Wildlife
Bee story: Be cold, be dead
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Hobby beekeepers experienced a large loss of bees after freezing condition this winter. Bees were too cold to move from their clusters to feed.
Wildlife
Insect art: Competition sheds new light on garden damage
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What has six legs and creates art?
That’s true of all the competitors in a new garden art competition In Ontario.
Wildlife
Researchers tackle bee decline
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MSU entomologist Rufus Isaacs talks about declining bee populations, and that Michigan bees that pollinate the state’s blueberry, cherry and apple crops.
Echo
News dance: Bees do it. How about journalists?
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It’s a complex world. How best to explain it? That’s the challenge facing journalists — particularly those who cover the environment. Technology increases our communication tools. But can we also use less techy techniques?
Echo
Some honeybee deaths may be preventable, experts say
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Insecticides used on corn and soybeans are linked to honeybee colony deaths. But there may be other factors to blame.
Wildlife
Invasive species: Scourge to some, revenue to others
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It’s not often that an invasive species is welcomed into its host community. But some northern Michigan beekeepers want to keep spotted knapweed around because honey bees collect nectar from it.
Wildlife
Beekeepers buzz about embattled bees
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Colony collapse disorder is a scientific mystery in which bees suddenly disappear from their hives.
Large research projects are underway to determine the causes.
Scientists are looking at food sources, nutrition, diseases, viruses and parasites.
Wildlife
Beekeepers take cues from busy insects
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(MI) Grand Rapids Press – Beekeepers tend farm and backyard hives for the honey, to help pollinate gardens to earn cash and because they like bees. “Bees are so industrious. They work from sun up to sun down. It’s interesting to watch them go in and out of the hives and do their different jobs,” said businessman Chris Raphael, a Saugatuck resident who started beekeeping two years ago. More