Homebuggarden commented earlier this week:
“Has anyone come across a good source of information on providing nest support for alternative pollinators such as bumblebees, digger bees, and the like?”
Indeed, I have! Xerces has an excellent PDF download, Nests for Native Bees. There are also additional detailed instructions in their publication Farming for Bees (starting on page [...]
In case you missed it, here’s a link to the NPR interview with Steve Buchmann, the international coordinator of the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign. You might remember Buchmann as one of the authors of the excellent book Forgotten Pollinators.
From the NPR blog:
“Mother Nature has lots of other pollinators — typically five to ten types [...]
Check out these Pollination Reources for teachers at the NBII! (National Biological Information Infrastructure) They currently have 78 lessons related to pollination and pollinators listed.
They also have some fun resources on pollination and food, like this one: Chocolate’s Sweet Little Secret (PDF)
“The cacao flower, while only about the diameter of a nickel, is complex in [...]
It’s National Pollinator Week, and here’s a neat site for you–a complete list, continuously updated, of crops of importance to humans that insects pollinate. Pollinating animals contribute to at least one out of every three bites we eat.
Some of the fruits and vegetables on this list are obviously recognizable. There are also crops that produce [...]
Celebrate National Pollinator Week, June 22-28, 2009!
There is a nifty collection of online resources–including document templates, fact sheets, and more–online here!
There are even stickers you can print on your printer. Cool!
September 24, 2008 – 1:03 am
Still quite tired, so time for a link collection!
An interview with E.O. Wilson (!) at Radiolab
Amazing glass bug sculptures
Lovely caterpillar and moth you should NOT touch
NCSU museum discusses the smell of insect science (moth balls)
Lawnchair Naturalist has a nice series on rearing Cecropia moths
Lovely aphid photos at The Other 95%
Myrmecos dissects reporting on Ants–specifically, an [...]
It’s Thursday of National Pollinator Week, and today let’s look at some other forgotten pollinators: flies. Specifically, carrion-fly and dung-flies that pollinate plants, a process called sapromyophily.
The flowers these flies pollinate produce smells mimicking decaying flesh, urine, or farts. These smells are created in part by the happily-named amines putrescine and cadaverine.
(Helpful Hint for [...]
I mentioned the book “Forgotten Pollinators” on Monday of National Pollinator Week, and I wanted to follow up on that today. The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (ASDM) hosts a Forgotten Pollinators Website to help focus interest on some of the lesser known migratory pollinators.
While pollinators in general are facing many threats, migratory pollinators are most at [...]
It’s National Pollinator Week, and here’s a neat site for you–a complete list, continuously updated, of crops of importance to humans that insects pollinate.
Some of the fruits and vegetables are obviously recognizable, and remember that clover and alfalfa are an important food crop for many of the animals we eat. There are also crops that [...]
Yes, June 22nd-28th is National Pollinator Week. Animal pollinators are needed for 90% of all flowering plants, and at least a third of human food crops.
We would be screwed without pollinators.
The folks at Pollinator.org have a bajillion PDF handouts for you, as well as some nifty posters. Xerces Society also has many PDF documents about [...]
