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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Finding pollinators at the FWG
Written on: June 30th, 2019by Sandy Garland, photos by Sandy and Fatiha Dia Hantchi On 29 June, our brilliant Ottawa U student colleagues, Luca Fiorindi, Mira Kindra, Alysha Riquier, and Gia ...
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Students meet pollinators II
Written on: June 19th, 2019by Luca Fiorindi, photos by Edgar Rene Hernandez and Renate Sander-Regier High school students in this year’s mini-course, “What’s the buzz? Making ...
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Plant it and they will come: my corner pollinator garden
Written on: November 27th, 2018by Berit Erickson I’m not exaggerating when I say that my pollinator garden has changed my life. How can a garden possibly do that? Well, let me tell you… ...
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Bombus – the Bumble Bee
Written on: May 18th, 2018by David Van Olst We’ve all heard of this infamous bee species. In fact, if you ask a group of children to draw a picture of a bee, most of them will instinctively ...
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Bumblebees and agricultural chemicals – recent research and surprises
Written on: December 12th, 2017by Renate Sander-Regier For years, we have been told that wild pollinators (and other insects) suffer from chemicals used in agriculture. Neonicotinoid ...
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