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Note #1: If you are looking for the Pollinator Partnership recently featured in Organic Gardening magazine, their correct address is http://www.pollinator.org. Enjoy your visit there. (When you finish there, y'all are welcome to come back and visit here awhile.) |
Note #2: We were pioneers in bringing attention to the pollinator situation, but I apologize that this page has gotten somewhat stale; as my life has taken a different turn lately. However, I intend to come back here as soon as I am able and upgrade this with a lot of great new information and even more new photos. Please be patient. Thanks...Pollinator Now we return you to the previously scheduled programming... |
At left: Poorly pollinated blackberry. The ovules in the center were not fertilized by a pollen grain, so they did not develop drupelets. The most likely cause was insufficient bee visits. To enlarge and compare with a well pollinated berry click on the image |
Pollination
Beekeepers
(Apicultores que alquilan las colmenas de la abeja para la polinización)
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Features:
1.
Managing Pollination, (Index to pollination management resources)2. Gallery One: Index to onsite images: Flowers and their visitors: bees, bee mimics, beetles, hymenopterans, flies and others. (Note: images are copyrighted, restrictions apply to use.)
A visual examination of another feral colony for parasites: a pictorial
Movies! Yup, we got 'em...sounds too, if your computer can handle it...dancing bees, piping queens, chewing paper wasps... (Because of space limitation, these are at another domain)
3. Kid's Good Bug Page (Off site and under construction) Help for homework and school projects
4. Photographic Plant/Pollinator Database Many such databases exist (some are linked here) but this one features photos of plants and their pollinators, with notes.
5. Side Trips: Themes related to pollination
Threats to Pollination:
New Parasites Pesticide Misuse
Worldwide
Great
Pics from Penn State of diseases, parasites, etc.
Saving Pollinators: Forgotten Pollinators Campaign
Pollination
Fact Sheet from the Ecological Society of America
Competition
between native and introduced bees? California and Costa Rica
NEW!
Imidacloprid (Gaucho):
New Threat to North American pollinators? The French say it's been killing their
bees; now it is coming to Canada and the US. Proposed EPA Label Changes for
Pesticides that impact bees
Saving
Pollinators
What is modern beekeeping like? Learn how a migratory commercial beekeeper works to pollinate crops and make honey at Kutik's Honey Farm Lots of photos!
The Sao Paulo
declaration on Pollinators An
international symposium
Biodiversity and Food
Security
Bees and Genetic Manipulation:
some resources
Wildflower Pollination
(New section, Nov. '00) Papers, etc., published on the internet
Endangered
Species: Loss of habitat or loss of pollinators
Jan's "Of Bees, Beekeepers and Food" the story of our loss of bees, and the effect on our food For educators, students, laymen: folks who want to know the issues, but not the technical stuff.
Commercial Horticulture
Links: Crop by Crop
Home Horticulture
Links: Gobs o'Gardening Stuff, Backyard Fruit, etc.
Entomology Resources
Beekeeper Resources
Especially for beginning beekeepers
Coming soon: NEW SECTION - Biodiversity links and resources
Coming soon: NEW SECTION - Genetic Modification (GMO plants) and bees
FAQS:
(Frequently Asked Questions)
Will my
cucumbers, squash and melons cross pollinate and be ruined?
I'd like to keep bees, but I'm
afraid of being stung...
Haaalp! I've been
stung by a "bee." (It's
almost impossible to exclude all stinging insects from your home
environment, but here are some
suggestions that might help.) Fact
and fiction: Identify and know about bees, yellow
jackets, hornets, allergies, control, and more
Growing apples from
seeds FAQ
"Attracting Pollinators"
-a flawed concept!
"Are orchard mason bees
better pollinators than honeybees?"
Poison Ivy - Honey
connection? My own experience (A potential research topic,
any grad students?)
Pollinators Are Not
Interchangeable
The first prerequisite to enhancing pollination is to know the preferences of the
pollinator and the efficiency of the various pollinators for each plant species. There
have been numerous starts at building a pollinator/plant database. Such a database would
be a good starting point, but a comprehensive one doesn't exist, so far as we know.
Here is a wildflower/pollinator
database by Adalbert Goertz, Colorado naturalist.
Here is also a Pollinator Diversity
Study you can do.
"Killer Bees" can be gentle, if there are beekeepers who can breed from the best.. Visit South African Bee Breeder Barry Sargeant to see him working without a veil...and still alive!
Slide Shows
Hiving an
Easy Swarm
Transferring Wild Bees into
a Hive
SC State Fair Pollination
Exhibit: Blue ribbon winner!
Down for the Count?
Are honeybees disappearing from North America?
Pollinators
in Peril CNN news story
Pollinator
Decline: Theme of current issue of Conservation Ecology Good
articles on native bees, ignores honeybees and migratory beekeepers who have helped fill
in the gap.
The
Economic Impacts of Pollinator Declines An important article by
Kevan and Phillips U of Guelph, ONT
Bee Genera of the World The latest classification of the bees
Hymenoptera: the
order of insects responsible for the bulk of insect pollination, includes bees wasps,
hornets, yellow jackets. Most of the focus of this page is on bees and practical
pollination information, but hornets and wasps do also play a smaller role. These
creatures are also important for pest insect control, as well. For more on identifying
hymenoptera, links, scientific papers, etc.
Wild
Bees and Other Pollinators
Bee Stings help save North Carolina woman's life - Her battle with Multiple Sclerosis
Feed the Birds! Birds and bees really are connected!
Canaries in the Mine? Bees as sensitive indicators of environmental pollution
Pollination: Evolutionist's Dilemma
Evolution vs Creation
Comments welcome
Faith
of a Scientist: A Christian evolutionary view
Comments welcome
6. More Beneficial Insects (and Other Helpful Creatures) Pollinators aren't the only good bugs.
Other Beneficial Insects and Creatures (Vendor list: see below)
7. News and Events: a bulletin board
8. Commercial Links (For info only, no endorsement implied)
Honeybee:
Buy/sell board Reader Ads: Bees and equipment for
sale. Note: We do not attempt to provide a list of commercial honeybee
suppliers for purchase, as there are many such lists available. One we recommend can be
found at Bee Source. Also
check Beekeeper Resources
here for more leads to links
Pollination Beekeepers
Pollination service (beehive leasing for
pollination)
Help
wanted/help available Employment in the
Pollination/beekeeping world
Other Bees and Pollinators:
Alternative Pollinator Vendors
Vendors
of Beneficial Insects
Pollen Vendors
Pheromones (Chemical
Bee Attractants)
Tools
and Equipment for pollination
8. Essays
Hate 'em or Love 'em? a brief essay
I've got no worms in my 'maters! Without poisons! In South Carolina!
9. Fun Stuff
10. Search The Pollination Home Page with Google:La abeja haragana de Horacio Quiroga - (Lazy bee), a folk tale from Uruguay (in Spanish)
This page is dedicated to the One who created this earth, then entered it to redeem it.
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Meet the Webmaster
Miscellaneous
Google: A Search Engine that sorts out most of
the junk
Clean Search: another way to
avoid net trash
South Carolina Links
General Agricultural Info, Search Engines
and Portal Sites
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