Fighting Climate Change with Bee-utiful Pollinator Gardens

Malia Reiss — May 09, 2024 - 1:44pm

From daisies and lavender to sunflowers and orange blossoms, flower gardens not only result in beautiful table centerpieces, bragging rights and a joyful hobby. They can also be hugely beneficial to local pollinators and, by close extension, food security and biodiversity.

Genome Sequencing Shows Climate Barrier to Spread of Africanized Bees

Andy Fell — October 21, 2020 - 10:20am

Since the 1950s, “Africanized” honeybees have spread north and south across the Americas until apparently coming to a halt in California and northern Argentina. Now genome sequencing of hundreds of bees from the northern and southern limits shows a gradual decline in African ancestry across hundreds of miles, rather than an abrupt shift.

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Fighting Climate Change with Bee-utiful Pollinator Gardens

Genome Sequencing Shows Climate Barrier to Spread of Africanized Bees