The Making of a Bee Documentary
Among the many thousand colonies I have seen in the past weeks, this one stood out: It was late morning on a sunny day. Bees from the other hives were happily going about their business, as were the surviving bees in this hive. But in front of the entrance, there were these foragers, laden with [...]
Thanks to @imkerplatform for pointing me to this beautiful infographic by FFunction! (click image to enlarge) The one objection I would have is the title – fortunately, extinction is not yet an issue…
Gestern gab’s bei den Kollegen von “W wie Wissen” im Ersten eine interessante Sendung zum Thema Artenschutz. Schöner Film über die Bienen von Ingo Herbst und eine besonders liebevolle Studio-Deko!! Wer’s verpasst hat: hier noch einmal der Teil über das Bienensterben zum Nach-Sehen und Nach-Lesen.
Canada and the US have about 50 species of native bumblebees. For five of them, a rapid decline has been observed since the 1990s. Three species — Bombus affinis, B. terricola, and B. occidentalis — will now be submitted to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species (cf NatureNews: [...]
I was putting together a list of the coverage of and comments on the recent paper by Bromenshenk et al. in PLoS ONE on new insights concerning the causes of CCD and I thought I might as well put the list up here, too. So, in no particular order: The original paper: Iridovirus and Microsporidian [...]
Typisch für die Schweiz: der Schweizer Kasten (eine Art “Bienenschrank”, auch Hinterbehandlungsbeute genannt). In diesen Kästen sind die Waben sind nicht wie in den meisten Magazinen von oben zugänglich, sondern von hinten. Normalerweise stehen die Schweizer Kästen gut geschützt in einem Bienenhaus – und nach einem Blick aus dem Fenster versteht man auch sofort warum! [...]
