I first encountered James Hung on his Tumblr blog, San Diego Native Bees. I learned about the native bees that frequented my garden and the important role they play in plant pollination.

Dr. Hung studied native bee diversity and conservation in San Diego's endangered coastal sage scrub ecosystem for his PhD thesis at UC San Diego. As a pollination ecologist, he is currently finishing a second postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto.

The San Diego Natural History Museum (the NAT) arranged for this video presentation last year, Fantastic Bees and How to Save Them.

If you don’t have time for the video now (47 minutes) there’s a 5 minute read at the UC San Diego News Center Lord of the Bees as an intro to his work and San Diego native bees.