Study reveals effective strategies to promote pollinator diversity and function in dense urban environments like Paris.
Tag - Bees
Dale Maylea
Want to save the bees? Pay attention to pathogens and flowers
Researchers at UMass Amherst deploy fluorescent paint, pipettes, tents, tweezers and scissors to trace three-way connection between plants, pathogens and bees
Eurekalert
Drought damages a plant’s perfume
Bees may be using their sense of smell to detect and avoid stressed plants.
Alun Salt
What makes bees feel at home in the city?
A study of the bees of Toronto aimed to uncover what factors help or hinder urban pollinators.
Bees, honey and Agave in the northern sierra of La Barca, Jalisco
You may have tried tequila or mezcal. But have you ever wondered what is happening in the fields where the Agave plants grow?
Elizabeth García
The colour of background vegetation reveals how bees see flowers
Studying how bees perceive flowers gives insight into how pollinators have influenced flower evolution.
Andrea Romero
How will plants cope with fewer pollinators?
A recent paper highlights a critical research gap, and reveals the potential for finding new data in old places.
Rachael Olliff-Yang
Flying insects plummet
Where have all the flower-pollinating insects have gone?
Nigel Chaffey
Reproductive traits affect the rescue of valuable and endangered multipurpose tropical trees
Conservation strategies are urgently needed for widely used tree species. Increasing numbers of species are threatened by overexploitation and their recovery might be poor due to low reproductive success and poor...
AoBPLANTS
Conservation in the City
A new article argues that conservation shouldn't be left to the countryside. There are major impacts to be made looking at pollinators in the city.
Are all plant pollinators as busy as a bee?
There’s an article recently published in Psyche, that might be of interest to botanists Busy Bees: Variation in Insect Flower-Visiting Rates across Multiple Plant Species. It’s not a surprise that there are...
How orchids feed specialized bee pollinators
A survey of flowers of 16 species of Lockhartia determines that all have elaiophores (oil glands) of the trichomal type.
AJ Cann
More bad news for bees, now plant viruses are after them
Colony Collapse Disorder is bad news, even if you hate honey as much as I do. Disappear honey bees doesn’t just mean less honey, they pollinate many plants. The value of honey bee pollination is billions of...
Another reason not to poison ivy
Saving the bees is a popular cause, and with good reason. They’re essential for pollinating many important crops. However, we don’t always coördinate our aims and our actions. There are concerns that various...
