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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/blogs/bees/national-pollinators-week-55062501<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h2><b><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>6.25.2008
9:12 AM<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>
<h1><b><font size=6 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:24.0pt'>It's
National Pollinator Week. Go Pollinate Something!<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<p class=subhead><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Or, Take a Look at These Tips for Aiding the Beleaguered Bees<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>We
haven’t been ignoring National Pollinator Week this year (June
22–28), but there’s so much to take in that it took this long to
get it together. If you haven’t yet, take a look at their website here <a
href="http://www.pollinator.org/" target="_new">pollinator.org</a> for all the
information. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This
group has been instrumental in gaining attention to the status of all
pollinators – not just honey bees – and the precarious situations
many, if not most, of them are in due to changes in their environment,
pesticide problems, habitat loss and the like. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>To help
reverse some of these trends, the Pollinator people have put together a wealth
of information that you can use, whether you are a teacher, a naturalist or
just concerned about what’s going on in the world outside ... both with
honey bees and their problems, and all pollinators. Take a look at these features...
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><img
border=0 width=360 height=260 id="_x0000_i1029"
src="cid:image002.jpg@01C8D6C2.59713510" alt="pollinator stamp" class=img div=""
align=center><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-style:italic'>Photo: Zhang Bo / Istock </span></font></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span
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style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>The digital library on pollinator
information including info on beekeeping, pesticides, general pollinator
education, farming and ranching, colony collapse disorder, gardening and public
lands. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><font
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>National Pollinator Week, with all
its festivities (that’s this week, by the way), including posters, a
garden wheel, a reception in D.C. (though most of us can’t make that, a
podcast will be available, we’re told), a host of <a
href="http://www.pollinator.org/pollinator_week_2008.htm" target="_new">activities
listed for every state</a> and more handouts and free information sheets than
we can list here. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><font
size=2 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span
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</span></font></span></span></font><![endif]>And what I like most are the free <a
href="http://www.pollinator.org/guides.htm" target="_new">Pollinator Friendly
Planting Guides</a> that you can download. Simply put in your zip code and out
comes a booklet that shows what to plant where you live so you can help all
kinds of pollinators. I suggest downloading all of them, because the
information on each is incredible. And they are free.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>They also
provide a wealth of information on pollinator health that has been published in
other magazines and outlets so you can keep up with butterflies, moths, bats,
plus others that help keep pollen moving from here to there to make certain
plants keep making seeds. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>All this,
of course, is sponsored by someone, and this year the list is long, including
the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign, and the Pollinator
Partnership. These groups have been instrumental in assisting the beekeeping
community in making congressional contacts seeking funding, in working with
corporate sponsors to support Colony Collapse Disorder research (Häagen-Dazs
ice cream, Burt’s Bees, Honey Brown beer and others). And there are a lot
of others this year. <br>
<img border=0 width=460 height=293 id="_x0000_i1030"
src="cid:image003.jpg@01C8D6C2.59713510" alt="pollinator stamp" class=img div=""
align=center><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>If you
recall, when National Pollinator Week was celebrated last year, there were a
set of stamps issued showing all manner of pollinators ... honey bees not
included. We <a
href="http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/blogs/bees/3015"
target="_new">noted that slight</a> last year, but not in a big way because all
in all, these good folks are working in the right direction. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This year
they produced an <a href="http://www.pollinator.org/free_items.htm"
target="_new">incredible poster</a> suitable for framing (it’s big ...
30" x 24") that shows pollinators by the score, but this year a lot
more ... including the European Honey Bee, Morrison’s Bumble Bee, the
Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee, the Squash Bee, the Blue Orchard Bee, and the
Southeastern Blueberry Bee, plus an incredible array of fruits and vegetables
these insects pollinate. Sponsoring this work are the U.S. Forest Service, the
North American Pollinator Protection Campaign, the U.S. Department of the
Interior Bureau of Land Management, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the National
Park Service, the U.S. Geological Survey Group, the PCA, the Wildlife Habitat
Council, the National Resource Conservation Council, Bert’s Bees, the
National Gardening Association, USDA CREES, and the U.S. Botanic Garden. (you
can get this poster for a mere $5.00 shipping fee ... it’s worth every
penny ... get 2 or 3 for your school and library). <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<h2><b><font size=5 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>A
Colony Collapse Disorder Update<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Paul
Bedard, the Whispers Columnist from <em><i><font face="Times New Roman">U.S.
News and World Report,</font></i></em> sends along the following information
for us, too. Paul, if you recall, informed us about the <a
href="http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/blogs/bees/colony-collapse-disorder-55042901"
target="_new">great bee guy in the bee lab, tinkering away</a>, finding a
solution to Colony Collapse Disorder a while back. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>There are
a good many legislators who have stood behind all of the CCD support and pushed
the funding that may, eventually, come from Congress to support pollinators,
but more importantly (to me, anyway) to get moving on solving the Colony
Collapse Disorder problem. To find out what’s going on, exactly, an
Oversight Committee from the Ag Dept’s Horticulture and Organic
subcommittee is holding a hearing on Thursday at 10:00 a.m. this week. They
will be addressed by Ed Knipling, ARS (Agricultural Research Service)
Administrator, Maryann Frazier from <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Penn</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">State</st1:PlaceType> and Dr. Keith Delaplane, from
the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Univ.</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Georgia</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>, coordinator of the $4.1 million
grant just issued to study CCD. The first of many, we hope, now that the farm
bill has passed. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A second
panel will address the committee that includes Steve Godlin, a <st1:State
w:st="on">California</st1:State> beekeeper, David Mendes, the vice president of
the American Beekeeping Federation, Ed Flanagan, President and CEO from Jasper
Wyman & Son in <st1:State w:st="on">Maine</st1:State>, producer of wild
blueberries, and a cucumber grower from <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">North
Carolina</st1:place></st1:State>. All of these people, I’m sure you
realize, absolutely need or make their living from honey bees, and I’m
quite certain will fill in the committee on not only what’s going on, but
what hasn’t been going on relative to funding, and what still needs to be
done. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>A third
group will fill in the committee on other aspects of the situation and include
representatives from <a
href="http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/eat-safe/haagen-dazs-honey-bees-44062508"
target="_new">Häagen-Dazs ice cream</a>, Burt’s Bees and the Pollinator
Partnership. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The
results of this testimony will be available, I believe, as a podcast later.
We’ll try and find that recording. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>It’s
National Pollinator Week! Go! Celebrate! Pollinate something!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p id=findthisarticle><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Find this article at: </span></font></b><a
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