Brian Dykstra is a botanist and ecologist. Bees, pollination biology, botany and ethnobiology are his interests. He completed his M.S. thesis on pollination ecology, and he earned a certificate in community college education (Humboldt State University). He has taught community college and managed an academic greenhouse for a large university. He has worked in pollination research and outreach, agricultural extension research, field botany, science editing, and served as education/outreach chair for a native plant society, farming, and much more.
Brian has been working for more than a decade on a book related to all-things "bee." He is happy to share some of his progress occasionally in a visual storytelling format for OLLI at Cal Poly Humboldt.
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