http://www.plowhearth.com/magazine/article-pollinators.asp
“ATTRACTING POLLINATORS
from National Wildlife Federation”
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http://www.extension.iastate.edu/news/2005/mar/pollinators0305.htm
“Pollinators in the Garden”
3/22/2005
“Yard and Garden Column for the Week Beginning March 25, 2005”
By Betsy Matos
Entomologist
Iowa State University Extension
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Attracting pollinators to your garden
Although we appreciate flowers for their beauty, the colors, shapes and even fragrances first evolved for only one purpose; to attract pollinators. Flowers with bright colors such as blue, yellow, red and violet are the most often visited by pollinators during the daytime. At night, colors are less important and smells take on new importance. Co-evolution of flowers and pollinators has resulted in spectacular differences among flowers. Some flowers have variations in colors, lines, or ‘roads’ that point the pollinator toward the nectar. Other flowers have traps, twists and other devices that force pollinators into contact with the pollen.”
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“‘If you want to save the planet, keep bees’”
May 4 2007
by Madeleine Brindley, Western Mail
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The Welsh Beekeepers’ Association said a parasitic mite – called varroa – had virtually wiped out Wales’ wild bees.”
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “The WBA now wants to persuade more people in Wales to help preserve the bee population by becoming beekeepers.
WBA secretary John Taylor, who met the UK’s chief inspector for bees yesterday in Llandeilo, said, “A lot of the wild bees – the feral bees – have died out.
“We had an invasion of a mite called varroa and that attaches itself to the bees and it eventually destroys them.
“Those that we have in our bee hives we are able to treat. But the wild colonies – and there were goodness knows how many in days gone by – have been virtually wiped out.
“The vast majority of honey bees you see now belong to beekeepers.””
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http://www.kilgorenewsherald.com/news/2007/0503/Front_Page/006.html
“Honey bees get new home”
(May 3, 2007)
NEWS BRIEF: “Things were really buzzing at Schleier and Brown’s office yesterday. It wasn’t so much a legal matter, but still a stinging subject. About 30,000 honey bees set up a hive in the tree just outside the law firm’s front door. B. J. Owens, city of Kilgore, was called to look into the problem. “I called Werner Grimsley, a bee keeper out of Longview to relocate the hive,” said Owens.
The full version of this story will be available to all readers after 4 weeks.”
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http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070504/BUSINESS/705040351/1003
“Disorder decimates state’s bees
Pollination costs rise for Delaware farmers”
By LULADEY B. TADESSE, The News Journal
Posted Friday, May 4, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “Beehives at the University of Delaware in Newark as well as two private beekeeping operations — one in Dover and another in Seaford — have experienced losses of as much as 90 percent of their bee colonies this spring. Scientists aren’t sure what is causing the disappearance and death of these bees but have linked the symptoms to “colony collapse disorder.”
“We first started noticing losses in 2006. We were hoping that it was just a fall occurrence, but it has continued into the spring,” said Dewey Caron, a University of Delaware entomologist who is studying bees to understand the mysterious deaths.”
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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21660192-1702,00.html
“Bee killer parasite could wipe out crops”
By Jane Bunce
May 02, 2007 06:27pm
Article from: AAP
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “But countries, including the US, the United Kingdom and New Zealand, are experiencing major crop losses as a mite kills off their commercial and wild bees.”