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Last night, I was honored to facilitate the 22nd Annual Rachel Carson Forum held at The Evergreen State College and hosted by the Masters of Environmental Science Association, MESA. The panel discussion was on the “Social, Political, and Ecological Implications of Pesticide Use in our Society Today.” Below are my opening remarks. As a [...] Last night was great for TV bees. Quite by accident I stumbled across two pieces, one right after the other. The first, on Oregon Field Guide, was about the loss of the western bumble bee and how farmers are beginning to plant for wild pollinators to take over for the ravaged honey bee. Scott [...] Pesticide residues are known to appear frequently in wax combs. Since most pesticides are either lipophilic or dissolved in oil-based carriers, it is no surprise that we find them residing in beeswax. These chemicals can be brought into the hive by the bees themselves in the form or contaminated pollen and nectar, or they [...] . . . and ticked me off no end. Although I spend vast amounts of time and energy preaching the dangers of indiscriminate pesticide use, last week the FHA forced me to hire an exterminator and spray for non-existent anobiid beetles. I argued and pleaded, but no amount of logic had any effect on [...] In the past couple of years I’ve spoken to a number of groups about bees, bee habitat, and pesticides. But on Thursday night I was once again invited to present my master’s thesis to a batch of graduate students in the Master of Environmental Studies program at The Evergreen State College. These students are [...] The best way to make yourself into a target these days, is to say something negative about urban beekeeping. You may as well paint a bull’s eye on your beesuit. And those yellowjackets I’ve been complaining about? They can’t hold a candle to an angry urban beekeeper. Hear that? Those are arrows zinging by [...] Today I’m giving you an assignment. I want you to read a blog post at Scientific American’s Compound Eye by Alex Wild. This article, more succinct than I could ever write, is a concise summary of why there is no such thing as organic honey. A honey producer or distributor can put just about [...] I’m frequently asked if I support a ban on all pesticides. The truth is, my answer is no. I’m not against all pesticides. What’s more, I am actually for some of them. For example, I’m not against most antibiotics used in medicine. Penicillin, for example, has saved my hide more than once, for which [...] Entombed pollen is pollen that is stored in a honey bee hive and encapsulated under a layer of propolis. The phenomenon was first described in a paper by Dennis vanEngelsdorp et al and published in the Journal of Invertebrate Pathology (2009). In that paper, the authors described cells of stored pollen that were covered [...] |
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