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Bee Informed: Forest Bees, Greenhouse Pollinators, and Solar Field Bee Habitat
Each month our Bee Informed Blog highlights current news, science, and research related to solitary bee conservation, food insecurity, and sustainability.1. In a New Study, Spring Forest Bees Get Their DueTemperate forests in the eastern United States come to life in April and May with colorful blankets of wildflowers, birds singing from newly leafing tree branches, and plenty of insect activity. That includes one greatly understudied group of native insects: the forest-living bees. A new study,
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Nov 22nd 2021
Bee Informed: Bee-Free Honey, "Save the Bees", and A Glimmer of Hope
Each month our Bee Informed Blog highlights current news, science, and research related to solitary bee conservation, food insecurity, and sustainability.1. Exclusive: We Tasted the World’s First Real Honey Made Without Bees From MeliBio and We Couldn’t Taste the DifferenceCalifornian food tech MeliBio has just unveiled its flagship product, the world’s first-ever real honey made without bees. After debuting the product at a private tasting event in San Francisco, MeliBio is now ready to take or
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Oct 25th 2021
Bee Informed: Helping Trees (and Bees), Neonics Harm Bees, New Bee Lawn Resource
Each month our Bee Informed Blog highlights current news, science, and research related to solitary bee conservation, food insecurity, and sustainability.1. Helping trees survive the droughtTrees, both urban and rural, especially our native trees, provide habitats for birds, insects, and other animals. Trees provide food and nesting sites for many of our native bees, the shade that can reduce our energy use during extreme heat and help clean the air of pollutants. And as droughts become more int
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Aug 30th 2021
Bee Informed: Saving America's Pollinators Act, Immunity to Pesticides, and Influx of Honey Bees
Each month our Bee Informed Blog highlights current news, science, and research related to solitary bee conservation, food insecurity, and sustainability.1. Support Saving America's Pollinators Act!
During Pollinator Week 2021 in June, U.S. Representatives Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) and Jim McGovern (D-MA) reintroduced Saving America’s Pollinators Act (SAPA) to reverse ongoing declines in wild and managed pollinators. The bill suspends the use of neonicotinoid (neonic) insecticides and other
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Jul 22nd 2021
Bee Informed: Flexible Pollination, Eusociality of Bumble Bees, Mushroom Hives
Each month our Bee Informed Blog highlights current news, science, and research related to solitary bee conservation, food insecurity, and sustainability.1. Adjusting interactions help some of California's wild bee populations survive
PHYS.ORG - Across California's Central Valley, under stress from large-scale agriculture and climate change, native bee species that are flexible in their pollination behavior when around other wild bee populations appear best suited for survival in shrinkin
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Jun 18th 2021