Krystle Hickman in Conversation with Alie Ward

In collaboration with Vroman's Bookstore and HeyDay Books, Arlington Garden is excited to welcome back community scientist and conservationist Krystle Hickman for a conversation with Alie Ward of the Ologies podcast on the occasion of her debut book, The ABCs of California's Native Bees. The book is a journey through the world of California native bees, one letter at a time.  Krystle Hickman, a National Geographic Explorer, has spent a decade capturing exquisitely detailed photographs of native bees and making exciting discoveries about their behavior in the field. Her book offers an intimate look at the daily habits of rare and overlooked native bees in California: those cloaked in green or black or red, that live alone in the ground or sleep inside flowers, that invade nests and pillage resources like infinitesimal conquerors, or that, unlike more generalist honeybees, are devoted exclusively to the pollen of a single type of flower. A committed conservationist who knows all too well how precarious the wellbeing of these insects is, Hickman shares her adventures in local native plant gardens and throughout the far reaches of California to bring the beauty of such diverse ecosystems into wondrous bee's-eye view.

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