…public school kids to restore habitat for bees and other pollinators in New York City. As I believe, bees, other pollinators, and our kids are the keys to our future,”…
If It Smells Like a Petunias or Shampoo, It Might Be a Pesticide
…standard pesticides. Zhang is also investigating whether low doses of methyl benzoate could control Varroa mites, the No. 1 problem of managed honey bees today. You can read more about…
Feed a Bee Announces Coast-to-Coast Recipients for $500,000 Pollinator Forage Initiative
…to teachers and students around the world, for the first Family Garden Day of 2017. Families of the community gathered to learn about the importance of honey bees and other…
Bats Are Good For Agriculture
…are amazing insect hunters and are capable of eating a quarter of their own weight in insects every night. Bats also like to pollinate plants, like bees. Bats are said…
Almond Board: Cover Crop Workshop
…techniques on topics such as cover crop effects on nematodes, the Seeds for Bees program, integrated pest management for orchards, pollinator safety, and more. The workshop is June 28 from…
Second Lady Karen Pence, Secretary Perdue Unveil Beehive at Vice President’s Residence
…It is a triple-deep “Langstroth” beehive that holds traditional frames and was obtained from Eco Honeybees of Falls Church, VA. The hive contains almost 20,000 bees and continues to grow….
California Prunes Projected to Bounce Back
…a lot of wind, a lot of rain and the bees had almost no hours to fly, so we had very poor pollination in the prunes.” This year should be…
Plant Health and Production Workforce Funding from USDA
…program. Past projects include a University of Pennsylvania effort to aid plant pollination by producing improved honey bees. A University of Florida Project sought to develop drought-resistant peanut cultivars and…
Plants That Are a Magnet for Bees
…populations due to colony collapse disorder, native bee populations including bumblebees, mason bees and many other solitary bee species, are also on the decline. Habitat loss due to urban and…
Making Good Use of Old Firewood
…work great off patios, in yards or through forests. Old and rotten firewood can offer a good habitat for some of our wildlife. Such as frogs, insects, birds, solitary bees,…
Planning and What to Grow in Your Food Forest
…bees and butterflies. Groundcovers can be edible, nitrogen-fixing plants like red clovers, that will carpet the ground to prevent it drying out. In the beginning, everything should be planted at…
2017 California Almond Forecast
…bloom sprays more difficult. There were also concerns about bees pollinating in the stormy weather, but the extended bloom may have compensated for those issues. While all the rain complicated…
Almond Growers Check Effects of Rain at Bloom
Frequent rains and wind caused a few hurdles for California almond growers, whose orchards could have benefited from more calm weather to encourage fly time from honeybees to pollinate and…
Agri View: Pollinator Problem Worldwide
…by that mysterious disease that destroys whole hives of Honeybees. Hope for a solution is still strong but it still lingers. Until recently I was unaware that the problem has…