Those of us who are beekeepers rightly love our bugs. Chances are, we don’t spend too much time thinking about other bugs. Scott R. Shaw does. He’s a professor and curator of the Insect Museum at the University of Wyoming. He’s also author of Planet of the Bugs: Evolution and the Rise of Insects. He’sContinue reading “Stop squashing bugs. And stop calling them pests.”
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The perils — and lack of income — of today’s small farmer outlined in NYT op-ed article
Gene Logsdon, The Contrary Farmer (http://thecontraryfarmer.wordpress.com/), says that one of the first rules of small farming is this: Make sure you have an income that doesn’t come from farming. Those sentiments and more were echoed by Bren Smithaug in a New York Times op-ed piece titled Don’t Let Your Children Grow Up to Be Farmers. Smithaug,Continue reading “The perils — and lack of income — of today’s small farmer outlined in NYT op-ed article”
New York Times op-ed article issue call for diversity to help the bees
When a majordomo in the mass media pays some attention to bees, we try to take note. This week it was the New York Times, which has been paying quite a bit of attention to the plight of honeybees in our current difficult environment. The author is Mark Winston, a biologist and the director of theContinue reading “New York Times op-ed article issue call for diversity to help the bees”