Nature Moncton April Meeting

Mapleton Park Rotary Lodge

April Monthly Meeting Presentation

“Wild Bees in New Brunswick”

April 15, 2025, 7:00 PM

Mapleton Rotary Lodge

Presenter: Emily Austen

Did you know that New Brunswick is home to over 250 species of wild bees? 

Wild bees perform essential pollination services, facilitating the reproduction of wild plants and several regionally important crops, including blueberry, apple, and cranberry. However, wild pollinators in general and bees in particular are threatened by land use change, climate change, insecticide exposure, pathogen spillover from managed bees, and more. A further challenge is scarcity of data on species distributions.