Functions/Events/Meetings
Alexandra Pearson
HHMI Tangled Bank Studios
Seattle, Washington
Samuel Ramsey
Endowed Professor of Entomology
BioFrontiers Institute and the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado
Martin Dohrn
Founder and Director
Ammonite Films
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
See bees like you’ve never seen them before in the new PBS Nature documentary, My Garden of Thousand Bees.
Locked down during the coronavirus pandemic, My Garden of a Thousand Bees follows acclaimed wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn as he sets out to record all the bee species in his tiny urban garden in Bristol, England. Filming with one-of-a-kind lenses he forged at his kitchen table, he catalogs more than 60 different species, from Britain’s largest bumblebees to scissor bees the size of a mosquito. Over long months, Dohrn observes how differences in behavior set different species apart. He eventually gets so close to the bees he can identify individuals by sight, documenting life at their level as we have never seen it before.