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Bee Informed: Eliminating the Varroa Mite, Native Grasses to Revitalize Your Yard, Solitary Wasps, and Increased Pathogens in Urban Bees
Each month our Bee Informed Blog highlights current news, science, and research related to solitary bee conservation, food insecurity, and sustainability.1. Australia is in a unique position to eliminate the bee-killing Varroa mite. Here’s what happens if we don’t(The Conversation) Varroa mites – notorious honey bee parasites – have recently reached Australian shores, detected at the Port of Newcastle in New South Wales last year. If they establish here, there would be significant implications f
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Jun 5th 2023
Bee Informed: Challenging Garden Norms, Photographing California's Native Bees, Bees Flock to Clearcut Areas, and EPA Report on Neonics
Each month our Bee Informed Blog highlights current news, science, and research related to solitary bee conservation, food insecurity, and sustainability.1. She ripped up her manicured lawn and challenged the norms of gardening stories(npr.org, by Melissa Block) "I love a person who talks kindly to plants," poet Camille Dungy writes in her new contemplative memoir. And for sure, Dungy can be counted among those who do exactly that.In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden, Dungy describes he
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May 8th 2023
Bee Informed: Celebrate Earth Day with a Bee Walk, Squash Bees are Spreading across North America, and Mapping People's Knowledge of Bees
Each month our Bee Informed Blog highlights current news, science, and research related to solitary bee conservation, food insecurity, and sustainability.1. Celebrate Earth Day with a bee walk(Environment America, By Steven Blackledge) Earth Day—April 22nd—is a day to not only celebrate our planet but also to take part in environmental education and activism to build a greener, healthier world. And what better way to help the planet than by helping the fuzzy little critters whose hard work holds
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Apr 10th 2023
Bee Informed: Vaccinating Bees, Winter-Blooming Plants for Bees, Free Native Pollinators Webinar, and Global Pollinator Losses Tied to Early Deaths
Each month our Bee Informed Blog highlights current news, science, and research related to solitary bee conservation, food insecurity, and sustainability.1. "How the New Vaccine - For Bees - Works"(Sam Westreich, PhD, NewsBreak Contributor) For a tiny insect, bees are vitally important to many aspects of our daily life, even if you don’t enjoy a bit of honey in your tea.But recently, commercial honeybees have been under attack by a dangerous bacterium. This bacterium is named Paenibacillus larva
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Jan 23rd 2023
Bee Informed: Unusual Bee Species, Takeaways From California's Native Plant Conference, and An Introduction to Our Native Bees
Each month our Bee Informed Blog highlights current news, science, and research related to solitary bee conservation, food insecurity, and sustainability.1. "New unusual bee species discovered with dog-like snout"(Phys.org) A new native bee species with a dog-like "snout" has been discovered in Perth bushland though Curtin-led research that sheds new light on our most important pollinators.Published in the Journal of Hymenoptera Research, author Dr. Kit Prendergast, from the Curtin School of Mol
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Nov 9th 2022