North American Bumble Bee Officially Added to Endangered Species List
Alex Pietrowski – This is the first bumble bee to be protected under the endangered species act.
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The Co-Evolution of Bees and Flowers: An Electric Symbiosis Not to Be Interrupted with Pesticide Chemicals
Christina Sarich, Staff Writer Waking Times If you are still spraying your nursery flowers and plants with neonicotinoid insecticides, you are likely interrupting an age-old dance carried out between bees and flowers. Not only are bees dying from the use of these dangerous chemicals, but the act is interrupting a long and beneficial history between …
Massive Bumblebee Die-Off Prompts Temporary Pesticide Ban in Oregon
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times In what may be the single largest mass bumblebee die-off on record, some 50,000 plus bees were recently found littering the parking lot of a Target store in Wilsonville, Oregon recently after a landscaping company sprayed surrounding trees with the insecticide Safari. Concerning shoppers and the community, the event …