Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Unintended Consequences II: a "safer" pesticide kills bees in new ways.

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Beekeepers know that their hives are at risk when pesticides are sprayed anywhere nearby, and occasionally lose massive numbers of bees to ...
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Can you say "unintended consequences"?

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Figure 2 from Core et al 2012 The unlovely creature at top left is a fly which parasitizes bumblebees in North America. In an article j...
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Some links to while away your winter time with...

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Wow - I have such a backlog of stuff to post here it's not funny at all! Just a few more days until I get the backlog of other stuff don...
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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Sentinels on the Wing: the Status and Conservation of Butterflies in Canada.

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That's the title of a talk by Peter Hall, Research Associate at the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Ottawa, and co-author of Th...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

You need an artist to bring the science back to the way we live, to a human scale.

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That's a quote from artist David Buckland, founder of Cape Farewell , a group promoting a cultural response to climate change. Long base...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Protecting Pollinators by Improving Water Quality? Read on..

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Prof. M. Isabel Ramirez, 2011 Pollinator Advocate Prof. Isabel Ramirez is the Mexico Pollinator Advocate for 2011. She is doing an amb...
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Thursday, October 13, 2011

A Review of Sweet Things at the Revue

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photo by gak , rights reserved The Revue Cinema has been in its west-end Toronto community for 100 years now. Today Bee Biologist Brock...