The Androscoggin Beekeepers Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14, at the vestry of the West Auburn Congregational Church, 811 West Auburn Road in Auburn. Kalyn Bickerman-Martens will present “The Maine Bumble Bee Atlas: A Multi-Year Citizen Science Project to Survey Bumble Bee Species in Maine.” She is a Ph.D. candidate in ecology and environmental sciences at the University of Maine and her work focuses on the health of Maine’s bumble bees and wild blueberry pollination. She helps coordinate the Maine Bumble Bee Atlas, a citizen science project led by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to document the diversity, distribution and abundance of bumble bee species in Maine.
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