

Online pollinator content: engaging with bees while we're social distancing
If you’re looking to learn more about beekeeping or pollinators in general, the links below provide great resources. The first three links provide reading materials and include an online pollinators program provided by Michigan State University, the fourth link provides pollinator-related activities geared towards kids, and the last link leads to a site with citizen science opportunities related to pollinators. Reading Resources If you’re looking to stay indoors but would lik


Should you keep bees?
This post was originally published on the pollinators.msu.edu website: https://pollinators.msu.edu/resources/beekeepers/shouldyoukeepbees/ In Michigan, we have a lovely rare bird called the Kirtland Warbler. It used to be endangered, but with decades of habitat restoration programs and breeding efforts the population is now in better health. If you wanted to help the Kirtland Warbler, you would help put in habitat (Jack pine forests), or you would donate to a conservation fu


Selecting the right plants to support bees
Interest in pollinator conservation is growing. Not only within academia, but also in a number of disciplines that deal with land management in one way or another. One common theme that unites many of these individual communities involves supporting bees by increasing the availability of flowering plants in the environment. In theory this is great, but in practice, the choices made prior, during, and after the implementation of wildflower habitat can influence which wildflowe