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Bumblebee ranges and climate change – some like it cool

By Claudia Garrido / 19 February 2021

Bumblebee ranges are a bit different from other bees. As a rule of thumb, bees are most diverse in regions […]

By Claudia Garrido / 12 February 2021

The impact of climate change on pollinators is complex. In the examples I gave last week, we saw how a

By Claudia Garrido / 5 February 2021

Many, many years ago, I was coordinating a federal honey bee selection project in Germany. There was a problem, though:

By Claudia Garrido / 28 November 2020

Most people would equate “managing pollinators” to beekeeping. Which means working with a managed pollinator, i.e. the Western honey bee,

By Claudia Garrido / 21 November 2020

Flowering strips seem to be a go-to when it comes to helping bees in farmland. They’re meant to be a

Road verges cover quite a bit of area. In Germany, where I live, it’s about 30,000 km². I’m not that

Bees are a classical example for central place foraging. It may sound abstract but simply means that the activity of

Talking about bees and agriculture, pesticide use is the first issue coming up. In the past years, the discussion concentrated

After dealing with the interesting parts of pollination, unfortunately, we also have to address the less uplifting part of it:

I don’t know about you, but I’m longing for spring. It’s the same every year: about February, I begin to