Bayer Bee Care and TWS partner to improve bee health
When Daymond Hughes was around 10 years old, he started beekeeping alongside his grandfather, a hobby that would continue to interest him years later. That passion ...
Pollinators
Farmland milkweed supports more monarch eggs
Ever since they learned that the monarch butterfly’s swift decline is tied to reductions in its host plant, conservationists have been planting milkweed alongside ...
The return of monarch butterflies: Protection and restoration of milkweed habitat
Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) are one of the most iconic butterflies found in the U.S. These spectacular insects are fascinating in many ways, particularly ...
Climate change may be depriving bumblebees of food
Bumblebees gather pollen twice as fast as honeybees, but new research from Colorado suggests that climate change may be straining the wildflowers available to ...
Bayer and partners help create pollinator habitat
When most people think about Bayer, they automatically think of aspirin, the company’s most famous product. What they probably don’t know is that the company ...
Atlanta residents welcome pollinators to their urban gardens
The next time you bite into a juicy pear, thank the bees buzzing outside. Thirty-five percent of the world’s crop production depends on pollinators like birds, ...
Buzzing from coast to coast
Feed a Bee, Bayer Bee Care’s initiative for increasing pollinator forage and education across the United States, is well underway in its third year. Since its ...
Ecosystem medicine: Effective integrated vegetation management
Early in my career as a utility forester, I recommended a broadcast treatment of wetland-approved herbicides on a stand of red maple trees growing under a high ...
Bringing innovation and success to pollinator habitat project design
When designed with updated tools, technology and a wider range of appropriate species, pollinator habitat can help make “every acre the best it can be” for ...
Blooming buds and busy bees: How to prepare hives for spring
Spring brings a multitude of color and warmth into the environment, and for me personally, a beekeeper, spring means active honey bees and the promise of another ...