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DURHAM, N.H. 鈥� New England bee enthusiasts will head to Ossipee in mass for the organized by the 麻豆app Bee Lab. The event takes place at the Ossipee Pine Barrens June 23-25, 2017, and is free and open to the public.

The Bee Bioblitz is organized by , assistant professor of biological sciences and researcher with the . Rehan鈥檚 research is assessing the Granite State鈥檚 bee species. Now in its fourth year, the Bee Bioblitz has provided critical information that has allowed Rehan and her lab to be the as well as .

鈥淭he White Mountain National Forest event was well attended, with more than 30 participants from five states, and we discovered 72 additional species to add to our state bee list,鈥� Rehan said.

According to the , the Ossipee Pine Barrens were shaped more than 10,000 years ago when retreating ice age glaciers left behind a broad, deep sandy outwash plain. Too dry and nutrient poor to support agriculture or many of the more typical forests of northern New England, areas with these sandy-gravelly soil types became known as 鈥渂arrens.鈥� The pine barrens ecosystem of Ossipee, Madison, Freedom, and Tamworth is the last relatively large and intact example in New Hampshire.听This unique habitat supports a diversity of uncommon wildlife, including nearly two dozen threatened and endangered moths and butterflies 鈥� some found nowhere else in New Hampshire. These insects use pitch pine and scrub oak, and understory plants like sweet fern and low-bush blueberry for food and as a place to lay their eggs.听The pine barrens also provide very important breeding habitat for several declining bird species like whip-poor-wills, common nighthawk, and the Eastern towhee.

The goals of the Bee Bioblitz are to document the diversity of bee species in the state, with a particular focus on native bees; connect bee researchers across New England; and demonstrate bee surveys and research techniques to interested members of the public听and students.听

Bees are important pollinators of food crops and natural ecosystems. The value of pollination to agriculture is estimated at more than $200 billion a year worldwide. The abundance of and diversity of pollinators are declining in many agricultural landscapes across the United States.

The home base for the event will be the . Permits are required for collecting so attendees should contact Rehan if they are interested in participating. While the event is free, there are fees associated with lodging and meals. For information on fees, visit . Those interested in attending or needing additional information should contact听Sandra Rehan at sandra.rehan@unh.edu.

This material is based upon work supported by the NH Agricultural Experiment Station, through joint funding of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under award number 1004515, and the state of New Hampshire.

Founded in 1887, the at the is UNH鈥檚 original research center and an elemental component of New Hampshire's land-grant university heritage and mission.

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