Tag: Pollinators

Bumblebees gather pollen twice as fast as honeybees, but new research from Colorado suggests that climate change may be straining the wildflowers available to bumblebees and threatening their populations’ survival....

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 has also been helping with...

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, bees, bats and butterflies....

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 inception, the program has...

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 voltage electric transmission...

As the demands on wildlife habitat continue to increase due to a variety of factors like urbanization, advancements in agriculture, and weather, the need to have every remaining and available...

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 exciting year of...

September will be here before you know it, and as summer transitions into fall, The Wildlife Society will be hosting its 24th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Over the...

There are close to 4,000 species of bees in North America. Bees are distinct from wasps and flies in that they are insects that collect pollen and nectar to feed to...

Despite the environmental benefits to honey bees and pollinators, diverse ecosystems struggle to gain acceptance on golf courses due to prevailing expectations for sterile, weed-free, mono-stands of turfgrass. As a...