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• Squash family not forming fruit?

  
  Aussie Organic Gardening — Authority: 112
  The squash or Cucurbit family that includes chokoes, cucumbers, grammas, gourds, pumpkins, rockmelons, squash, watermelons, and zucchinis, produce both male and female flowers on the same plant, and rely on insects, such as bees, to pollinate the female flowers and produce fruit. (Although we eat many of this family ...
  6 days ago

• Disasters and how to deal with them online! Just in time for 2012.

  
  Social Ch@nge — Authority: 441
  It’s no coincidence that 2012 (the latest in a long line of disaster movies from director Roland Emmerich)  is timed to release during one of the worst weather months North Americans experience. Yep, November is storm season, bringing with it power outages, floods, snow, wind – and that’s only on the west ...
  1 week ago

• Pollinators hard at work!

  
  Dudu Diaries — Authority: 408
  Pollinators hard at work!   “One in three bites of food can be attributed to a pollinator”. This statement is often quoted by biologists around the world when talking about pollinators and their importance to our lives.   In Africa pollinators are primarily wild insects that travel between farms and natural ...
  1 week ago

• Manual Fruit Tree Pollination -Part 2

  
  Cooking Up A Story: A Show about People, Food, and Sustainable Living — Authority: 414
  Ashley Terry (right) and Rachel (wife) This is the second installment of my three-part series on manual pollination in Japan from the upcoming feature, “WWOOF! The Movie”. It reveals the way in which pollen is extracted from the anthers of the apple (or any other fruit) flower through a special grinding ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pollination before flowers

  
  Denim and Tweed — Authority: 122
  Which came first, the pollinator or the pollinated? An article in this weeks Science suggests that a diverse group of insects may have been drinking nectar and pollinating plants millions of years before the appearance of modern flowering plants [$-a] . .flickr-photo { }.flickr-frameright { float: right; ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thank Your Pollinators for Your Thanksgiving Harvest

  
  Improve Your Home and Garden — Authority: 119
  Can you imagine Halloween without pumpkins, Thanksgiving without cranberries, or life without chocolate? Did you know that one out of every three bites of food that you eat needs the help of insect pollinators?Some of the important crops that require insect pollination include almonds, apples, alfalfa, blackberries, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Paw Paw

  
  Find Me A Cure — Authority: 136
  Botanical Name: Asimina triloba , Family: Annonaceae Names: The name, also spelled paw paw, paw-paw, and papaw, probably derives from the Spanish papaya, perhaps because of the superficial similarity of their fruit . Pawpaw has numerous other common names, often very local, such as prairie banana, Indiana ...
  2 weeks ago

• Botanical exam gems

  
  Seeds Aside — Authority: 108
  So here are a few gems from a student exam in Plant Morphology class (Anonymity is entirely respected since this is not mine anyway).  I acknowledge that this is a rather ‘private’  post since many (lay) readers may not spot the issue  or the joke in these answers to the test. I tried to add the basic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Did You Thank a Honeybee for Your Great Pumpkin?

  
  Global Swarming Honeybees — Authority: 115
  Hats off to our honeybees for this years hefty haul of pumpkins.
  3 weeks ago

• European Pear Never Flowers

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 160
  Hi, this is my first visit and post. I planted a Semi-Dwarf Buerre Superfin Euro Pear 7 years ago. It has always been healthy with no signs of any disease or insect problems. However, it is now 7 years in the ground and 10-12 feet tall, but has never had a single flower, let alone [...]
  4 weeks ago

• A Buzz in Middle C...Bumble Bees for Crops

  
  pencil and leaf — Authority: 121
  The more I read about bees, the more the little bits of information begin to make sense of things I have casually observed over the years. For example, I used to think that when the Bumble Bee changed it tune from low drowsy humm to high pitched buzz it was a sign of extreme irritation or frustration. Now I know ...
  4 weeks ago

• Manual Fruit Tree Pollination In Japan

  
  Cooking Up A Story: A Show about People, Food, and Sustainable Living — Authority: 414
  My wife and I have traveled around the globe for the last 5 months and filmed our experiences within the WWOOF! organizations of France, Japan, Italy, and India, and are working on a feature film documenting this journey. “ WWOOF! The Movie ” is about a collective of organizations that go by the acronym WWOOF: ...
  4 weeks ago

• Bats: 10 Essential Bat Facts, Plus Photo Gallery!

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 565
  Bats may be considered a spooky Halloween mascot, but they are actually one of the most beneficial animals on the planet: 70% of the world’s bat species feed on insects - and one bat can consume up to 1,000 insect pests in an hour. Bats also play a critical role in pollination and seed dispersal. Despite the fact ...
  4 weeks ago

• Pearl and The Beard at Joe’s Pub Tonight, National Album Release Today, East Coast Tour and Cross Pollination Pics

  
  Bumpershine.com — Authority: 435
  Pearl and The Beard at Pianos (06/23/09) DOWNLOAD : Pearl and The Beard – “Oh, Death!” The good folks of Pearl and The Beard were gracious enough to play my Cross Pollination show waaaaay back in June of 2009 and I’m embarrassed to say that it has taken me up until now (4 months later) to post ...
  4 weeks ago

• Adobe Reveals 2009 Design Achievement Award Winners

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  Adobe Reveals 2009 Design Achievement Award Winners -1.0 5 2009-10-26 17:30:41 1stAngel In Partnership with International Council of Graphic Design Associations, Student Competition Attracts 3,300 Global Entries Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the winners of the ninth annual Adobe ...
  4 weeks ago

• Feed Me! Non-Writing Blogs That Can Nourish Your Work

  
  Write Livelihood — Authority: 100
  Photo by Jan Willem Geertsma via SXC. Despite my admitted tendency to read books about reading and write blog posts about writing, I do think it’s important for writers—especially nonfiction writers—to expose themselves to other sources of information when they go online, if for no other reason than to have ...
  4 weeks ago

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