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Category Archives: miniculture
Gardens for wildlife
Here in Britain the gardening season looks good so far. Here’s an article about gardening for bees and other wildlife. Untidy gardeners like me are good gardeners for wildlife. It’s now a year since hedgehogs (Erinaceus europaeus) bred in my … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, horticulture, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arthropod, breeding, bumblebee, clover, conservation, ecosystem, Europe, flower, foraging, fruit, garden, gardener, green manure, hedgehog, herb, hibernation, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, invertebrate, leaf, mammal, nest, plant_dicot, rat, salad, vegetable, vertebrate, weed, wild bee, wild food, wild pollinator, wildlife
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Is the GM crops war over? What’s next?
GM (genetically modified, genetically engineered) crops are a fact of life by now. In our interconnected world (remember the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, which might be finalised soon) I think that people who oppose GM crops may have … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, fish, food, horticulture, miniculture, money and trade
Tagged Africa, America, aquaculture, Asia, biodiversity, biotechnology, Bt crop, commodity crop, crop diversity, development, Dow, entomoculture, Europe, evolution, farmer, feed, finfish, fisher, foraging, genetic modification, hunting, insect, International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications, invertebrate, Monsanto, neglected crop, pesticide resistance, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, population, Roundup Ready crop, shellfish, soya, staple food, superbug, superweed, Swaminathan_Monkombu, trade, tradition, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, vertebrate, wild food
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TTIP: Syngenta calls for harmonized safety standards
John Atkin is the Chief Operating Officer at the chemical and biotech giant Syngenta. Here’s a report showing an interview with Mr Atkin, in which he tells us how the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is great news. One … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food, knowledge transfer, miniculture
Tagged America, arthropod, Bayer, development, Europe, farmer, food, food safety, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, insecticide, law, neonicotinoid, pesticide, pollination, research, seed, sustainable, Syngenta, thiamethoxam, trade, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, wild bee, yield
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Harvard study links pesticides to bee deaths
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in honeybees (Apis mellifera) can be linked with low-dose insecticides. Philip Case at the UK magazine Farmers Weekly tells us about research in the States, where CCD is a huge problem. This is a serious matter … Continue reading
Posted in knowledge transfer, miniculture
Tagged academia, America, apiculture, arthropod, Bayer, behaviour, clothianidin, colony collapse disorder, Europe, honeybee, hymenopteran, imidacloprid, insect, insecticide, law, microsporidian, neonicotinoid, Nosema ceranae, parasite, pesticide, pollination, research, Syngenta, thiamethoxam
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Killing bees in Oregon
Oregon may not be the best place to be a bee. Last year, 50 000 bumblebees (Bombus sp.) died there in a parking lot. Trees had been sprayed with pesticide. It turned out that the spray was dinotefuran, one of … Continue reading
Posted in ecology, miniculture
Tagged America, apiculture, arthropod, bumblebee, car, dinotefuran, Europe, honeybee, hymenopteran, insecticide, law, neonicotinoid, pesticide, plant_gymnosperm, roadside
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Image of the Week: Varroa Parasitic Mite
argylesock says… Varroa mites are bad news for bees. This is the third of three articles about pollinators, from the Wellcome Trust blog, which I’m passing on today.
Posted in agriculture, ecology, food, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arachnid, arthropod, conservation, crop, disease, emerging disease, farmer, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, mite, parasite, pesticide, plant_dicot, pollination, research, Varroa destructor
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Feature: Protecting the pollinators part 2 – bees and disease
argylesock says… Here’s the second of three articles about pollinators, from the Wellcome Trust blog, which I’m passing on today.
Posted in agriculture, ecology, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arachnid, arthropod, bacterium, bumblebee, conservation, data, deformed wing virus, dipteran, disease, disease transmission, emerging disease, fungus, habitat loss, honeybee, hoverfly, hymenopteran, insect, insecticide, mite, miticide, Nosema ceranae, parasite, pesticide, pollination, research, scientist, Varroa destructor, Varroa destructor virus-1, vector, virus
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Feature: Protecting the pollinators part 1 – bees and ecology
argylesock says… We need bees and other pollinators. We really, really need them. Here’s the first of three articles about pollinators, from the Wellcome Trust blog, which I’ll pass on today.
Posted in agriculture, ecology, food, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arachnid, arthropod, beetle, biodiversity, bumblebee, coleopteran, conservation, crop, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, dipteran, disease, ecosystem, habitat loss, honeybee, hoverfly, hymenopteran, insect, mite, pesticide, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, pollination, research, seed, Varroa destructor, virus, wasp, wild bee, wild pollinator
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Pollen angels: The E.U.’s ban on bee-killing pesticides begins. Will it help?
argylesock says… Here in Europe our ban on neonics was bitterly fought. It was even opposed by our UK Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, Owen Paterson. Now it’s in force but as Heather Smith says in … Continue reading
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Tagged arthropod, bumblebee, clothianidin, conservation, crop, Europe, honeybee, hymenopteran, imidacloprid, insect, insecticide, law, neonicotinoid, Paterson_Owen, pesticide, plant_dicot, politics, pollination, thiamethoxam, wild bee
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Oregon Bumblebee Kill Resolution
Originally posted on Living With Insects Blog:
Bumblebee Pollinating a Flower The case of the massive (50,000) bumblebee kill in Oregon has been settled. The court ruled that the bumblebees were killed by improper pesticide application. The pesticide, dinotefutan, was…
Posted in ecology, horticulture, miniculture
Tagged alien species, America, arthropod, bumblebee, conservation, dinotefuran, flower, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, insecticide, law, neonicotinoid, pesticide, plant_dicot, plant_gymnosperm, pollination, tree, urban park, wild bee
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