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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
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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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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…
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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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Massive Bee Kill Update
Originally posted on Living With Insects Blog:
Yesterday, I posted about a massive bumblebee kill in Wilsonville, Oregon. At least 25,000 bumblebees were killed. The Oregon, Department of Agriculture (ODA) has tested bees and trees at the site and confirmed…
Posted in ecology, horticulture, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arthropod, bumblebee, clothianidin, dinotefuran, flower, honeybee, hymenopteran, imidacloprid, insect, insecticide, law, neonicotinoid, pesticide, pollen, thiamethoxam, wild bee
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Bee killing isn’t only about neonics
A few weeks ago, great news! The European Union banned three ‘bee killers’ – neonicotinoid pesticides. Three neonics with the, er, catchy names clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam. The ban will come into force on 1st December this year, and it … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, horticulture, miniculture
Tagged art, arthropod, climate, clothianidin, conservation, corn, crop, dinotefuran, fipronil, flower, history, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, insecticide, law, maize, nectar, neonicotinoid, pest, pesticide, phenylpyrazole, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, poison, politics, pollen, pollination, research, seed, sunflower, thiamethoxam, wild bee
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Neonics and Asian rice
A few weeks ago three ‘bee killers’, neonicotinoid sprays and seed treatments, were temporarily banned in Europe. The banned insecticides are dinotefuran, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam. Now cereal farmers outside Europe are talking about what the neonic ban means for them. … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, horticulture, miniculture
Tagged arthropod, Asia, crop, crop rotation, crop variety, dinotefuran, ecosystem, farmer, flower, grain, hemipteran, honey, honeybee, imidacloprid, insect, insecticide, integrated pest management, knowledge, law, neonicotinoid, okra, parasitoid, pest, pesticide, planthopper, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, predator, research, rice, sesame, thiamethoxam
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Dandelions control and allelopathy
Originally posted on changinglifestyleblog:
Although where ever possible I am not a user of herbicides, dandelions could be considered an exception. Even the smallest fragment of root will regenerate and with the production of hundreds of seeds from each plant the…
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Tagged allelopathy, allotment, dandelion, flower, foraging, garden, glyphosate, herbicide, landscape, leaf, Monsanto, perennial, pesticide, plant_dicot, root, Roundup, seed, seed dispersal, taproot, weed, wild food
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Tree of the month: Alder
The moon was full last night. So according to my favourite version of the Ogham ‘tree calendar’, we’re now halfway through the Month of the Alder. You might choose to follow my ‘ogham’ tag for other posts in this series. … Continue reading
Posted in ecology
Tagged alien species, ancient woodland, bacterium, bird, bryophyte, catkin, disease, emerging disease, Europe, finfish, flood, flower, forest, fungus, garden, history, indicator species, invertebrate, land reclamation, land use, lichen, mammal, map, mollusc, moss, mould, myth, native species, ogham, pathogen, Phytophthora alni, plant_dicot, seed, seed dispersal, spring, symbiosis, tree, vertebrate, water, waterway, wetland, wildlife, woodland
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Wood anemonies
Spring is late here in the Northern Hemisphere. That’s not the reason for my lateness in writing my monthly blog posts about a tree, a crop and a butterfly, but I’ll write those when I get chance. Meanwhile the plants … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient woodland, Europe, flower, forest, indicator species, native species, perennial, plant_dicot, spring, wood anenome, woodland
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Gorse
Here’s a good article about gorse (Ulex spp.) by Chris at Woodlands.co.uk There’s gorse in bloom now, somewhere in the British Isles. There’s always gorse in bloom. As Paul Simons at the Guardian reminds us, an old proverb says that … Continue reading
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Tagged alien species, child, flower, foraging, gorse, history, invasive species, native species, shrub, weed, wild food
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