If You Build it, They Might Come, With Bee Taxonomist Molly Rightmyer At San Diego Horticultural Soc

The San Diego Horticultural Society sdhort.org - Join or renew membership sdhortnews.org - Let's Talk Plants! Newsletter General Meetings are from 1:30-3:30p on the 3rd Saturday of most months in Rancho Bernardo, CA Sharing Gardens events are for members-only and occur throughout the year all around San Diego County primarily on a weekend day. Sd Hort presents: If You Build it, They Might Come, With Molly Rightmyer Molly Rightmyer is a bee taxonomist who has become increasingly interested in native plants while attempting to increase the bee diversity of her home garden, an experience she wishes to share with other gardeners who hold similar aspirations. She got her start as a freelance scientific illustrator here in southern California. She then worked with fossil turtles as an apprentice illustrator at the American Museum of Natural History, NY, eventually landing a job as scientific assistant for Hymenoptera, working with Jerry Rozen and Jim Carpenter. Under Jerry’s kind tutelage her interest in bees was sparked; she then attended the University of Kansas to work with Charles Michener, obtaining her PhD on the systematics of the parasitic bee Triepeolus in 2006. Afterwards, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian studying parasitic bees in the genus Nomada, and at the USDA Wild Bee Lab in Logan, UT, working on the systematics of the mason bee genus Osmia. Since returning to San Diego, Molly has shifted her focus to education as she homeschools her two daughters. She is currently a Research Associate at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Learn more - California Native Bee Society https://calnbs.org/