International Pollination Symposium 2007 -- News & Archives

News

Bees Vanish, and Scientists Race for Reasons
By: Alexei Barrionuevo, NYTIMES.com
April 23, 2007 - What is happening to the bees? More than a quarter of the country's 2.4 million bee colonies have been lost - tens of billions of bees... Read more

Colony Collapse Disorder phenomenon in America and Europe: could the solution be found in Africa?
By: Contributing Writer of Seedquest.com
May 11, 2007 - The solution to the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), a phenomenon that has baffled beekeepers
and researchers in America and Europe, may just be found in Africa - Read more

The Small Hive Beetle: A New Pest of Honey Bee Colonies
May 3, 2007 - Virginia Tech University Department of Entomology - Read more

Declining honeybees a 'threat' to food supply
By: Associated Press, MSNBC.com
May 2, 2007 - Unless someone or something stops it soon, the mysterious killer that is wiping out
many of the nation's honeybees could have a devastating effect on America's dinner plate... - Read more

Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops
By: Alexandra-Maria Klein, et al
Paper published in Proceedings of The Royal Society; Published online 27 October 2006. - Read more

Archives

March 29, 2007: The mysterious deaths of the honeybees
Amy Sahba, CNN.com
Honeybee colony collapse drives price of honey higher and threatens fruit and vegetable production. Beekeepers throughout the United States have been losing... Read more

March 8, 2007:Bee-fuddling
John S. Adams, Missoula Independent Newspaper
Across the country entire honeybee colonies are mysteriously disappearing. Read More

March 7, 2007: No Answers In Case of Missing Bees
Emily Darrell, Montana Kaimin Newspaper
Once again the nation has found itself caught up in a mystery of disappearance... Read more

February 5, 2007: HONEY BEE DIE-OFF ALARMS BEEKEEPERS
Larry O'Hanlon, Discovery News
Something is wiping out honey bees across North America and a team of researchers is rushing to find out what it is. Read More.
Read an article from the CCD Working Group about Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)

October 27, 2006: Report Warns of Looming Pollination Crisis in North America
Science 20 October 2006: Vol. 314. no. 5798, p. 397
By: Constance Holden
Honeybees are in trouble, according to a report on North American pollinators unveiled this week by a committee of the National Research Council. The committee calls for better long-term monitoring of all pollinators, noting that few records exist for species other than honeybees. Read more.

October 13, 2006: The U.S. Postal Service has announced that ''Pollination'' will be a theme of 2007 U.S. postage stamps, likely to be released in the second half of the year. The four plants featured in the stamps are prairie or common ironweed, saguaro flower, hummingbird trumpet blossom, and purple or chaparral nightshade. Also featured are Southern dogface butterfly, lesser long-nosed bat, calliope hummingbird, and Morrison's bumble bees. David E. Failor, executive director of Stamp Services for the U.S. Postal Service, said, ''It's just a unique visual demonstration of how the whole pollination system works.''

September 28, 2006: The United States Senate has passed a resolution recognizing the last week in June 2007, as National Pollinator Week in the United States. This resolution recognizes the vital role of pollinators to ecosystem health and agriculture as well as the value of an ongoing partnership to increase awareness and support for protecting pollinators. The 2007 National Pollinator Week coincides with the 9th International Pollination Symposium to be held at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

Read the articles:

Senate Pollinator Resolution press release from North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC)

Senate Resolution 580