Bee Class Episode 162: Bees of Vermont with Spencer Hardy, Vermont Center for Ecostudies

These sessions are fluid and interactive Bee Identification workshops led by Sam Droege and Clare Maffei out of the Bee Lab. This is not a certified class. We will use mainly bees of the United States, predominately Eastern specimens, but the skills and jargon covered should apply abroad as well. During the workshop, we screen share what is under the microscope, but since we cannot simultaneously cast the microscope & the Discover Life screen or other relevant key, you will probably want to have your own copy up to follow along. Guest experts make frequent cameos, this week is Spencer Hardy, Vermont Center for Ecosystem Studies. Recorded on February 18, 2026. This week's session provides an overview of the diversity and natural history of Vermont bees based on a publication by Hardy and colleagues titled "An Annotated Checklist of the Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Vermont with Conservation Status and Natural History Notes" (Northeastern Naturalist, Volume 32, Monograph 27, 2025). This week's covered species: see video • Discover Life identification keys: https://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?s... • Google Drive of all the resources you might want (Start with "Welcome!" Outline of Folders", it will help). We have many published keys, but please send ones we may have missed. Very happy to include other resources as well (i.e. your own personal cheat sheets): https://drive.google.com/drive/u/4/fo... • Glossary of terms that describe bees; a guide for the non-taxonomist (Thank you David Cappaert!) https://leptinotarsa.github.io/glossa... • Handy Bee Manual: this has been updated significantly from the original 2015 version, and now it is more easily citable! This is a living resource and the most updated version will always live at this link and the DOI will remain stable. https://zenodo.org/records/12812755 • Handy Bee Manual YouTube: field training videos and more to come!    / @beeidresources   • Flickr! Free! Public domain macro pictures! https://flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/ Thumbnail Photo: presentation slide by Spencer Hardy • National Protocol Framework for the Inventory and Monitoring of Bees : You may have seen this circulated before, originally published in 2015. Version 2.0 has been updated with the most modern science and standards, including robust data guidance and training videos: https://iris.fws.gov/APPS/ServCat/Ref...