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  1. Smart Stuff with Twig Walkingstick: Bee Good! But Why? (for the Week of June 3, 2007)

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/smart-stuff-twig-walkingstick-bee-good-why-week-june-3-2007

    News, Jan. 6, 2007, and "Native Bees Could Fill Pollinator Hole Left by Honeybees," from Texas ... we eat all sorts of these fruits, seeds and plants. They wouldn't exist without pollination. Get ... this: A scientist in Texas said native bees might be 100 times better at pollinating than honeybees are. ...

  2. Secrest Arboretum to Celebrate National Pollinator Week June 22

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/secrest-arboretum-celebrate-national-pollinator-week-june-22

    Pollinator Week with a free public program from 2-4 p.m. on Tuesday, June 22.   Roger Downer, an entomologist ... Madison Ave., Wooster, will talk about pollinators, why theyre at risk, why theyre needed and ways ... and their attributes € not just as food sources for pollinators but, just as important, as places for ...

  3. Ohio Drought Impacting Potential Corn Yields

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/ohio-drought-impacting-potential-corn-yields

    University Extension agronomist, said that corn is entering the pollination stage, a critical development ... tells you their corn is gone before pollination. That means the drought is so severe that plants have ... good news, said Thomison, is that drought impact on cornfields is very localized, and there's hope ...

  4. New Insight on Pollinators May Aid Strawberry Production

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/new-insight-pollinators-may-aid-strawberry-production

    pollination transforms the flowers into fruit. "The blooms have to be open wide enough for the insects to ... get in and pollinate," said Ohio State research assistant Diane Hartzler, pointing to blooms that ... were either partially or fully open. "If the blooms don't get pollinated, the result is ...

  5. Media Advisory: Ohio State Experts Available to Speak on Bees and Pesticides

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/media-advisory-ohio-state-experts-available-speak-bees-and-pesticides

    reporters about honey bees, native pollinators and the potential effects of pesticides on them. Reed ... (beekeeping) and on pollinator toxicology (adverse effects of chemicals) and genomics (genes and their ... function). His research, he says, seeks "to understand how to protect pollinators from the pesticides ...

  6. Resources for 2009 H1N1 Information

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/resources-2009-h1n1-information

    outbreak, also called the "swine flu." Here are some reliable resources from Ohio State University ... Flu Education/Prevention http://extension.osu.edu/~news/story.php?id=5150 Maintaining Herd Health in ... Ohio Pigs Amid Swine Flu Outbreaks http://extension.osu.edu/~news/story.php?id=5149 Chow Line: Pork and ...

  7. Corn Farmers 'Keeping Their Fingers Crossed'

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/corn-farmers-keeping-their-fingers-crossed

    damage from high temperatures and drought conditions during corn pollination, according to an Ohio State ... University Extension specialist. Pollination is the stage in corn development most sensitive to such stress ... pollination could cause a delay in silk emergence. If the delay lasts long enough, little or no pollen is ...

  8. Bluebird Boxes, Other Conservation Info Abounds at Farm Science Review

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/bluebird-boxes-other-conservation-info-abounds-farm-science-review

    pollinators, Asian carp, flying squirrels, water gardens, aquatic plants and algae, stream stewardship, harmful ... Farm Science visitors are looking for natural resources and conservation information, they should ... always, we will have our Natural Resources Information Center filled with exhibits and displays on ...

  9. Plant Germplasm Center Steadily Building Collection

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/plant-germplasm-center-steadily-building-collection

    honeybees and bumblebees, as pollination tools to aid in their germplasm collection. The insects, said ... curator Susan Stieve, are quicker and more efficient than hand pollination, and also allow year-round ... germplasm seed production in the greenhouse. "Hand pollination takes time and is expensive, but ...

  10. New Video Series offers Livestock Farmers Access to Grazing School

    https://news-archive.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news-release/new-video-series-offers-livestock-farmers-access-grazing-school

    ://fairfield.osu.edu/topics/agriculture-and-natural-resources/news/find-recent-grazing-school-presentations-on ... free online,” he said. “Producers can always improve the efficiencies of their land resources and ... and Crop Sciences, and the Natural Resource Conservation Service. The series of eight videos were ...

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