PollinatorParadise.com
Title
Pollinator Paradise
Description
About Dr. Strickler
Dr. Strickler is the owner of Pollinator Paradise, a company that is dedicated to conserve, increase, and where possible to manage native bee populations for crop and wildflower pollination through research, education, and commercial management of native pollen bees. She was an assistant professor at the University of Idaho from 1993-2000, supervising their pollination ecology program.
At UI she studied the pollination of alfalfa for seed by the alfalfa leafcutting bee, Megachile rotundata. Prior to working at UI, she had 14 years experience studying solitary bees in Massachusetts, New York State, and Michigan, and 7 years experience studying pests of apple at Michigan State University. She maintains a web site about the blue orchard bee, Osmia lignaria, and other solitary bees. She sells Binderboard™ and other products for solitary bee management. She lives in Idaho, and spends part of the year visiting family property in Taos Canyon, her "basecamp" for the New Mexico Native Bee Pollinator Project.
A company dedicated to conserve, increase, and where possible to manage native bee populations for crop and wildflower pollination through research, education, and commercial management of native pollen bees.
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