[Pollinator] Pollinator Digest, Vol 1295, Issue 1

[Mary Jo Sutton]

I've noticed lots of "bee hotels" being made by artists and are installed
in public gardens, including our museum. Does anyone know if there is any
research on the spread of disease or increased mortality associated with
these high density high rise structures, especially after the first year?

Mary Jo


Mary Jo Sutton
NSF Co-PI/Special Projects and Developer
Natural Sciences Gallery Renovation

Oakland Museum of California
Oakland, CA 94607
(519) 318-8593
MJSutton at museumca.org



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> From: "Matthew Shepherd" <mdshepherd at xerces.org>
> Subject: [Pollinator] Bumble bee on Endangered Species Chocolate bar!
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> Hi everyone,
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> Today I discovered that the filled bar from Endangered Species Chocolate
> (http://chocolatebar.com/) featuring a bumble bee has finally reached the
> stores! You may remember almost a year ago there was a social media
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> to select two new animals for ESC?s wrappers. The two winners of that vote
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> The bumble bee bar is ?Blueberry Vanilla Cr?me Filled Dark Chocolate.? Not
> only is it yummy?we had the privilege of tasting it in advance!?but it
> supports conservation of the rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis).
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> out the wrapper and you?ll find a profile of the bee. In addition, the
> Xerces Society is proud to be included in ESC?s 10% GiveBack program, so
> purchasing the bar will help support conservation efforts for the bee.
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> From: Peter Bernhardt <bernhap2 at slu.edu>
> Subject: [Pollinator] Fwd: Nature vol 506 pg 364-366 Feb 20, 2014
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> That big paper on bumblebee and honeybee disease associations has finally
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