,

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we're working on the identification
of bees for outside groups.

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We look at the relationship
between specific bees and specific plants

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here in the lab grounds,
and we advise and consult with

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actually hundreds of different bee

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biologists from around the world.

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And we spend a lot of time
working out the details

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of how to track and monitor bees.

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Yeah, I think the impact of our work
is largely resolves around

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the fact that there are very few places
that work on the fundamentals.

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So for example, the question of how do you
monitor bees, how do you catch them?

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What's the best statistical techniques
to use for tracking changes in bees?

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That's something that we do well.

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We also are one of the
it turns out these days,

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one of the few places that work
specifically on

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the identification of bees has there's
4000 species of bees in North America.

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It turns out it's incredibly difficult

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to and about 10% have no names.

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So it turns out that figuring out
what you've caught is

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the greater problem than simply
how do I catch them?

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It's relatively easy to use these traps,
but it's relatively difficult to then

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go from a trap specimen
to a valid ID on it.

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That's where our skill set is.

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So we've worked with lots of people.

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We fill up manuals and we're constantly
in contact with people.

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And several of the people in the lab
today are visitors who are here

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to get help
on the identification of their specimens.

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So we
we actually generate quite a bit of data.

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So we have a database
of 650,000 specimens, for example,

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that are just the specimens
that we've collected in our collaborators

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sometimes use our databases to well,
we're working in every single state

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in the union
and all the Canadian provinces,

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and we have people who
talk with us around the world

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using our data, but also

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using the information we produce on
how to count and collect bees.

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We also maintain an A listserv,
a discussion group on bee monitoring

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and technical parts of the identification
that has

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a thousand researchers involved.

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So we every every day
I've got someone emailing

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about how to help and survey
and count bees in one way or another.

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So we're really an important technical
support group, and there's no one else

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in the nation that does that kind of work,

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So we're very popular right now.