Join OCCA on May 15th at 7pm for our Be Informed lecture series when we will hear from Dr. Jeffrey Heilveil about Native Pollinators.  For the May program we are partnering with the Farmers' Museum to help kick off the new "Buzz about Pollinators" exhibit. 

 From well-known bumblebees to leaf-cutter bees, hover flies, and hawk moths, there are hundreds of different pollinator species in Otsego County.  We'll look some of our native pollinators and the plants they pollinate, both common and rare, and talk about how we can best support these hard working species.

Dr. Jeffrey Heilveil is a Professor and Chair of the Biology Department at SUNY Oneonta, where he teaches courses in entomology, aquatic entomology, and stream ecology.  His favorite classes are the field-based courses he teaches in the summer on the Thayer Farm property of the SUNY Oneonta Biological Field Station.  His research primarily focuses on how human alterations to rivers affect stream insects.  He earned his MS and PhD in Entomology from the University of Illinois.