CATCH THE BUZZ – Hive Size Matters, It Seems
University of Idaho professor Brian Dennis is helping scientists understand a baffling but vitally important puzzle: What is causing the decline of honey bees?…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Ron Carleton, EPA on Agriculture
By Laurie Greene, Editor, California AGTODAY Editor’s note: In an exclusive interview with Ron Carleton, EPA Counselor to the Administrator for Agricultural Policy, we asked how the…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Good Almond Pollination Needs Good Weather, Lots of Bees, and Luck
What Almond Growers Want this Year: Rain and Bees Almond Prices are Down Amid El Nino-Related Cold, Rain Heesun Wee CNBC Just when almond…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Queen Loss Causes Being Identified.
By Kim Kaplan Temperature extremes during shipping and elevated pathogen levels may be contributing to honey bee queens failing faster today than in the…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Preliminary Imidacloprid Pollinator Risk Assessment Technical Briefing – Webinar Slated for February 18
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold an online technical briefing on its preliminary pollinator risk assessment for imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid insecticide, on…
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CATCH THE BUZZ -Welcome Rains May Be a Challenge to Almond Blossoms
From Ag-New West.com Storms that have been rolling in off the Pacific, helping to fill reservoirs and recharge groundwater, may be a challenge for…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Where Have All the Flowers Gone: Complexity & Worldwide Bee Declines
Nicole Miller-Struttmann Assistant Professor of Biology at SUNY – Old Westbury Posted January 11, 2016 by Alexandra (Sasha) Wright in Climate Change, Ecology, Guest…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bayer Revises Position to Propose Extra Protections for Bees from Pesticides
The pharmaceutical giant had initially accused the EPA of overstimating the impact of pesticide on pollinators but now admits report is ‘scientifically sound’ Oliver…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – EPA Releases the First of Four Preliminary Risk Assessments for Insecticides Potentially Harmful to Bees
First-of-its-kind assessment delivers on President Obama’s National Pollinator Strategy WASHINGTON– The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a preliminary pollinator risk assessment for the…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – A License to Kill – Rodents?
Alan Harman Move over James Bond – British farmers are to be required to get a license to kill if they want to eliminate…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Syngenta Off To China?
From Bloomberg News For Syngenta’s interim CEO John Ramsay, the task at hand seems clear: work yourself out of the top job. Ramsay’s mandate since…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – USDA: 30% Drop in Florida Oranges From Last Season
Florida orange output will drop almost 30 percent from what it was last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The Buzz about Honey Bees and Marijuana (Sorry, We Just Couldn’t Resist)
Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey Eric Mussen Extension apiculturist emeritus Eric Mussen of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, “retired” in June of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Old Herbicides Used Because The New Ones Don’t Work. Bad News.
Dicamba herbicide drift onto plants growing adjacent to farm fields causes significant delays in flowering, as well as reduced flowering, of those plants, and…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – EPA Calls For Less Ethanol Next Year. Let’s Hear It For The EPA!
Kim Flottum The US EPA has changed direction on ethanol production for next year. Its ethanol mandate for 2016 requires less use of biofuel,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Native Bees Foraging in Fields are Exposed to Neonicotinoid Insecticides and other Pesticides
Released: 11/4/2015 11:30:00 AM According to the first-ever study of pesticide residues on field-caught bees, native bees are exposed to neonicotinoid insecticides and other…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Another Look at Neonics, Honey Bees, and Colony Losses.
From – PBS – The Salt. What’s On Your Plate. Food For Thought. America’s beekeepers are having a rough time. They lost an estimated…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Forager Bees ‘Turn On’ Gene Expression to Protect Themselves from Microrganisms, Toxins
Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey DAVIS–When honey bees shift from nurse bees to foragers, or from caring for the brood to foraging for nectar and…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Native Bees Exposed to Pesticides too
Alan Harman The first-ever study of pesticide residues on field-caught bees finds native bees are being exposed to neonicotinoid insecticides and other pesticides. The…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Still More On Neonicotinoids
Alan Harman Bumblebees more at risk from neonicotinoids. (Photo by Barbara McClellan) An international group of pollination experts has published a second summary in…
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