Our bumble bees have healthy guts!
Written on: December 21st, 2022by Michelle Hotchkiss, PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa Here in North America, bumble bees are key pollinators for both natural plant communities and ...
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On the lookout for an endangered bumble bee
Written on: August 7th, 2020by Alysha Riquier With fieldwork cancelled or pushed back for many this summer, community science became an important tool for submitting observations. Stay-at-home ...
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Down to the nitty gritty: creating the Churchill Alternative School butterfly garden
Written on: February 22nd, 2020by Berit Erickson Once I had created a successful pollinator garden of my own [see Berit’s Corner Pollinator Garden], I began to see prime locations for ...
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Special guest at the Corner Pollinator Garden
Written on: August 29th, 2019Check out this recent post by Berit Erickson about a rare and declining bee species – Yellow-banded Bumble Bee – that found her pollinator garden and ...
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Canada Day pollinators
Written on: July 12th, 2019by Sandy Garland I read about a country-wide Canada Day bioblitz and decided to forego fireworks for a day in the country trying to photograph 152 (Canada’s ...
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Bumble bee imposter
Written on: July 2nd, 2019by Sandy Garland The other day, Berit sent me a photo of a bumble bee carrying another one. She wondered about this behaviour: why? how? She wrote: “I saw what ...
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