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[nafex] FW: Blue Bee Book
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From: ARS News Service <isjd@ars-grin.gov>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 15:47:27 -0400 (EDT)
To: ARS News List <ars-news@ars-grin.gov>
Subject: Blue Bee Book
STORY LEAD:
Secrets of Blue Orchard Bees Revealed in New Book
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ARS News Service
Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Marcia Wood, (301) 504-1662, MarciaWood@ars.usda.gov
April 19, 2002
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Tips from Agricultural Research Service bee researchers on how to raise
one of nature's best pollinators are presented in a new book, "How to
Manage the Blue Orchard Bee As an Orchard Pollinator."
Known to scientists as Osmia lignaria, the blue orchard bee pollinates
almond, apple, apricot, cherry and pear trees. The 96-page softcover book
is based on more than 25 years of research by ARS entomologists at the
agency's Bee Biology and Systematics Research Laboratory in Logan, Utah.
William P. Kemp and Jordi Bosch are the book's co-authors. Kemp is
research leader at the ARS bee lab at Logan. Bosch, formerly a post-
doctoral research associate at the Logan laboratory, is now with the
Department of Biology at Utah State University, Logan.
In text, hand-drawn illustrations, and color and black-and-white photos,
the authors explain how to rear and release healthy populations of this
gentle bee in orchards and gardens. They also describe the best methods
for controlling the bee's natural enemies. And, they show how to build
units from inexpensive everyday materials such as wood blocks, milk
cartons and paper straws that female blue orchard bees can use to make
safe, snug nests.
Though the book is primarily intended for beekeeping professionals and
orchardists, it also is a useful reference for hobbyists, home gardeners,
and anyone else interested in the life of this busy native bee, according
to Kemp. The book is available from the University of Vermont, Burlington.
The blue orchard bee may augment the efforts of the European honey bee,
Apis mellifera, the insect most widely used in the United States to
pollinate crops.
ARS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific research
agency.
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