Dear Miss Floribunda,
I heard on NPR a talk about robot bees that will pollinate crops now that so many bees have died. This sounds like the basis for a horror movie! I can just imagine the panic when...
By Alice Carlson and Nancy Welch
In April, the University of Maryland (UMD) joined a host of other universities across the country as a Bee Campus USA affiliate, one step along the way to ensure a safe...
By Jimmy Rogers
The image of the bee is everywhere. T-shirts and coffee mugs proclaim their owners to be queen bees. Hexagons decorate honey-colored phone cases. Bakeries and coffee shops invoke the...
By Rick Borchelt
Even though this winter will rank among our warmest on record, for bumble bees it’s still been long and cold. Last fall, the colonies that had grown to hundreds of individuals over...
By Angie Latham Kozlowski
Pollinators — bees, birds, butterflies, bats, ants and even small mammals — play a key role in food production. The United Nations Environment Programme notes that of the...
By Alyssa Kraus
The City of College Park has formed a new committee as the first step in officially certifying the city as a bee-friendly community. The Pollinator Committee, so named in a Feb. 10 meeting,...
I'm at my wit's end. I've got this dippy neighbor whose garden is just a mess of weeds, and it attracts all kinds of nasty things. Well, some are nice butterflies, but others look like bees and wasps and...
Dear Miss Floribunda,
I have decided to plant a pollinator-friendly garden this year. However, I suspect that this is trickier than most of us think. For instance, I visited a honeybee sanctuary last summer...
Dear Miss Floribunda,
Now that the weather is cool and the leaves are falling, I feel pumped about cleaning up my yard before winter. I have been hearing different things, though, about whether it's a...
Dear Miss Floribunda,
I am seven years old. My daddy is helping me with this because I can't spell many words and he says I ask too many questions he can't answer. I like bees.
I like to watch them...
BY SCARLETT SALEM — Until honeybees go missing, it’s easy to forget the critical role they play in agriculture as pollinators. But for Hyattsville resident Maggie Mills, bee health is more than a passing...
BY SCARLETT SALEM — Until honeybees go missing, it’s easy to forget the critical role they play in agriculture as pollinators. But for Hyattsville resident Maggie Mills, bee health is more than a passing...
