{"id":973,"date":"2012-04-19T14:45:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T14:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=973"},"modified":"2019-07-26T14:11:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T14:11:36","slug":"studies-on-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/studies-on-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Studies on Bees"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1071\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1071\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/gaillardia-sarah-640px.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1071\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/gaillardia-sarah-640px-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"bees gathering pollen from a Gaillardia flower\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/gaillardia-sarah-640px-640x426.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/gaillardia-sarah-640px.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1071\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">bees gathering pollen from a <em>Gaillardia<\/em> flower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Check out these two articles. They profile recent studies on how the health of bees is being affected by toxins in the environment, such as pesticides. They were sent to me by my colleague, Patricia Garcia, in our Quebec office.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-17535769\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pesticides hit queen bee numbers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/environment\/chain-reaction-toxic-soil-kills-bees-threatens-food-production-20120416-1x2we.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chain reaction: toxic soil kills bees, threatens food production<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To garden naturally, download our handouts on <a title=\"Gardening for Pollinators\" href=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/en\/discover-wildlife\/resources\/posters--handouts\/booklets-handouts\/pollinator-handout_resource.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gardening for Pollinators <\/a>and <a title=\"Natural Insect Control Handout\" href=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/en\/discover-wildlife\/resources\/posters--handouts\/booklets-handouts\/natural-insect-control_resource.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natural Insect Control<\/a>. Also visit our pages on <a title=\"Gardening Organically\" href=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/en\/discover-wildlife\/gardening\/gardening101\/green-gardening\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">organic gardening<\/a> and <a title=\"Insects\" href=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/en\/discover-wildlife\/flora-fauna\/fauna\/insects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">insects<\/a>. In addition to what we do in our gardens, put your shopping power to use and buy organic where feasible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">Check out these two articles. They profile recent studies on how the health of bees is being affected by toxins in the environment, such as pesticides. They were sent to&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[641,633],"tags":[413,334,45,333,310],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening","category-canadian-wildlife","tag-bees","tag-gaillardia","tag-gardening-2","tag-pollen","tag-wild-about-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6496,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions\/6496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}