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Results for keyword: Insects

  • Lewis’ Web

    Wyoming microbiologist Randy Lewis is fascinated by spiders – particularly by the remarkable silk they produce.

    by Erin Halcomb, Apr 02, 2007

  • The Silence of the Bees

    Migratory beekeeper John Miller hauls his hives across the West, pollinating everything from almonds to apples, but a nasty parasite and a mysterious disorder are making life much harder for John and his buzzing business partners.

    by Hannah Nordhaus, Mar 19, 2007

  • Busy as a Buchmann

    Ecologist Stephan Buchmann is crazy about bees, and his Tucson-based one-man nonprofit, The Bee Works, is simply buzzing with activity.

    by Brendan Borrell, Mar 19, 2007

  • Have bee, will travel

    This issue of High Country News features Hannah Nordhaus on the challenges facing a Western migratory beekeeper and his hives of pollinating bees.

    by John Mecklin, Mar 19, 2007

  • Conspiring with caddisflies

    A Seattle artist known only as Ferg works with tiny caddisfly larvae to make jewelry from the insects’ intricate casings

    by Eliza Murphy, Nov 27, 2006

  • Bees don't grow on trees

    Honeybees are in trouble, and so are the farmers who depend on them for pollination, especially in California’s almond orchards

    by J.M. McCord, Mar 07, 2005

  • Butterfly escapes endangered species net

    Cloudcroft, N.M., creates its own conservation plan to protect the rare Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly without waiting for an endangered species listing

    by April Reese, Jan 24, 2005

  • Hot Times - Global Warming in the West

    Global Warming is showing up in the West, in everything from receding glaciers to shrinking pika habitat

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Jul 19, 2004

  • Life cycle of a bark beetle

    Graph and photos show the life cycle of the bark beetle

    by Staff, Jul 19, 2004

  • Global Warming's Unlikely Harbingers

    Mountain pine beetles are attacking more forests and more varieties of trees — and thriving at higher elevations than ever before — and some scientists believe global climate change is at the root of the problem

    by Michelle Nijhuis, Jul 19, 2004
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