You can watch the video titled “Pollenators at Risk – Assignment Earth” on the Partnership’s Web site. Recommendations made near the end of the video to reduce our impact on declining pollenators include 1) creating habitat in your own backyard for pollenators by cultivating native plants, 2) reducing our impact on the environment by burning [...]
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The National Academies Web site announces National Pollenators Week: National Pollinators Week recognizes the importance of pollinators to ecosystem health and agriculture in the U.S. and encourages efforts to increase awareness and support for protecting and sustaining pollinators. During this week, events will take place in our nation’s capitol and throughout the country. The Academies’ [...]
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CNN reports today: Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out many of America’s honeybees could have a devastating effect on the country’s dinner plate, perhaps even reducing its people to a glorified bread-and-water diet.Honeybees do not just make honey; they pollinate more than 90 of the tastiest flowering [...]
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I keep hearing and reading reports about the mystery of missing honeybees from farms all over the U.S. I wrote about this in an earlier post titled The Birds and Declining Bees. That post referenced a report from the National Academy of Sciences titled “Status of Pollinators in North America.” You can find more information [...]
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The National Academies recent report titled, Status of Pollinators in North America, indicates “Long-term population trends for some North American pollinators — bees, birds, bats, and other animals and insects that spread pollen so plant fertilization can occur — are “demonstrably downward,” says a new report from the National Research Council. However, there is little [...]
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