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Catch Up With The Almonds
Almond Tuesday 1 Met with pollination broker Joe Traynor and USDA bee researcher Frank Eishen and others breakfast at 6:30 the first day in Bakersfiled. Frank and his two technicians, all from Weslaco,...
View ArticleResponse To The President’s Strategy To Promote Pollinator Health Released Today
Response To The President’s Strategy To Promote Pollinator Health Released Today From Bee Culture’s Office… Earlier today the White House released its long awaited, and long overdue Strategy To Promote...
View ArticleCATCH 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 (http://bit.ly/1WryA5Y) in...
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Birmingham Scientists Make Plant-Breeding Breakthrough
Researchers at the University of Birmingham have made a breakthrough which could be a major stepping stone to increasing food and crop security across the globe. Evolution is not always perfect, and...
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Old Herbicides Used Because The New Ones Don’t Work. Bad News.
Dicamba herbicide drift onto plants growing adjacent to farm fields causes significant delays in flowering, as well as reduced flowering, of those plants, and results in decreased visitation by honey...
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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, quite often, year round. This is from a blog written by...
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CATCH THE BUZZ -Headbanging Aussie Bee Takes a Heavy Metal Approach to...
Research has for the first time revealed the heavy metal secret behind an Australian bee’s unique approach to pollination: High-speed headbanging. IMAGE: Research has for the first time revealed the...
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Ecological Intensification: More Ways to Invest Green
A New Company is Improving the System Peter Kevan Ethical or environmentally responsible investment opportunities have been around since the 1990s. Most had to do with reducing uses of fossil fuels,...
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Authorities Warn of Beehive Thefts Connected to Almond...
The Butte County Sheriff’s Office says it has received information regarding recent thefts of hundreds of beehives in neighboring counties, reminding ranchers and farmers to remain vigilant in their...
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Better Food for Almond’s Honey Bees
Popular in Italy but also grown the United States, rapini (or broccoli raab) is a turnip-like vegetable that’s featured in the recipes of cable television’s top celebrity chefs. But foodies are not...
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Small Farms Benefit Significantly From a Few Extra Pollinators
American Association for the Advancement of Science IMAGE: A white-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lucorum) pollinating a sunflower (Helianthus sp.). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 22...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – California Beekeepers Set Up Hive Theft Central.
Reminder to Report ANY and ALL Hive Thefts If you have had any hives stolen within the last couple years, please email Joy Pendell directly at jpendell11@gmail.com with brand numbers, a description and...
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Bee Informed Partnership – BIP – Leads to Healthy Hives
By Christine Souza, California Farm Bureau Federation Bee Informed Partnership crop protection agents Robert Snyder and Ben Sallmann, above, collect samples of bees from colonies at an almond orchard...
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CATCH THE BUZZ – El Nino Didn’t Fix California’s Drought
California’s drought still remains, and the worst of it is still unchanged from last week. This follows a continuing trend of dry conditions returning to the West Coast. At the beginning of winter,...
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Better-Fed Honey Bees Fight off Harmful Effects of Parasite
Gail Wells OSU bee researcher Ramesh Sagili inspects a European honey bee in a carrot seed field near Madras, Ore. Photo by Lynn Ketchum CORVALLIS, Ore. –Well-nourished honey bees are better at...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – California’s Drought Not Over, And It’s Spreading East This...
Harris-Mann Climatology’s annual spring and summer outlook predicts more trouble for California and other parts of the West that have been locked in a 4-year-plus drought. The company also predicts the...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – Honee vs. Honey
Gary Shilling’s INSIGHT March 2016 A couple of weeks ago we received here at Bee Culture a press release telling us there was a new product on the market called Bee Free Honee. It was a sweetener made...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – Less Color Is The Key
Alan Harman Iridescent flowers are never as dramatically rainbow-colored as iridescent beetles, birds or fish and that’s because they tone down the iridescence of their petals and avoid confusing bees...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – Out Back Fires Have Done In Last Beekeeper
Alan Harman One of the last active beekeepers in Australia’s Northern Territory says too many controlled bush fires have made it impossible to run a sustainable honey business and he’s moving on. The...
View ArticleCATCH THE BUZZ – Bee Hive Thefts On The Rise
By: Ann-Marie Jeffries, Growing Produce| As many as 1,700 bee hives have been stolen from California orchards this year – and those are only the reported thefts. According to Joy Pendell, Media...
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