Somehow I missed this–Dennis was at TED last year! He discusses honey bees, native bees, and some of the evidence for CCD and native bee declines. I love his slogan of “Make Meadows, Not Lawns.”
Sadly, the comments on this post seem to be people who would rather have a conspiracy (“Monsanto! Pesticides! Microwaves!”) than actual [...]
I’ve been getting a lot of emails lately about this news story:
“Cure For Honey Bee Colony Collapse?
ScienceDaily (Apr. 14, 2009) — For the first time, scientists have isolated the parasite Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia) from professional apiaries suffering from honey bee colony depopulation syndrome. They then went on to treat the infection with complete success.”
That sounds [...]
Item #1: Detroit has a 22% unemployment rate. (click the link for a nice NPR audio story).
Damn. Just…Damn. Michigan as a whole has a 12% unemployment rate, and it goes up even higher if you count people who have stopped looking for work.
Item #2: Texas is up to more creationist shenanigans. Sigh.
Item #3: Michelle Bachmann. [...]
The Bee Course is a workshop offered for conservation biologists,
pollination ecologists and other biologists who want to gain greater
knowledge of the systematics and biology of bees. From the course description:
“The field of pollination ecology explores the reproductive biology of plants in general, including the biotic and abiotic agents associated with pollination [...]
I was just thinking “Gosh, we’ve been seriously lately at the Bug Blog….”
Fortunately, Steven Colbert weighs in on the bee-cocaine experiments! (At 2:12)
Bonus: before he gets to the honey, he explains how cow-tipping will help the environment.
Sadly, I can’t embed the Colbert video at WordPress, but you can click and visit.
He also covers the escape [...]
Wack off. No, seriously. It’s an insect repellent!
Lovely photos of fecal shields (really!) at Cicindela. You’ve never seen such beautiful poop.
Anna has a lovely post (with photos) about cheating bees.
Myrmecos has a year-end ant roundup.
Idiots want to use DDT in Idaho.
BeetlesintheBush has moved to WordPress! You can still find awesome photos of tiger [...]
Ok, this is one of the weirder holiday news releases:
Honey bees on cocaine dance more
Your first question is probably “Why the heck are they giving the good stuff to insects?” I’m imagining a bunch of worker bees with tiny, tiny rolled-up dollar bills…..
In humans, cocaine influences our brains’ dopamine system, which helps control reward responses, [...]
Saw this last week and was really fascinated by the combo of snow and what I suspect is a hornet’s nest.
Where are they now? If it’s a bald-faced hornet nest, nearly all of them are dead. The nests are abandoned in winter, and all the non-reproductive hornets die. A fertilized queen will overwinter in the [...]
Another interesting entomological tidbit I stumbled over on the interwebs: bee performance art in Canada!
“Who Will Tell the Bees?
Telling the bees is a tradition dating back to Medieval times, where a member of a community was designated as a messenger to visit the apiaries to relay to the bees significant events in the lives of [...]
I’ve written before about various insect-themed comic heroes, and here’s a new one from 1956: The Red Bee.
He appears to be distinguished by….extremely poofy pink sleeves and striped tights. Hmm.
The Red Bee was the alter ego of a District Attorney who kept his bees in his belt buckle. Yes. You read that correctly. I’m guessing [...]
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