By Helen Jukes, Dark Mountain Project
Some days I can’t tell if honeybees are coming or going. In a sense, they’re everywhere – collecting on our shelves, decorating our homes. And yet, elsewhere, out there, where the real bees live, we’re told there are losses and declines and last month I heard a new word, insectageddon.
By Carrie Foulkes, The Dark Mountain Project
In considering the Sun Hive alongside my personal experiences of distress, I do not mean to use the bees as a metaphor, to plunder nature for her poetry. Instead I wish to suggest that our reductive attitudes towards both bees and human health may be symptomatic of a prevailing mindset of exploitation and control.
By Daniela Frechero, Monica Pelliccia, Adelina Zarlenga, Andrea Lucio, New Internationalist
Parthiban is not the only one to recognize the high value of pollinators in improving the crop production, which in turn improves the quality of life, nutrition and well-being of the Indian people.
By Lindsey Konkel, Ensia
Large-scale landscape change — loss of wildflower-rich prairies to crop monoculture or conversion of open lands to suburban development, for instance — is a threat to pollinators and may play a major role in declines by making it harder for bees and other pollinators to find a meal.
By Karen Briner, Seedstock
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By Christian Schwägerl, Yale Environment 360
Insect populations are declining dramatically in many parts of the world, recent studies show. Researchers say various factors, from monoculture farming to habitat loss, are to blame for the plight of insects, which are essential to agriculture and ecosystems.
By Janet McGarry, Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture
Imagine a world without strawberries, apples, chocolate, coffee, squash, or almonds.
By Christina Selby, Ensia
For centuries beehives have been part of the architecture of mountain homes here, built into the thick outside walls.
By Claire Schosser, Living Low in the Lou
Now it’s time to share with you my plans for the 2016 garden.
By Robin Horton, Yardfarmers blog
Placing an insect hotel in the garden increases the chances that beneficial insects will naturally visit your garden.