What’s a Bee Butler? And Why Does the Fairmont Waterfront, Vancouver Have One?
The hotel is part of a lifeline for urban bees.
Save the Bumblebees! 4 Very Simple Things You Can Do to Help
The "work" done by pollinating bumblebees each year would cost $200 billion dollars without them.
How To Plant a Bee- and Butterfly-Friendly Garden This Spring
Any garden, whether a window box on a balcony or a multi-acre backyard, can be made friendlier to pollinators.
The Importance of Bees: Beekeeping at Narrows Botanical Gardens
I walked down the street in the summer heat, wearing long sleeves, pants, sneakers and socks and mumbled the mantra “you can do this.” I received a call from the man I was about to meet. He asked me a peculiar question. “You didn’t eat a banana today, did you?”…
Heroines for the Planet: Vanishing of the Bees Director Maryam Henein
Vanishing of the Bees began as a small research project for Maryam Henein and her friend, and co-director, George Langworthy when they learned that bees were mysteriously vanishing en masse worldwide. Since one in every three bites a human takes is pollinated by honeybees, the bees’ disappearance was deeply troubling.…
