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Category Archives: Beneficial Insects
2019 Native Plant Field Season Update
I’m thrilled to announce that this summer I completed the third field season of my study. This is slightly bittersweet – while I’m excited that we are done with hot fieldwork, I will miss chasing bees around the farm and … Continue reading
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Tagged bees, field research, honey bees, native bees, Native Plants
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Unpopular Opinion: Saving Honey Bees Does Very Little to Save the Bees
Although I have been studying garden bees for the past three years, I was never focused on honey bees. From a biodiversity point of view, they are not very interesting to me. They are non-native and abundant. In fact, honey … Continue reading
Posted in bees, science
Tagged bee-washing, competition, garden bees, honey bees, native bees
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Native Plants and Pollinator Survey
Aaron Anderson is repeating his original survey on native plants and pollinators. This time, he is trying to understand how knowledge of a plant’s ecological function may alter impressions of native plants. The survey takes about 25-30 minutes to complete. … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron, ecology research, Garden Bee, Garden Pollinator, Native Plants
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Native plants and pollinators – 2018 field update
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a field update about my native plant – pollinator study, so this post will be a recap of the entire 2018 field season! Sampling this year was successful, though it was a much … Continue reading
Posted in Beneficial Insects, garden ecology, Native Plants
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Pollinator Survey
Lauren Bennett, a Master’s student at OSU, is doing her capstone project on pollinators She has a short survey (10-15 minutes) on pollinators and pollinator plants. If you could spare a few moments of your time, we would appreciate your … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology research, garden plants, Garden Pollinator, Lauren
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First Publication from the Garden Ecology Lab!
Our paper on the potential for bee movements between gardens and urban/peri-urban agriculture has been published in a special issue on Agroecology in the City, in the journal Sustainability. Langellotto, G.A.; Melathopoulos, A.; Messer, I.; Anderson, A.; McClintock, N.; Costner, L. … Continue reading
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Tagged Garden Bee, Garden Pollinator
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Plant List for Pollinator Gardens
Over the past year, I have have given many presentations that highlighted the high bee activity at ‘site 51’; a garden that is fairly small (0.1 acre) and in … Continue reading
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Garden Bees, 2017
All bees have been pinned, labelled, and data-based. Now we’re (and when I say ‘we’re’, I’m mostly referring to Lucas and Isabella) are going through the painstaking process of photographing all specimens: head on, from the top, and from each … Continue reading
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Tagged Garden Bee, garden ecology, Garden Pollinator, Portland
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Research Update: Studying Willamette Valley’s Native Plants
The post below comes from Aaron Anderson, a M.S. student in the OSU Department of Horticulture, and a member of the Garden Ecology Lab. ************************************* This past summer, we conducted the first field season of a study screening native plants … Continue reading
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Tagged Garden Pollinator, Native Plants, research
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