Archive for February, 2009

Sausalito Team Wins Häagen-Dazs-UC Davis Honey Bee Haven Design Competition

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Sausalito Team Wins Häagen-Dazs-UC Davis Honey Bee Haven Design Competition
http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/news/honeybeehavenwinner.html
The Sausalito-based Sibbett Group created a series of interconnected gardens with such names as “Honeycomb Hideout,” “Nectar Nook” and “Pollinator Patch” to win the international bee-friendly garden design competition, a gift to the University of California, Davis, from Häagen-Dazs.

What honeybees want to “eat” and when they want to eat it, in Maine

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

In October I went to an interesting talk at the Cumberland County Beekeepers Association.  It featured a a retired Biologist (and beekeeper named Matt Scott) who spoke about “Bee Pasturage” and had a slide show that showed a number of the different examples.
He also shared a number of publications that he thought would be [...]