Archimedes Notebook

Some of the easiest pollinators to catch "on the job" are bumble bees... they tend to stay focused on their work, and they don...

  The Great Pollinator Count (Community Science Counts!)  by Susan Edwards Richmond; illus. by Stephanie Fizer Coleman  32 pages; ages 4-8 ...

  If you get the opportunity to watch bumblebees this week, see if you can look one in the eye. Sometimes that means getting on the opposite...

When I talk about the bees and wasps and butterflies and beetles that pollinate the flowers in my garden and the surrounding meadows, I do s...

 Last week - on the first sunny day since the rain (and maybe since the eclipse...) I headed outside to see who was up and about. Yes, there...

    Mullien is one of the "weeds" I allow to grow in my garden. It's a biennial, so it takes two years to grow. In its first y...

  I love bumble bees, and there are so many different kinds collecting nectar and pollen in my garden. This week pay attention to the bumble...

 I love watching bumble bees in my garden – and around my yard. Especially in the spring, when the queens emerge from hibernation and begin ...

  Begin with a Bee  by Liza Ketchum, Jacqueline Briggs Martin, & Phyllis Root; illus. by Claudia McGehee  40 pages; ages 4-9 Univ. Of Mi...

This week is National Pollinator Week ~ a time to celebrate pollinators and spread the word about what you can do to protect them. Poll...

I enjoy counting bees and other pollinators for the Great Sunflower Project . Each time I follow them I learn new things. Take some time ...

With all the rain we've had into fall, my cosmos keep on blooming. And blooming. Good thing, too, because there are a couple of bumbl...

There are bees all over my garden! Bumble bees, carpenter bees, tiny metallic green bees, hairy gray sweat bees, and lots and lots of hon...

Follow a bumble bee. What sort of path does it make as it flies from flower to flower? Capture the colors of the flowers it is visiti...

Next week is National Pollinator Week . It's a perfect time to go bee-watching. Bee-watching is a lot like bird-watching except you ...

This week, take a moment to think about things you can do to help pollinators. Pollinator conservation isn’t just something for field...

Every third bite you eat is made possible by a pollinator - a bee or moth or butterfly that moved pollen from one flower to another. Who a...

Bumblebees are fun to watch and, when they're collecting pollen in a bunch of flowers, they're pretty easy to follow. But once they ...

It's been five years since honeybees started dying in large numbers across the country. Scientists are still trying to figure out why an...

For the last couple of summers I’ve been participating in the Great Sunflower Project. It doesn’t take much time – only 15 minutes eac...