Radar Antennae Show Disease, Pesticides Are Harming Bees' Navigation
"Honey bees are being fitted with tiny radar antennae to find how disease and pesticides are effecting the insects as they hunt for food."
Source: Telegraph, 07/29/2013
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Oregon Temporarily Bans Insecticide After 50,000 Bumblebees Die
"In response to a massive bumblebee die-off blamed on pesticides, the Oregon Department of Agriculture issued a temporary restriction Thursday on 18 insecticides with the active ingredient dinotefuran."
Source: Portland Oregonian, 06/28/2013
"Honeybee Food May Contribute To U.S. Colony Collapse -- Study"
"Bee keepers' use of corn syrup and other honey substitutes as bee feed may be contributing to colony collapse by depriving the insects of compounds that strengthen their immune systems, according to a study released on Monday."
Source: Reuters, 06/04/2013
"Long-Lived Insects Raise Prime Riddle"
"Drivers who end up behind John Cooley this week will quickly lose their patience. Cruising around the eastern United States with his car window open, he slows down or stops every few hundred metres, cocks an ear and taps on a data-logger strapped into the passenger seat."
Source: Nature, 05/29/2013
"How Pesticides Pushed Cockroaches Into Rapid Evolution"
"In the 1980s, manufactures began making cockroach baits that combined sweet glucose with deadly insecticides. By 1993, many cockroach populations somehow developed an aversion to the bait. Now, 20 years later, scientists finally understand how the roaches beat these traps."
Source: io9, 05/24/2013
"Anglers Follow the Bugs to the Trout"
"WARM SPRINGS, Ore. — The sky was not exactly dark in a blotting-out-the-sun sense, but the salmon flies were certainly thick above central Oregon’s Lower Deschutes River. Thousands of female specimens circled 30 feet above the water’s surface, preparing to descend and drop their eggs. Occasionally, a bug would spiral slowly down to the river, flutter awkwardly on the surface, then disappear in a sudden splash."
Source: NY Times, 05/13/2013
"Hoping to Save Bees, Europe to Vote on Pesticide Ban"
"PARIS -- Will Brussels try to give bees a break? In a case closely watched on both sides of the Atlantic, European officials plan to vote Friday on a proposal to sharply restrict the use of pesticides that had been implicated in the decline of global bee populations."
Source: NY Times, 03/15/2013
"Loss of Wild Pollinators Serious Threat To Crop Yields, Study Finds"
"The decline of wild bees and other pollinators may be an even more alarming threat to crop yields than the loss of honeybees, a worldwide study suggests, revealing the irreplaceable contribution of wild insects to global food production."
Source: Guardian, 03/01/2013
"Ant Study Deepens Concern About Plastic Additives"
A French scientist has published a study indicating that plastic additives called phthalates, thought to be endocrine disruptors, are widely found in one species of ants -- presumeably because they have become widespread in the environment.
Source: Green/NYT, 01/08/2013
"Worms Produce Another Kind of Gold for Growers"
"SONOMA, Calif. — Under rows of old chicken sheds, Jack Chambers has built an empire of huge metal boxes filled with cattle manure and millions of wriggling red worms."
Source: NY Times, 01/03/2013
