A few weeks ago, the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded a grant to local bee activist Jamie Berlin to help ensure that Ypsilant’s Festival of the Honey Bee can continue on into the future. Following is my discussion with Jamie about how the festival came about, what we can expect from this year’s event, and […]
Tag Archives: Colony Collapse Disorder
The Festival of the Honey Bee, and the campaign to make Ypsi more pollinator-friendly
Posted in A2Awesome, Environment, Food, Uncategorized Also tagged apiary, Bee City USA, bees, Bike2Bees, First Fridays, First Fridays Ypsilanti, food security, honey bees, Jamie Berlin, Karl von Frisch, Lisa Bashert, Meghan Milbrath, pollinators, The Silence of the Bees, Ypsi Food Co-op, Ypsi Melissa 11 Comments
Oh, so maybe that’s what happened to the honey bees
The world’s bee population, as we’ve discussed here many times, appears to be plummeting. And, as you might imagine, it’s kind of a big deal, seeing as how a huge percentage of our crops require pollination. So, scientists have been working diligently these past few years to figure it out. The culprit, we’ve been told, […]
Posted in Agriculture, Corporate Crime, Environment, Food, Sustainability Also tagged bees, Clothianidin, corn, EPA, farming, give bees a chance, honey bees, insecticide, leaked document, neonicotinoid, Operation Leak Spin, pesticide, Wikileaks 13 Comments
Giving thanks to our robotic bee saviors
As we were recently talking about honeybees, the epidemic known as colony collapse, and the need for more local beekeepers, I thought that you might be interested in this recent Indian study showing that cell phones could play a part in hive collapse. Here’s a clip from an article on the study: …when a mobile […]