Gardener Perceptions of Native Pollinator Plants

Native plantings are used in urban areas to improve pollinator habitat. To achieve wide adoption, these plant choices must be attractive to home gardeners as well as to pollinators. We distributed two surveys to identify native Willamette Valley pollinator plants that are aesthetically pleasing to home gardeners. The first survey sought to ascertain baseline attractiveness, and asked gardeners to rank the attractiveness of 23 wildflowers on a 1-5 Likert scale. In second survey, we were interested in how sharing information on the benefits of these plants impacts perceived attractiveness. We asked gardeners to rate the attractiveness of a subset of 11 of these 23 wildflowers both before, and after, being shared information on each flower’s attractiveness to bees. Both surveys also included space for open-ended comments. We found a high level of acceptance of native wildflowers by gardeners (over half had mean attractiveness scores of 4.0 or above), and gardeners found native plants significantly more attractive after learning about the bees that visit each plant. Gardeners who identified as “native plant gardeners” found all of the study plants significantly more attractive than non-“native plant gardeners”. In the open-ended comments, gardeners stated that they were most negatively concerned with the aesthetics and aggressive growth of flowers. Gardeners felt positively about flower aesthetics and beneficial ecological traits (e.g. pollinator attractiveness, drought tolerance). We identify five species of native wildflowers that Pacific Northwest nurseries might consider marketing as pollinator plants (Gilia capitata, Clarkia amoena, Eschscholzia californica, Madia elegans, and Sidalcea asprella ssp. virgata)

Bee Abundance and Richness in Portland-area Home Gardens

Research has demonstrated that urban gardens support diverse, abundant, and intact bee communities in New York, California. Ohio, and the United Kingdom. In fact, the abundance and diversity of bees visiting urban gardens has been observed to approach, and even exceed, numbers in nearby natural and/or agricultural systems. To date, no comprehensive study has yet to be conducted of Oregon’s garden bees. We thus sampled 24 residential gardens in the Portland Metropolitan region, to document the abundance and richness of Portland’s garden bees. We used a combination of pan trapping and hand collection to sample bees. Study sites varied in their composition (i.e. pollinator garden, perennial plant garden, edible garden, lawn-dominated garden, etc.), and were located in one of three landscape contexts: (1) Urban Core: gardens located within Portland, in highly populated neighborhoods, (2) Forest Edge: gardens located within Portland, located adjacent to Forest Park, and (3) Portland Suburbs: gardens located outside of Portland, in a peri-urban landscape. This presentation will review the diversity of bees that we have collected and identified, and explore the ecological characteristics of Portland’s garden bees

Garden bees of Portland

Gardens are known to contain a diverse and abundant community of bees, which suggests the value of gardens for bee conservation. To date, we do not have a species-level bee list for Oregon gardens. We thus sampled 24 Portland Metro area gardens for bees, in the summer of 2017-2018. Thus far, the 2017 bees have been identified to species. The 2018 samples are still being curated in the lab. The ecological characteristics of each bee species will be determined from an array of natural history resources, and the area of each garden allocated to turf/hardscape/flower beds has been estimated, to glean insights about the quality of habitat offered by Portland area gardens. We will sample gardens once more in 2019, and will perform more detailed analyses of within-garden and landscape level characteristics

Garden Bees of Portland

Gardens can provide forage and habitat to a diverse and abundant assemblage of garden bees. Although the garden bee assemblage has been described in several U.S. cities, a comprehensive accounting of Portland area garden bees has yet to be published. Each summer, from 2017-2019, we collected garden bees from 25 Portland area gardens using a combination of pan traps and hand-collection. With our 2017 and 2018 bees identified, we have collected 65 species or morphospecies. In this poster, we consider the ecological characteristics of these garden bees in the context of the resources that gardens may or may not provision for various native bee species

Dermatomyositis associated with nivolumab therapy for melanoma: a case report and review of the literature

We present a rare case of dermatomyositis associated with nivolumab therapy for melanoma. Nivolumab is an immune checkpoint inhibitor that blocks the programmed death-1 (PD1) receptor and has a number of associated immunotherapy related adverse events. Although most are T-cell mediated, some are antibody mediated mimics of classical autoimmune diseases. We review the characteristics of other cases of anti-PD1 associated dermatomyositis and the recent literature to better understand how to classify and treat this challenging immunotherapy related adverse event

Dermatomyositis associated with nivolumab therapy for melanoma: a case report and review of the literature

We present a rare case of dermatomyositis associated with nivolumab therapy for melanoma. Nivolumab is an immune checkpoint inhibitor that blocks the programmed death-1 (PD1) receptor and has a number of associated immunotherapy related adverse events. Although most are T-cell mediated, some are antibody mediated mimics of classical autoimmune diseases. We review the characteristics of other cases of anti-PD1 associated dermatomyositis and the recent literature to better understand how to classify and treat this challenging immunotherapy related adverse event

Garden Pollinators and the Potential for Ecosystem Service Flow to Urban and Peri-Urban Agriculture

Hedgerows, flowering strips, and natural areas that are adjacent to agricultural land have been shown to benefit crop production, via the provision of insect pollinators that pollinate crops. However, we do not yet know the extent to which bee habitat in the form of urban gardens might contribute to pollination services in surrounding crops. We explored whether gardens might provision pollinators to adjacent agricultural areas by sampling bees from gardens in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, and estimating typical foraging distances in the context of commercial- and residential-scale pollination-dependent crops up to 1000 m from garden study sites. We estimate that garden bees could forage outside of the garden in which they were collected, and that when pollination-dependent crops (commercial-scale or residential-scale) are nearby, 30–50% of the garden bee community could potentially provide pollination services to adjacent crops, if urban bees readily cross boundaries and forage among habitat types. Urban gardens might thus be well-positioned to provision neighboring farms and food gardens with pollination services, or could serve as a refuge for pollinators when forage is scarce or crop management practices are inhospitable. The actual capacity of gardens to serve as a refuge for pollinators from agricultural fields depends upon the extent to which bees forage across habitat types. However, relatively little is known about the degree to which bees move among habitat patches in heterogeneous landscapes. We thus propose a research agenda that can document the extent to which gardens contribute to pollinator health and pollination services at the interface of urban, peri-urban, and rural landscapes. In particular, more data is needed on how landscape context impedes or promotes garden bee movement between habitat types

Portland bee guide

This guide is designed as a public tool, and an accompaniment to the online iNaturalist guide Summer Garden Bees of Portland. You can use this link to access it: https://beav.es/Tdj. The 67 bee species included in this guide were found in a three-year study of garden bee communities active during the summer months of 2017 - 2019, in the Portland Oregon metropolitan region (see “Background of the data supporting this guide” for more information on study methods). These 67 bee species belong to 19 genera and five families. This guide is not designed to be an identification guide. Identifying bees is notoriously difficult, particularly for smaller-bodied bees like Lasioglossum species. While it is certainly possible to learn to identify some of these bees to the species level, this guide does not contain the detail necessary for species identification. The level of detail included in this guide is suitable for anyone with an interest in bees, including those with limited or no knowledge of bee biology, ecology, or taxonomy. The intention of this guide is to help the public familiarize themselves with garden bees in the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area, and to recognize the potential diversity in size, color, and life history traits of these bees. If bee taxonomy and identification something you are interested in learning about, you may consider the Master Melittologist Program at Oregon State University (OSU). This community science program contains a curriculum designed for anyone to gain expertise in bee family and genus-level identifications, so that they can help document the bees of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. More information about this program, and other resources, are listed towards the end of this document, in the section titled “Additional Bee Identification/Taxonomy Resources”. We hope that this guide can make the world of garden bees accessible to anyone and everyone who is interested. Wondering what genus that super big, fuzzy bee you just saw was? What was that bright metallic green bee you saw on a sunflower earlier? Was that a bee, or a wasp? We’ll cover those questions, and more, in the iNaturalist guide and this document

Interstitial granulomatous dermatitis and concurrent immunotherapy associated encephalitis with nivolumab and ipilimumab

Immune-related adverse events (irAEs) are common in patients receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors for metastatic melanoma and other advanced malignancies. Cutaneous, gastrointestinal, and endocrine (thyroid) irAEs are most prevalent, whereas neurologic irAEs are rare. We present a 73-year-old man with dementia and metastatic melanoma who developed immunotherapy-associated encephalitis and subsequently, interstitial granulomatous dermatitis with nivolumab/ipilimumab. High-dose corticosteroids successfully treated both conditions, though he never regained his baseline mental status. We review the literature on interstitial granulomatous dermatitis and encephalitis with immunotherapy

Attitude towards adherence in patients with schizophrenia at discharge

Background: Purpose of the present study was to assess the attitude towards adherence at discharge and to verify its predictability using anamnestic and sociodemographic variables. factors influencing clinical treatment as well as the medical treatment applied. Methods: Attitude towards adherence was evaluated in 369 inpatients with schizophrenic spectrum disorders within a naturalistic multicenter trial using the Compliance Rating Scale (CRS) by Kemp. Biweekly ratings of the PANSS, UKU and the Subjective Well-being under Neuroleptic Treatment Scale (SWN-K) were applied. Logistic regression and CART analyses were used to determine significant predictor variables for the attitude towards adherence at discharge. Results: Sixty-seven percent of the patients were rated to have an attitude of active participation and moderate participation (=positive attitude towards adherence) and 33% of the patients to have an attitude of passive acceptance, occasional or permanent reluctance towards treatment as well as refusing treatment (=negative attitude towards adherence). A significant correlation was found between patients with a positive attitude towards adherence and course of all PANSS subscales. Statistical analyses revealed a reduction in PANSS general psychopathology subscore, employment status, greater illness insight and treatment with atypical antipsychotics to be significantly predictive for a positive attitude towards adherence at discharge. Conclusions: The importance of an adequate antipsychotic treatment as a precondition for a favourable adherence attitude and the need to incorporate adherence-focused psychotherapy and psychoeducation into daily clinical practice are highlighted. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.German Federal Ministry for Education and Research BMBF [01 GI 0233