File: Great Southeast Pollinator Course — Week 4, Small Bees
Date Corrected: July 8, 2026
Webinar Date: July 7, 2026
Series: Great Southeast Pollinator Course
Topic: Entomology / Pollinator conservation (native small bees)
Speakers: Amanda Bratcher (Horticulture Agent, NC Cooperative Extension — Lee County; NC State Coordinator, Great Southeast Pollinator Census); Dr. Kris Braman (Professor Emerita of Entomology, University of Georgia)
Moderator: Becky Griffin (UGA Extension — course host)
SOURCE VERIFICATION
- Original blocks: 259
- Corrected blocks: 259 ✓ MATCH CONFIRMED
- Time range: 00:00:04,759 to 01:12:05,380
- Runtime: ~72 minutes
- File reading: COMPLETE ✓ (all 259 blocks / 1,036 lines viewed)
- Coverage proof:
- Early [~03:02]: Amanda introduces herself as the NC Cooperative Extension horticulture agent and frames the census “small bees” box, citing the January Washington Post article “we saved the bees… the wrong ones.”
- Middle [~39:03]: Kris reports the 50-residential-property pan-trap study — ~5,000 bees, 111 species, ~20% of Georgia’s ~540 bee species.
- Late [~1:08:37]: Amanda answers the stem-cutting question — trim to 18–24 inches; shorter stems bias toward male-only eggs; keep cut stems attached and off the ground.
Corrections Applied
Method: Corrections were applied by string replacement from the raw SRT so timestamp and sequence-number lines could not drift, then diffed against the raw file. Result: 76 individual string replacements across text lines only; all 259 index lines and all timestamp lines byte-identical to the original.
Proper Nouns — Speaker Names
- “Dr. Chris Bremen” → “Dr. Kris Braman” (Line 515, Becky’s introduction)
- “Dr. Brayman” → “Dr. Braman” (Lines 531, 923)
- “Chris” → “Kris” (presenter references: Lines 135, 259, 379, 387, 403, 531, 1027)
- “Manda gave” → “Amanda gave” (Line 563 — dropped initial vowel)
Other People Named
- “Sam Droge” → “Sam Droege” (USGS Bee Lab, Maryland) (Line 111)
- “Elsa Youngstead” → “Elsa Youngsteadt”; “Hannah Levinson” → “Hannah Levenson” (NC State bee researchers, Bees of North Carolina authors) (Lines 147, 487)
- “Keith Dalaplane” → “Keith Delaplane” (UGA honey bee researcher) (Line 727)
- “She Met Joseph” → “Shimat Joseph” (UGA turfgrass entomologist; on GTBOP roster) (Line 843)
Institutions, Programs & Places
- “the Because” → “The Bee Cause” (bee-education partner) (Line 3)
- “Great Southeast Planeer Census” → “Great Southeast Pollinator Census” (Line 59)
- “conducted in Griffith” → “conducted in Griffin” (UGA Griffin campus) (Line 875)
Bee Family Names (Hymenoptera: Anthophila)
- “Megachylidae” / “megakylidae” / “megachylidae” → “Megachilidae” (Lines 139, 219, 227)
- “Helictidae” / “helictidae” → “Halictidae” (Lines 139, 143, 255)
- “Coletidae” → “Colletidae” (Line 139)
- “apid eye” → “Apidae” (Lines 171, 215)
- “the Perdidae, the fairy bees” → “the Perdita, the fairy bees” (fairy bees = genus Perdita, within Andrenidae) (Line 235)
Genera & Species
- “Alassia glossum” / “lasia glossum” / “Lasia glossum” / “Lazy a Glossom” → “Lasioglossum” (Lines 251, 811, 819, 827)
- “agapo stemmin” / “agape stemmin” / “Agostini” / “Agobacapostemmon” → “Agapostemon” (Lines 247, 251, 415)
- “helictus” / “Helictus” → “Halictus”; “Helictus legatus” → “Halictus ligatus”; “helictids” → “halictids” (Lines 811, 815, 831)
- “hylias” → “Hylaeus” (yellow-faced bees) (Lines 267, 283)
- “nomata” → “Nomada” (Line 215)
- “these Andrina” → “these Andrena”; “Andrenids and Dreena” → “andrenids, Andrena”; “Andrina Viola” → “Andrena violae” (Lines 671, 683, 851)
- “Megachylees sculpturalis” → “Megachile sculpturalis” (giant resin bee) (Line 751)
- “Osmiotaurus” / “Osmeotaurus” → “Osmia taurus” (exotic mason bee) (Lines 751, 951)
- “Pipponapsus prunosa” → “Peponapis pruinosa” (squash bee; now Eucera) (Line 855)
- “melatobia” → “Melittobia” (parasitic wasp genus) (Line 743)
- “and bombus were” → “and Bombus were” (genus capitalization) (Line 811)
Common Names & Other Insects
- “canopid fly” → “conopid fly” (Conopidae; bumblebee parasitoid) (Line 331)
- “giant resident bee” → “giant resin bee”; “giant Resinbee” → “giant resin bee” (Lines 751, 955)
Morphology & Method Terms
- “haltears” → “halteres” (Line 335)
- “turgates” → “tergites” (Line 187)
- “Weeing venation” / “weeing venation” → “Wing venation” / “wing venation” (Line 175)
- “short-tonned bees” → “short-tongued bees” (Line 239)
- “vein traps” → “vane traps” (blue vane traps) (Line 631)
- “beet sampling” → “bee sampling”; “beet flower sampling” → “bee-flower sampling” (Line 807) — see flag
- “the hosties” → “the hosts” (Line 699)
Plants & Cultivars
- “giant blue agastash” → “giant blue agastache” (Agastache) (Line 895)
- “hot paprika” → “‘Hot Paprika’” (salvia cultivar) (Line 879)
Grammar / Readability
- “nectarine pollen” → “nectar and pollen” (Line 459)
- “feel their love making” → “fuel their lovemaking” (Line 171)
- Line 79 (block 20, a 0.13-second segment): collapsed a pure ASR stutter (“And I was reminded,” repeated eight times) to a single “And I was reminded.” No content added.
Flagged for Verification
- Block 57 (Line 227): “It looks a lot like a gulidae.” — garbled ASR; term unclear (context: a leafcutter that mimics a carpenter bee). Left as heard.
- Block 63 (Line 251): second Agapostemon (raw “Agobacapostemmon”) — likely a specific species such as the bicolored Agapostemon; genus corrected, species not asserted.
- Block 213 (Line 851): “Andrena violae” — genus confident (violet specialist); species epithet inferred from Kris’s “violets” reference. Confirm epithet.
- Block 204/215 (Lines 815, 855): “Halictus ligatus” and “Peponapis pruinosa” spellings inferred from context; both are valid taxa but confirm against slides.
- Block 202 (Line 807): “bee sampling” / “bee-flower sampling” — raw “beet”; could be “beat sampling” (a distinct beating-sheet method). Confirm which Kris said.
- Names to confirm against slides/registration: Bill Rodstrom (iNaturalist observer, Block 60 / Line 239); Miriam Lyon (grad student, Blocks 178 & 187 / Lines 711, 747); Bethany Arrear (Alabama Census State Coordinator, Block 259 / Line 1035); “Museum of Life” graphic source (Block 35 / Line 139).
SRT Format Compliance
✅ All timestamps preserved exactly as original (diff confirmed byte-identical)
✅ All sequence numbers maintained (259 index lines identical)
✅ Blank lines between segments preserved
✅ Maximum 2 lines per subtitle segment maintained
✅ No segments merged or split
✅ Block count: 259 original = 259 corrected ✓
✅ Line count: 1,036 original = 1,036 corrected ✓
Total Corrections: 76 individual string replacements
Processing: Complete file (259 subtitle blocks, 1,036 lines)
New Whisper Patterns for the Course Reference
Worth adding to the README’s Pollinator / Native-Bee Correction Patterns table:
| Whisper Output | Correct Form |
|---|---|
| Alassia glossum / lasia glossum / Lazy a Glossom | Lasioglossum |
| agapo stemmin / agape stemmin / Agostini | Agapostemon |
| Helictidae / helictus | Halictidae / Halictus |
| Coletidae | Colletidae |
| Megachylidae / megakylidae | Megachilidae |
| apid eye | Apidae |
| hylias | Hylaeus |
| nomata | Nomada |
| Andrina / Dreena | Andrena |
| Osmiotaurus / Osmeotaurus | Osmia taurus |
| Megachylees sculpturalis | Megachile sculpturalis |
| Pipponapsus prunosa | Peponapis pruinosa |
| melatobia | Melittobia |
| canopid fly | conopid fly |
| haltears | halteres |
| turgates | tergites |
| short-tonned | short-tongued |
| vein traps | vane traps |
| giant resident bee / Resinbee | giant resin bee |
New People for the Course Roster
- Amanda Bratcher — Horticulture Agent, NC Cooperative Extension (Lee County Center), Sanford, NC; NC State Coordinator, Great Southeast Pollinator Census. Master’s from Scotland; 3 years with NC State, 10+ years in botanical gardens prior. (confirmed Week 4 — Small Bees)
- Dr. Kris Braman — Professor Emerita of Entomology, University of Georgia (began at UGA 1989; Entomology Department Head June 2016–May 2025; TEDx Atlanta 2023; honorary member, Entomological Society of America). (confirmed Week 4 — Small Bees)
- Sam Droege — USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, Maryland (cited, not present)
- Elsa Youngsteadt & Hannah Levenson — NC State entomologists, authors of Bees of North Carolina Identification Guide (UNC Press) (cited)
Correction summary produced for UGA Center for Urban Agriculture / Great Southeast Pollinator Course Archives
Source: Raw SRT — “Macwhisper - Great Southeast Pollinator Course - Week Four - Small Bees.srt” (259 blocks)