Friday, April 6, 2012

What does NAFTA have to do with pollinators?

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Melanie McCavour & Clement Kent - in the greenhouse In February we went to Montréal to talk about pollinator gardens at Concordia Uni...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Scent or touch? The art of Penelope Stewart at the Edward Day Gallery

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A George Cruikshank's illustration for  Tristram Shandy One of my favorite books is Tristram Shandy , and in honour of this the curre...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The amazing Louie Schwarzberg - fantastic pollinator clips

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Louie Schwarzberg I owe big thanks to artist Valerie Knapp for bringing the TED talk by Louie Schwarzberg to my attention. Mr. Schwarzb...
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Friday, January 6, 2012

bee-ing a foster parent with zombies

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Prof. Robin Owen While reading about the zombie-making fly Apocephalus borealis (see my previous post ) I found that some of the basic re...
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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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