36 days ago by Annette

Thanks for the question, Ben! Of course I have mighty big plans for the coming year – but don’t we all? I decided this coming year needs to be much better planned than last, so I took the time to figure out how much plantable space I have: 2680 square feet in the frames that are not used by things t ...

36 days ago by Walden Ponderer

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” --John Muir For those who are unfamiliar with John Muir, he was the Scottish born 19th century naturalist who became known in his adopted United States as the “Father of the National Parks” – most of his time ...

36 days ago by Carmen Mandel

Filed under: Animal welfare, Conservation, Urban wildlife Tagged: bees, colony colapse disorde, pollination

36 days ago by winterbanyan

Where Have All the Flowers Gone? High-mountain wildflower season reduced, affecting pollinators like bees, hummingbirds It’s summer wildflower season in the Rocky Mountains, a time when high-peaks meadows are dotted with riotous color. But for how long? Once, wildflower season in montane meadow ecos ...

36 days ago by thatmrgguy

Detective Paco has dug up a story on the decimation of the Honeybee population. It seems like there’s a parasitic fly which lays it’s eggs in the stomaches of honeybees, causing them to act like zombies, eventually leaving their hives and wandering to their deaths. A heap of dead bees was supposed t ...

36 days ago by arcFreeze Team

Scientists from San Francisco State University just announced the latest in a string of explanations for Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) (a phenomenon that has decimated worldwide populations of honeybees): parasitic flies are attacking bees and turning them into zombies. The study, published in the ...

36 days ago by Sara

Here is the temperature at 2:00 this afternoon, sitting in the shade of the covered deck. Is it really the fourth day of January? I suppose in the Southern Hemisphere there's nothing remarkable about such temperatures in January. We here in the southern part of California are used to warmth... ...bu ...

36 days ago by Bee Girl

The bees are cleaning house! A couple of days ago the sun was shining and it was pretty warm out (50ish is my guess), so the bees took the opportunity to clean out their dead. One by one they flew out with a dead bee in their clutches and simply dropped said bee on the ground in front of their hive. ...

36 days ago by 1st Man

Bee with Fly Parasite on its back Now this story is quite alarming. Scientists have discovered a tiny fly that deposits its eggs in the abdomen of honeybees, and the gestating larvae take over the bees brains, essentially turning them, for lack of a better term, into "zombies". This causes them to g ...

36 days ago by Mark Timmins

It is estimated that there are around 19000 diffeent species of bee in the world...One species for each visitor.... Thanks to the Washington Post for this beautiful Alexander McQueen mask Obscure fashion references as ever.....