Archive for the ‘bees’ Category
Monday, August 17th, 2009
Dear me but I've been neglecting this blog. I still need to post up the awesome tag cloud of bee-related words and ideas I gathered at Artomatic. In the meantime, here's a few links to some pretty cool bee-related stuff.
First up, there's the always awesome Tina Seamonster. You need ...
Posted in art, bees, food | No Comments »
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
Tomorrow, Monday, June 22, 2009, 10am – 12:30pm at the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum in Baird Auditorium:
To observe National Pollinator Week, Dr. Michael Ruggiero (senior scientist for the museum's Integrated Taxonomic Information System) hosts a panel of bumblebee experts to discuss the declining numbers of these important pollinators.
I'm looking forward ...
Posted in bees, educational, pollinator week, science! | No Comments »
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
"Every Third Bite" is one of the films in the Media Matters Film Festival. You can watch the entire film (it's less than 9 minutes long). Watch urban beekeepers in Manhattan and Chicago talk about keeping bees, colony collapse disorder, and why bees are important to our food supply.
The film ...
Posted in bees, movies | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Today's Washington Post has a timely article, "The Perfect Pursuit In This Urban Hive - A Growing Buzz Surrounds the Increasing Number of Capital Beekeepers."
Urban beekeepers, who prowl their rooftops in full beekeeper regalia, are becoming chic in the nation's capital, and their semi-secret society is less so, given the ...
Posted in bees | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
This year at Artomatic we're all about The Birds and the Bees. Stay tuned for more details.
Artomatic is May 29th - July 5th, 2009 at 55 M St SE (Navy Yard). Check out the website for more info.
Posted in aRtomatic, bees | No Comments »
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
Researchers are reporting on the discovery of a virus, Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus, that is moving to the top of the list of suspects as scientists work to unravel the mysterious demise of millions of bees. MSNBC Science Editor Alan Boyle has a thorough piece online reporting on these latest ...
Posted in bees, entomology | Comments Off
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
I thought I posted this while I was on vacation a few weeks ago. I guess my mind was also on vacation...On the plane to Florida, I caught up on some reading, including Elizabeth Kolbert's article, "Stung" in the August 6, 2007 issue of the New Yorker.
I found that ...
Posted in bees, podcasts | 1 Comment »