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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Feed a Bee Initiative Receives Pledges to Plant 65 Million Flowers in First Year, with more than 70 partner organizations and 256,000 citizens taking…
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An allotment is essentially a public garden plot, common in the UK. They may house vegetable gardens, chickens, flowers and more, and are used,…
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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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Defra has issued its National Pollinator Strategy: Implementation Plan update a year on from the initial work, updating on its neonicotinoid strategy. The National…
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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…
Read MoreAlan Harman An international group of pollination experts has published a second summary in as many years on the scientific evidence about the effects…
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A varroa mile clings to a forager (worker bee) as the bee nectars on lavender. (Photos by Kathy Keatley Garvey) By Kathy…
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Alan Harman Bumblebees more at risk from neonicotinoids. (Photo by Barbara McClellan) An international group of pollination experts has published a second summary in…
Read MorePlease join the Pollinator Partnership, the American Society of Landscape Architects and other organizations and businesses including this one by signing a group letter…
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This summer, the National Association of Wheat Growers officially joined the Honey Bee Health Coalition, a group working collaboratively to implement solutions that…
Read MoreBees’ needs across a suburban-rural landscape mosaic Kyle Teixeira-Martins McGill University, Martin J. Lechowicz McGill University, Andrew Gonzalez McGill University Background/Question/Methods Wild bees can…
Read MoreDistribution of flowering resources across urban neighborhoods and implications for pollinators David M. Lowenstein University of Illinois at Chicago, Emily Minor University of Illinois…
Read MoreWet meadow restoration buffers the impact of climate change: pollinator resilience during the California drought Jennifer I. VanWyk UC Davis, Neal M. Williams University…
Read MoreThe effect of sub-lethal pesticide exposure on pollination-relevant bee foraging behaviors across a species richness gradient Background/Question/Methods Carolyn Ayers Emory University Emily Dobbs Emory…
Read MoreEPA released a New Rule for public comment, Bees; Mitigating Exposure from Acutely Toxic Pesticide Products (Docket #: EPA-HQ-OPP-2014-0818-0003) late last spring. The deadline…
Read MorePollinator Protection Training for Tribes November 17-19, 2015 Northern Quest Hotel, Spokane, WA Owned and operated by the Kalispel Tribe of Indians http://events.SignUp4.net/Tribal_Pollinator_Training Nominations…
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Beginning at noon on Saturday, August 22, a whole hive of pollinator people will be at the Pollinator Gardens at 623 West Liberty, in…
Read MoreReleased: 8/18/2015 11:00:00 AM USGS discovered insecticides known as neonicotinoids in a little more than half of both urban and agricultural streams sampled across…
Read MoreUnless humans slow the destruction of Earth’s declining supply of plant life, civilization like it is now may become completely unsustainable, according to a…
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