Bee Downtown creating America’s largest honeybee corridor
AGDAILY Reporters ·
September 4, 2019
Bee Downtown is creating the largest honeybee corridor to rebuild the health of the bees responsible for pollinating 70 of the world’s top 100 crops.
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Bee Downtown becomes the buzz of the city
Jaclyn Krymowski ·
November 14, 2018
The innovative Bee Downtown brings agriculture to the cityscape on pollinators’ wings, and gets urbanites caring about the industry again.
12 interesting facts about bees
Markie Hageman ·
July 27, 2018
Bees are crucial to the agricultural industry. You may already know that a sizable amount of food we eat is because of their crop pollination (though the exact percentage is the point of much debate), but there are many facts that people aren’t aware of. Here are 12 interesting facts about bees, nature’s first farmer: […]
Michigan State helping to point pollination in the right direction
Brian Boyce ·
July 26, 2016
Efforts to combat honeybee colony collapse disorder are buzzing along as researchers across the country investigate integrated pollination strategies. An expansive 15-institute, 50-scientist and 100-farm program, the Integrated Crop Pollination Project led by Michigan State University entomology professor Rufus Isaacs has been cranking out research since it launched in 2014 with an $8.6 million grant […]