Urban Beekeeping
Urban Beekeeping: A Green Illusion? The Need for a Measured Approach to Regenerating Biodiversity in Cities NEWS PROVIDED BY 3Bee / Milan PRNewswire/ — Urban beekeeping is…
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Urban Beekeeping
Urban beekeeping project works to restore honey bee populations with hives all over Washington, D.C. BY KERRY BREEN, CHRISTINA RUFFINI, GILLIAN MORLEY From rooftops…
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Urban Microbiome and Bees
Environment: Honey bees provide a snapshot of city landscape and health by BioMed Central Urban honey bees could be used to gain insight into the…
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UMSL Study of Urban Orchard Pollination
STLMade spotlights UMSL-led research on pollination in urban orchards BY STEVE WALENTIK Aimee Dunlap, an associate professor of biology at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, has been directing…
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Shopping Centers and Beehives
An Alternative Use for Shopping Centers: Beehives David Moin ShopCore Properties is creating a lot of buzz. The real estate company is installing beehives…
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Urban Beekeeping…Maybe Not a Great Idea
Everyone got so into the idea of urban beekeeping that now there might be too many urban bees What happens when every company…
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Cover Crops Benefit Everyone
Cover Crops Benefit Both Commercial Farmers and Urban Gardeners NRCS National Plant Materials Center (PMC) staff David Kidwell-Slak (PMC Manager), Shawn Belt (Horticulturist), and…
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Climate in Cities effecting Pollination
City trees are turning green early, prompting warnings for food and pollination MICHAEL LEVITT Premature greening in urban trees could have negative environmental…
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Urban Beekeeping Growth in Canada and US
VICTORIA – More bees are coming to Victoria. Canadian urban beekeeping company Alveole is putting approximately 50,000 new bees per hive into 12 new North American cities,…
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PBS, My Garden of a Thousand Bees
Nature: My Garden of a Thousand Bees Premieres Wednesday, October 20 at 8/7c on PBS (check local listings), pbs.org/nature and the PBS Video app. Taking refuge from the…
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Is it Time to Put the Brakes on Beekeeping?
The age of extinction ‘Honeybees are voracious’: is it time to put the brakes on the boom in beekeeping? The number of…
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The Buzz on Urban Bees
The Buzz on Urban Bees By: Carey Smith Urban beekeeping is a growing trend. It may seem odd to many to keep bees in…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Swarm of Killer Bees Attack First Responders
Swarm of 40,000 Killer Bees Attack First Responders in California By: Paula Froelich Firefighters respond to a swam of bees in Pasadena. Pasadena Fire Department…
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CATCH THE BUZZ- Honey Bees Buzzing in New Hives
Honey Bees Buzzing in New Hives at Perimeter Center Office Complex Posted by: Dyana Bagby A Perimeter Center office complex is the latest home…
Read MoreIf The ‘Shrinking’ City Phenomenon Is A Good Thing, It’s Bees.
Open Spaces Make Detroit the Place To Bee. Written by Robert Smith If the “shrinking city” phenomenon in Detroit is good for one thing,…
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DOWNTOWN It’s Harder For You, Urban Newbee
By Toni Burnham The Golden Years Are Gone. The most experienced beekeepers I know tell me of golden years some three decades ago, before…
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DOWNTOWN The Good Of The Hive, The Good Of The Bees, And The Good Of Us All
By: Toni Burnham 500,000 Murals Across America “The Good of the Hive” is a quest by urban artist Matthew Willey to paint 50,000 honey…
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DOWNTOWN New Hope In The Fight Against Varroa
Samuel Ramsey One thing you might hear about Samuel Ramsey, soon-to-be-Ph.D from the University of Maryland, is that he is a great speaker: during…
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DOWNTOWN Keeping Bees Where The Poop Hits The Fan
A Bunch Of Other Machinery, Too. I recently told a reporter (who wasn’t there for me) that this should be her headline: Largest Sewage…
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DOWNTOWN Easy Urban Crime Reduction
Apiary Hygiene! At this month’s club meeting, we handed out 6” by 16” rectangles of eight-to-the-inch hardware cloth to any member who wanted one,…
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