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<DIV id=alpha-inner class=pkg><!--entry-individual--><!--title: The Epi-Log on Epicurious.com: The Buzz About National Pollinator Week --><!--description: National Pollinator Week begins today and to get people thinking about the health of bees and other pollinators, Burt's Bees teamed up with actress and director Isabella Rossellini on a series of PSAs, Burt Talks to the Bees. Bees and other pollinators like hummingbirds and butterflies are instrumental in one out of every third bite of food each of us takes, according to Laurie Davies Adams, the executive director of the Pollinator Partnership, a non-profit that focuses on the world's pollinating animals. "People want to do something, they want to help with conservation issues," Adams said at the film's premiere last week. "They're a little confused about what they can do about the big issues like global warming, but they understand bees, they understand butterflies, they understand hummingbirds, and they definitely understand chocolate, coffee, vanilla, strawberries, blueberries, cashews, almonds." Since 2006, scientists around the globe have been trying to understand Colony Collapse Disorder in the honeybee population, where adult bees in the hive fly off, never to return. Beekeepers have noticed losses of 30 percent of their hive populations annually in some areas. "The problem is that everybody hopes that there's a silver bullet, but essentially it's like cancer, there's multiple causes," said Christina Grozinger, Ph.D., the director of the Center for Pollinator Research at Penn State University. "Each individual colony that dies may be dying from something entirely different. So at this point it's thought that it's multiple factors probably acting in synergy." Those factors include exposure to pesticides and several parasites, the lack of genetic diversity among a bee colony, and bee nutrition, which is affected by the destruction of their natural habitats, she said. Burt's Bees officials approached Rossellini for the PSAs, after watching her TV shorts Green Porno and Seduce Me for the Sundance Channel. She wrote Burt Talks to the Bees, and stars as Burt Shavitz, co-founder of the company, as well as the queen Bee, a drone bee, and a worker bee. "I'm so honored that my work can be at the service of something so big as making people understand the idea of CCD, but also the habits of bees, because a lot of people don't even know about their interesting and crazy life," Rossellini said. To help the bees, pollinator advocates urge shoppers to frequent organic farms, buy local honey, and plant wildflowers that attract bees and other pollinators. The Pollinator Partnership also has a free BeeSmart app for the Android and iPhone that identifies plants beneficial to the bees in your area. --><!--thumbnail: --><!--ENTRY INDIVIDUAL-->
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<H3 class=entry-header>The Buzz About National Pollinator Week</H3>
<DIV class=tagline><SPAN style="TEXT-TRANSFORM: lowercase">by</SPAN> Sara
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<DIV class=date>on 06/18/12 at 09:00 AM</DIV>
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<P><A href="http://pollinator.org/pollinator_week_2012.htm" target=_blank
peppyCount="24" s_oc="null">National Pollinator Week</A> begins today and to get
people thinking about the health of bees and other pollinators, <A
href="http://www.burtsbees.com/" target=_blank peppyCount="25"
s_oc="null">Burt's Bees</A> teamed up with actress and director Isabella
Rossellini on a series of PSAs, <A
href="http://www.burtsbees.com/wildforbees.html" target=_blank peppyCount="26"
s_oc="null"><EM>Burt Talks to the Bees</EM></A>.</P>
<P>Bees and other pollinators like hummingbirds and butterflies are instrumental
in one out of every third bite of food each of us takes, according to Laurie
Davies Adams, the executive director of the <A href="http://www.pollinator.org/"
target=_blank peppyCount="27" s_oc="null">Pollinator Partnership</A>, a
non-profit that focuses on the world's pollinating animals.</P>
<P>"People want to do something, they want to help with conservation issues,"
Adams said at the film's premiere last week. "They're a little confused about
what they can do about the big issues like global warming, but they understand
bees, they understand butterflies, they understand hummingbirds, and they
definitely understand chocolate, coffee, vanilla, strawberries, blueberries,
cashews, almonds."</P>
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<P>Since 2006, scientists around the globe have been trying to understand Colony
Collapse Disorder in the honeybee population, where adult bees in the hive fly
off, never to return. Beekeepers have noticed losses of 30 percent of their hive
populations annually in some areas.</P>
<P>"The problem is that everybody hopes that there's a silver bullet, but
essentially it's like cancer, there's multiple causes," said Christina
Grozinger, Ph.D., the director of the <A href="http://ento.psu.edu/pollinators"
target=_blank peppyCount="29" s_oc="null">Center for Pollinator Research</A> at
Penn State University. "Each individual colony that dies may be dying from
something entirely different. So at this point it's thought that it's multiple
factors probably acting in synergy."</P>
<P>Those factors include exposure to pesticides and several parasites, the lack
of genetic diversity among a bee colony, and bee nutrition, which is affected by
the destruction of their natural habitats, she said.</P>
<P>Burt's Bees officials approached Rossellini for the PSAs, after watching her
TV shorts <A href="http://www.sundancechannel.com/greenporno/" target=_blank
peppyCount="30" s_oc="null"><EM>Green Porno</EM> and <EM>Seduce Me</EM></A> for
the Sundance Channel. She wrote <EM>Burt Talks to the Bees</EM>, and stars as
Burt Shavitz, co-founder of the company, as well as the queen Bee, a drone bee,
and a worker bee.</P>
<P>"I'm so honored that my work can be at the service of something so big as
making people understand the idea of CCD, but also the habits of bees, because a
lot of people don't even know about their interesting and crazy life,"
Rossellini said.</P>
<P>To help the bees, pollinator advocates urge shoppers to frequent organic
farms, buy local honey, and plant wildflowers that attract bees and other
pollinators. The Pollinator Partnership also has <A
href="http://www.pollinator.org/beesmartapp.htm" target=_blank peppyCount="31"
s_oc="null">a free BeeSmart app</A> for the Android and iPhone that identifies
plants beneficial to the bees in your
area.</P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><BR>Read
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