Global warming kills...
Bees, to be specific.Did you know that everything you eat is dependent on a tiny insect that you seldom see? And that global warming is threatening their very existence?I should know, I keep mason...
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Air Pollution Killing The Fragrance of Flowers
Air pollution from our power plants and cars is destroying the fragrance of flowers. This may sound like a silly, liberal "tree-hugging" complaint about the evils of air pollution. But, think about the...
View ArticleWHERE HAVE ALL THE WORKER BEES GONE?
Gone to fungus every one. But seriously, I bought some honey from my local farmer’s market that is putting some mall parking to an attractive, wholesome, and very tasty alternative use one day a week....
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A More Ancient World: Plant Color
Plant color pervades our consciousness. We live in a green world (in fact a historically famous paper in ecology addresses the question of why the world is green). Green refers to a political party,...
View ArticleThe bees are losing, while Atlas merely shrugs
First, let me tell you about myself and why I have a particularly strong interest in bees, and why their welfare is personal to me. And then I'll tell a little about one of the worst of the perils that...
View ArticlePlease act: Tell the EPA: Bees can't wait 6 more years for rescue. Deadline...
In just a few days, the time allotted for commenting to the FDA to urge it suspend use of a bee-killing pesticide will expire, after which, the EPA will likely stick to its decision to delay review of...
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The Daily Bucket: Fruit Bats by the Sea
The Daily Bucket is a regular feature of the Backyard Science group. It is a place to note any observations you have made of the world around you. Sun, rain, trees, fish, insects, mollusks,...
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Massive Oregon Bee Killing Update: Pesticide Temporarily Banned, Memorial...
A bee killing pesticide is banned in Oregon (albeit temporarily)! And sadly, a memorial service for the bee deaths (explained in detail below) is to be held today, Sunday, June 30th, 2013, in what is...
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Climate change is disrupting flower pollination, research shows
New research published in Current Biology reports that rising temperatures due to climate change are causing bees to fly before flowers have bloomed, which makes pollination less likely. Three quarters...
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New Studies: Bees Addicted to Neonicotinoids, and New Evidence of Toxicity
Two new studies, both published by the journal Nature, are once again indicting the pesticide group, neonicotinoids, as having adverse affects on bee populations.Washington Post:A pair of new studies...
View ArticleHas the Tide Turned On Bee-Killing Pesticides? New Bans & Scientists Warn of...
Please also see my diary from two days ago which focuses on two highly significant and disturbing new peer reviewed studies published in the journal, Nature. The focus of this diary is the new...
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Bee survey just out: second highest annual loss recorded to date
If the recent studies which show neonicotinoid pesticide toxicity to bumblebee and other wild bees, as well as its addictiveness to bees weren't bad enough, a new nationwide survey just released which...
View ArticleEPA Considers Allowing Bee-Killing Pesticide to Be Sprayed on 165 Million...
This is sickening. Scott Pruitt’s EPA is considering using the pollinator killing thiamethoxam pesticide on major food crops which cover 165 million acres of US farmland. Crops that will be sprayed are...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - wood rose
June 10, 2018Pacific NorthwestWe have two kinds of wild roses in my neighborhood. The vigorous Nootka roses revel in full light, and hence are abundant on roadsides, in fields, by the beach, encroach...
View ArticleOminous research finds excessive 'heat hurts crops and pollinators with...
"And if the farmers have allowed just one field edge to go back to some kind of feral vegetation, where there's flowers, you look down, and there's a bee. They're always waiting around the edges for us...
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