From their barbed stingers to their intimidatingly loud buzz, bees might send some people running in the opposite direction at the sight of them. Even Dana L. Church, a local researcher of animal cognition and author, had her reservations before working with bumble bees. “One of my professors that I really liked said she was looking for a research assistant that summer, so I applied … then I realized I … Continued
It is time we all befriended bees, because without them, our food supply would be in crisis.
BY MEGHAN WEATHERALL “It’s like a game of Jenga, you can move one block but what happens if it’s the wrong one or too many,” said Victoria MacPhail, co-chair at Pollination Guelph. The concern about how drastically the population of bees in Ontario has decreased didn’t start until around 10 years ago, when Dr. Sheila Colla’s bee survey was conducted for her PhD. In the early 2000s Colla revisited sites … Continued
