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Event Name:
What Bees Require Throughout the Year |
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Location:
Manor House & East Terrace |
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Event Date:
Saturday, 11/15/2025 |
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Event Time:
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM |
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Duration:
2 hours |
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Purchase Deadline:
Saturday, 11/15/2025 1:30 PM
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The Bees' Needs: What Bees Require Throughout the Year
How should one go about creating a bee-friendly garden? With at least 100 different species of bees present in Portland gardens, do we need to know exactly what each type needs before we can effectively create habitat for them? It turns out to be much simpler than that.
This talk will cover the fundamentals of the different types of bees, their life cycles, and how to ensure that your garden provides year-round habitat to support their needs. While many pollinator garden designs focus primarily on the flowers that bees and other pollinators use for food, bees cannot successfully reproduce unless they have safe places to nest and for their young to develop.
Learn strategies you can use to create a garden that gives bees everything they need to thrive.
Leach Talks 2025 is generously sponsored by Portland Nursery.
Speaker Bio: Susan Masta
Dr. Susan Masta is an associate professor of biology at Portland State University, where she teaches invertebrate zoology, evolution, and evolutionary medicine. She has studied bees in Portland as part of a broader research program that has included genetic, genomic, systematic, and biogeographic work on bees, pseudoscorpions, spiders, and amphibians. Susan is also an avid gardener; she and her husband tend a garden in Southwest Portland designed for native bees, other insects, birds, and wildlife. She has identified over 60 species of bees on their quarter-acre property.
