World Bee Day: Lecture and Exhibition

World Bee Day is May 20! Visit Geisel Library’s Seuss Room at noon for a lecture about the native bees of San Diego by Jess Mullins, a PhD student in the Ecology, Behavior and Evolution Department. Also presented during this World Bee Day program will be a live performance of Renaissance composer Charles Butler’s “Bee Madrigal” featuring singers Libby Weber, Helen Mout, Brad Fox and Scott Paulson. Of note, madrigal composer Butler (1571 –1647) was also an important beekeeper of the era.

Immediately following the bee lecture and madrigal performance, join our lecturer Jess Mullins, bee historian Joe Bray and exhibit curator Scott Paulson for a tour of the Library’s World Bee Day exhibit, just steps away in the lobby of Geisel Library at The Nest, where refreshments will be served and a D.I.Y. bookmark-making activity (on a bee theme) will be enjoyed.

This marks the Library’s 10th year of springtime bee outreach, inspired by the carefully prepared specimen cases gifted to the Library in 2014 by James Hung, when, as a campus PhD student, he oversaw several years of major field research in San Diego’s native bees.

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