PARIS (Reuters) – A French court suspended on Friday the license for two pesticides made by Dow Chemical, citing uncertainty over environmental risks including their effects on bees. Can you imagine this happening in the U.S.? In another amazing citizen triumph, the Australians demanded the end to neonicotinoids, a major bee killing chemical used in…

  As spring encroaches in fits and starts, it’s time to think of ways to boost your pollinator habitat. One thing that’s not so easy to do here in the southwest because of the lack of water, is grow wildflowers. But if you are able to keep one little patch watered, the honey is amazing,…

Half of my bees are lost. Dead. It’s the national average these days. 50% losses after the winter. Mites? Chemicals? Lack of food/habitat? Likely all of those things. As Mark Winston, 40 year bee researcher and professor of biology at Simone Fraser University, wrote in Beetime.. We are prone to accept death by a thousand…