CATCH THE BUZZ – Feed a Bee
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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CATCH THE BUZZ – A Year on a Wildlife-Friendly Allotment Plot
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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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 – UK’s National Pollinator Strategy: Implementation Plan Issued
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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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…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Second Study Looks at Neonicotinoids and Pollinators
Alan 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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CATCH THE BUZZ – Forager Bees ‘Turn On’ Gene Expression to Protect Themselves from Microrganisms, Toxins
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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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…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Support Federal Highway and Rights-of-Way Vegetation Management
Please 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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CATCH THE BUZZ – National Association Of Wheat Growers Joins the Honey Bee Health Coalition
This summer, the National Association of Wheat Growers officially joined the Honey Bee Health Coalition, a group working collaboratively to implement solutions that…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Abstracts From The Entomological Society Of America Meeting
Bees’ 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…
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Distribution of flowering resources across urban neighborhoods and implications for pollinators David M. Lowenstein University of Illinois at Chicago, Emily Minor University of Illinois…
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Wet meadow restoration buffers the impact of climate change: pollinator resilience during the California drought Jennifer I. VanWyk UC Davis, Neal M. Williams University…
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The 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 MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – EPA Public Comment Rule on Mitigating Exposure to Pesticides Ends FRIDAY. Don’t Delay!
EPA 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 MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Pollinator Protection for Tribal Lands Available From EPA. Sign Up Today.
Pollinator 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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CATCH THE BUZZ – Experience Pollinator Day at the A. I. Root Company in Medina, Ohio.
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 MoreCATC H THE BUZZ – Low Doses of Insecticides Similar to Nicotine Found in about Half of Sampled Streams across the United States
Released: 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 MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Biomass Destruction, Declining Plant Life, Threaten Earth’s Future.
Unless humans slow the destruction of Earth’s declining supply of plant life, civilization like it is now may become completely unsustainable, according to a…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Global Health Challenged by Mankind. The End Is Near. Pollinator Loss Leads The Way.
By Alan Harman Changing environmental conditions around the globe – including the disappearance of pollinators – caused by human activity could threaten the health…
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