…surrounding the decline in bee populations and the importance of bees in our everyday lives. Climate Change Photo courtesy of CDFA Plants and bees have evolved together as they both…
Butterfly and Pollinator Garden
…water your garden to keep it healthy. Best of luck, and thank you for helping monarchs, bumble bees and other pollinators! Help track monarch movements, milkweed growth and monarch life…
Honey Bee Colony Health Survey Results
…Honey Bees and Other Pollinators” released last summer, and gleans state-level estimates on key pollinator health topics. Results from the survey will provide statistically strong baseline information about honey bee…
Agri View: Pollinator Extinction
…scientific papers concludes that about 40 percent of invertebrate pollinator species (such as bees and butterflies) are facing extinction. Vertebrate pollinators (such as bats and birds) are somewhat better off…
Habitat for Wildlife and Pollinators
…to your area, visit http://www.xerces.org/milkweed-seed-finder/. USFWS photo. Wildflowers Help Other Pollinators, Wildlife Wildflowers on working lands benefit other pollinators, such as native bees and honey bees, as well as a…
Beet Curly Top Virus Report
…adults and nymphs per 10 sweeps during the spray campaign. There was an area on the north east side of the field that was avoided due to bees within an…
Farmers Check Impact of Spring Storms
…Niederholzer said, which slows the biological activity of the flowers. In many orchards, stormy weather also prevented honeybees from flying. Although prunes self-pollinate, Neill Mitchell said, the bees help increase…
Farm Camp
…farm is now an official public space. They grow four acres of vegetables, raise laying hens and turkeys, keep bees and a large population for worms to compost farm waste….
Save the Bees
Without bees there would be no berries, fruits, vegetables, almonds and other tree nuts. Cathy Isom tells us about the new project underway aimed at saving bees and other pollinators….
Keyhole Garden
…the perfect pace for staying physically active. Plus, when done well, they are something to behold, a tranquil place to sit and take in the plants, the birds, the bees…
Almond Growers to Play Critical Role in Solving Bee Loss Puzzle
…instead, growers should opt for alternative integrated pest management (IPM) insecticide timings until more is known about the impact of insecticides on honey bees, particularly on young developing bees in…
Kern County Citrus Bloom Announced
…Standard Road. This establishes the beginning of a time period when the use of insecticides is greatly restricted in citrus groves to enable bees to work the citrus blossoms and…
Agri View: Bee Gone
…Vilsack stated that more than 130 fruits and vegetables that make up a nutritious diet are cross pollinated by honeybees. Commercial bees raised on farms and then shipped to other…
Beet Curly Top Virus Report
…boxes were noted and information will be sent to the County for assistance in locating bee owners for treatment notification. Although bees were observed in bee boxes in nearby orchards,…