A couple of recent updates in the bees and dialogue vein: Global Civic Policy Salon, “Bees and Dialogue,” video 4 May 2016 A nice article in the 30 May 2016 Toronto Globe and Mail Western Universities Report about the Undergraduate…
Competing Doomsdays
There is a remarkable story unfolding in Ontario and Quebec around pesticides and bees, rooted in two competing doomsday scenarios. Grain farmers claim pests will destroy their crops unless they are allowed to use neonicitinoid pesticides, while beekeepers point to…
Review of “The Dancing Bees”
I recently reviewed a new book for Nature ( 533, 32–33, 05 May 2016, doi:10.1038/533032a), “The Dancing Bees” by Tania Munz, focused largely on how Karl von Frisch discovered the function of the honeybee dance language while in the heart of…