Distinctive Voices — Exciting times for US bee conservation – NAS

Distinctive Voices: Exciting Times for US Bee Conservation

The US is on the cusp of dramatically transforming how we conserve bees and other insects, which have been historically excluded from many major conservation efforts.

This presentation will share some of the exciting new directions for US bee conservation, the impact these projects will have on our imperiled bee populations.

About the Speaker

Associate Professor, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside Dr. Woodard is an Associate Professor of Entomology at the University of California, Riverside and PI of the US National Native Bee Monitoring Research Coordination Network.

She received a PhD in Biology in 2012 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she worked with Dr. Gene Robinson on the molecular basis of social evolution in bees.

From 2013-2015 she was a USDA-NIFA Postdoctoral Fellow working on the nutritional ecology of bumble bees with Dr. Shalene Jha at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Author summary: US bee conservation is transforming.

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National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Sciences — 2025-10-13

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