The Connection Between Planetary and Human Immunity
Is the plight of the honeybee, other pollinators and insects in general, a part of a larger planetary immune dysfunction that is also...
top of page
Search
- Apr 14, 2021
- 1 min
April is National Native Plant Month!
Native plants are important for various reasons, the most important in my opinion and work is to support pollinators and other insects,...
7 views0 comments
- Mar 28, 2021
- 1 min
Maple Season 2021 Update
Upon writing this on March 17, my maple camp in Corriganville, Maryland was nearing the end of the maple tapping season! Leo of S and S...
7 views0 comments
- Dec 30, 2018
- 1 min
Honeybees' "cognitive flexibility"
Bees were successfully trained to move a ball to a specific location in order to get a food reward; bees learned the skill best by...
6 views0 comments
- Dec 30, 2018
- 2 min
Interesting Honeybee Facts
All worker bees, those foraging for nectar and those in the hive, feeding the brood, keeping the hive cool, tending to the queen, and...
3 views0 comments
- Dec 30, 2018
- 2 min
Plants for Year-Round Pollinator Foraging
Plants for Year-round Bee Forage, from the University of Georgia Honeybee Program As you're starting to think about Spring planting,...
5 views0 comments
- Dec 30, 2018
- 1 min
Diet and Honeybee Gene Expression
How do bee larvae develop into workers (sterile females)? It's all about what they're fed. In part, it is because of their diet of...
1 view0 comments
- Dec 30, 2018
- 1 min
What Happens When We Lose One Species of Pollinators?
In field experiments in the Rockies, scientists discovered the cascade effect on an ecosystem that lost just one pollinator species. “We...
9 views0 comments
- Dec 30, 2018
- 2 min
Honeybee Health Concerns and What We Can Do About it
A colony of honey bees is an amazing organism when it is healthy; it is a super-organism in many senses of the word. -The individual bees...
2 views0 comments
bottom of page