Tuesday, September 10, 2013
1:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Bee day at Harvard
1 Oxford Street, Harvard University
Photo: Gary Alpert
We will start our schedule this year with this special event about honeybees. The bee day is going to be a day of events and activities highlighting the importance of honeybees and beekeeping to biodiversity, the food supply, and human health. Learn more about the alarming decline of beehives (colony collapse disorder) widely documented in the U.S. and Europe. All activities and events are free and open to the public. They are located at the Plaza or the Science Center, 1 Oxford Street.
Event Schedule
1:00–2:00 pm: The Plaza (in front of the Science Center)
Enjoy organic honey tasting at the Harvard Farmers’ Market.
4:00 pm:
Take a tour of the beehives on Harvard’s campus, led by Harvard Undergraduate Beekeepers. Preregistration required. To register, please send your information to lectures@hmsc.harvard.edu or call 617-495-2773.
7:00 pm: Science Center, Hall C
Film screening of More Than Honey, followed by a discussion with Dr. Alex Lu, Associate Professor of Environmental Exposure Biology, Harvard School of Public Health, about current research on the link between colony collapse disorder and the use of agricultural pesticides.
Jointly sponsored by the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard Undergraduate Beekeepers, the Harvard Farmers’ Market, the Food Literacy Project, and the Cambridge Entomological Club.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
7:30 PM
Reviving the Endangered Art of Faunistics: Revising the Ants of North America
MCZ 101, 26 Oxford Street, Harvard University
Stefan Cover, Harvard University
Many disciplines claim to be foundational to the rest of biology: systematics and genetics are two obvious examples. A good case can be made, however, that faunistics (the study of faunas), and its botanical equivalent (floristics), are basal to all other biological disciplines. Unfortunately, faunistics is a dying art. Good faunistic studies are uncommon and training in the field is not available. Faunistics combines alpha-taxonomy, biogeography, life-history studies, and natural history to produce a comprehensive, practical, useful portrait of a fauna. Come and see how these various elements are being used to assemble a new, more comprehensive monograph of the ants of North America.
The talk is free and open to the public. The meeting is readily accessible via public transportation. Parking is available in the Oxford Street Garage with advance arrangement, as described here, or (usually but not always) at spaces on nearby streets. Everyone is also welcome to join us for dinner before the talk (beginning at 6 PM) at the Cambridge Common restaurant.
CEC meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month from October through May. The evening schedule typically includes an informal dinner (6:15 to 7:15 PM) followed by our formal meeting (7:30 – 9:00 PM). The latter begins with club business and is followed by a 50 minute entomology related presentation. Membership is open to amateur and professional entomologists
