Tag: Food
Pollinator Week: Free books!
The only thing better than books is FREE books.
Will we have fruit in a future without bees?
Do people really still hand pollinate orchards in China? And why don’t they just get more bees?
It’s National Pollinator Week!
What is pollination? It’s SEX.
Guest Post: Honey bees, CCD, and the Elephant in the Room
Dr. Doug Yanega stops by to tell us why he thinks Colony Collapse Disorder is nothing new.
Happy St. Urho’s Day, 2013!
Mid-March! A time when the US turns its attention to an important event–a type of March Madness, if you will. People stock up on food, buy special t-shirts, and drink alcoholic libations in mass quantities. […]
Insect Poop Tea
You might have heard of Kopi Luwak or Cat Poop Coffee, an Indonesian coffee made from beans digested and excreted by civet cats. I love coffee. I mean, I LOVE COFFEE. I would inject it if I […]
Pollinator Week Squee
Since it’s Pollinator Week, and we talked about Squee and cuteness yesterday, how about an adorable video from New Zealand about pollination?
It’s National Pollinator Week!
Once again, It’s time to celebrate the little animals that…facilitate plant sex by moving plant sperm around. I’ve discovered over time that a lot of people don’t actually know what pollination is, other than it’s something […]
Cochineal Taxonomy Fails
In which I prove that the average person should care about taxonomic errors in news stories, using LOLcats and Einstein.
Bug Gwen 