Flowers Evolving
Study: Flowers are Starting to Self-Pollinate Due to Fewer Insects Flowers are “giving up on” pollinators and evolving to be less attractive to them…
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Whole Foods Pollinator Health Policy
Whole Foods Market Unveils New Pollinator Health Policy for Fresh Produce and Floral Whole Foods Market announced a new pollinator policy for its Fresh…
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USDA Cost of Pollination
Cost of Pollination ISSN: 2475-4315 Released December 15, 2023, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of Agriculture…
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Penn State Pollen ID
Penn State Honey and Pollen Diagnostic Lab offers pollen identification service By Noah Evans UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State Honey and Pollen Diagnostic Lab now…
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Improving Cherry Harvest
Pollination By More Than One Bee Species Improves Cherry Harvest University of Gothenburg To obtain the biggest cherry harvest, trees should be pollinated by…
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LEDs Improve Pollination
How can LEDs improve Bee Pollination in Greenhouses? Bees are an essential partner in helping pollinate our flowers, enabling healthy production of quality fruits…
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Pollen ID Lab Reopened
Dr. Heather Thakar has re-opened Texas A&M’s Palynology Laboratory! It took some time to regroup after Dr. Vaughn Bryant’s death. However, they are again…
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Pollinators Get a Boost from CDFA
Pollinators Get a Boost in Santa Barbara Thanks to CDFA Funds By Community Environmental Council Recently, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) awarded…
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Honey Bee Colony Movements
Thousands of commercial honey bee colonies are transported long distances to pollinate California almonds. The California-grown almonds in your trail mix or almond milk…
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Tracking Pollinators in Ireland
How technology is giving nature – and pollinators – a helping hand in Armagh Gary McDonald Business Editor NATURE – and the art of…
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Honey Bees Faithful to Flowers
Honey Bees More Faithful to Their Flower Patches Than Bumble Bees Contact: Kim Kaplan Email: Kim Kaplan MADISON, WI,—Honey bees are more faithful to their…
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San Diego Bees
Plants Pollinated by Honey Bees Produce Lower-quality Offspring Dominant in the San Diego region, foreign honey bees visit nearly twice as many flowers as…
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Monarchs’ White Spots
Monarchs’ White Spots Aid Migration By Eurasia Review If you’ve ever wondered how the monarch butterfly got its spots, University of Georgia researchers may have just…
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Restore and Protect Solutions Offer
National Academies Offer Sustainable Solutions to Restore and Protect Critical Species By Sydney O’Shaughnessy Pollinators including insects, birds, bats, and other animals are essential…
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High School Pollinator Grants
Pollinator Grants Offered to High Schools Sand County Foundation is now accepting applications from high school teachers for pollinator habitat grants. This competitive grant…
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Bumblebee Size
When it comes to bumblebees, does size matter? While honey bee workers are all the same size, that’s not true for bumblebees. Scientists aren’t…
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Ancestral Flower Power
Insects have a lot to do with ancestral flower power, study finds The Botanic Gardens of Sydney has published a paper with researchers from…
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Endangered Species Update
Pending Endangered Listings: What Growers Need to Know Two pending endangered species listings for pollinators can have major impacts on the almond industry as…
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Pollinator Week Tips
National Honey Board shares Pollinator Week Tips Source: National Honey Board By Brian Amick Honey bees are responsible for a third of the food we…
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Happy Pollinator Week!
Links: Honey Bee Health Coalition: https://honeybeehealthcoalition.org/ Farmers for Monarchs: https://farmersformonarchs.org/
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