Want to learn how to identify native bees? Sign up for our five-day Natural History of Native Bees Course! Improve your field and microscope identification skills, hone your observation skills, and network with other pollinator enthusiasts.

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We (Nick and Max) are happy to announce the return of our week-long seminar on bee ID at Eagle Hill Institute in Steuben, Maine. The course will run from Sunday June 21rd to Saturday June 27th, 2026. We will be joined again by our amazing TAs Kyle Rossner and Dr. Rachael Bonoan.

We structure our course around field identification of wild bees, with a focus on bumble bees, and linking our identifications back to characters on pinned specimens. Throughout the week, we will learn skills such as field identification to genus, voucher specimen collection, nest searching, photography, and journaling. Afternoon lab work will reinforce identification through microscopy.

This seminar will be of interest to academic students, citizen scientists, naturalists, landscape designers, and managers of public and private lands, among others. We are particularly interested in bringing early-career students to this course, and there are tuition and lodging discounts available for student attendees. 

Registration details: https://www.eaglehill.us/programs/sems-weeklong/calendar-weeklong.shtml.