<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div>Wired News, March 30, 2012 (by Brandon Kiem):</div><div><br></div><div>"A controversial type of pesticide linked to declining global bee
populations appears to scramble bees’ sense of direction, making it hard
for them to find home. Starved of foragers and the pollen they carry,
colonies produce fewer queens, and eventually collapse…"</div><div><br></div><div>Full article is available here:</div><div><br></div><div>http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/03/neonicotinoids-bee-collapse/</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div><div><div><div>Eric Mӓder</div><div>Assistant Pollinator Program Director</div><div> The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation</div><div>Assistant Professor of Extension</div><div> University of Minnesota, Department of Entomology</div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b>The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">1971 – 2011: Forty Years of Conservation!</p></div><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><b>We have moved!<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">628 NE Broadway Suite 200, Portland, OR 97232, USA</p></div><div>eric@xerces.org</div><div>Tel: (503) 232-6639 ext. 106</div><div>Toll free: 1-855-232-6639 ext. 106</div><div>Cell: (503) 989-3649</div><div>Skype: eric_mader_xerces_society</div><div>(日本語でどうぞ)</div><div><br></div><div>Find all the information you need to conserve pollinator habitat at: www.xerces.org/pollinator-resource-center/</div><div><br></div><div>The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is an international nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitat.</div><div><br></div><div>To join the Society, make a contribution, or read about our work, please visit www.xerces.org.</div><div><br></div><div>NEW BOOK NOW AVAILABLE:</div><div>Attracting Native Pollinators. Protecting North America’s Bees and Butterflies</div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>