WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2016 – Starting in November, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will accept and process applications for enrollment in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP), the nation’s largest conservation program. Applications will be made available in local service centers.
NRCS has made several updates to the program this year to help producers better evaluate …
Earlham Institute, Norwich, England
Particularly under threat are honey bees, which are as vital to our food systems as the crops they pollinate, and which are prone to a range of emergent diseases including Moku and Deformed wing virus (DWV).
The Moku virus was identified on Moku Island in Hawaii through a collaboration of institutes with complementary expertise.
Purnima Pachori of the Platforms …
Plantings in Texas, Kansas, Illinois and Florida will educate communities and establish more forage for spring 2017
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. (Nov. 1, 2016) – Each year, we eagerly look forward to fall, the official season of harvest time, pumpkin pie and hot apple cider. But none of these fall favorites would be quite as beloved without the hard work put …
In time for Thanksgiving and the holiday season, the Bee Informed Partnership (BIP), the most trusted source of data on the health of America's honey bees, today launched a campaign to raise public awareness of the vital roles that honey bees and beekeepers play in pollinating and producing many of the foods we love -- especially at this time of …
On Friday 10/7/16 over 200 beekeepers gathered at Dadant and Sons Inc Fresno CA warehouse for Dadant’s official grand opening. Door prizes were given out every 30-45 minutes consisting of new Dadant smokers and autographed copies of the newly revised edition of The Hive and Honeybee. At the end of the day, two grand prizes were given out. One lucky beekeeper was the proud winner …
MADISON, Wis. — A proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to seek endangered status for the rusty-patched bumblebee has focused renewed attention on bumblebees living at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. This 1,200-acre natural area in Madison still has wild populations of the rare insect, which was fairly common until about 20 years ago.
The proposal cited habitat loss, insecticide …
A new discovery takes plants’ deception of their pollinators to a whole new level. Researchers reporting in Current Biology on October 6 found that the ornamental plant popularly known as Giant Ceropegia fools certain freeloading flies into pollinating it by mimicking the scent of honeybees under attack. The flies find that smell attractive because they typically dine on the drippings of …
Beekeepers with colonies along the eastern coastline of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina are being warned of the potential for flooding and wind damage from Hurricane Matthew. An estimate of regular in-state colonies as well as migratory beekeeper colonies brought to the Southeast for overwintering has been put at over 250,000 by some estimates. Many of these colonies …