Focusing on Wildlife

Can we save the bees? Absolutely. Let’s start with the native species (commentary)

October 20, 2021October 15, 2021 Supertrooper 2 Comments

My name is Krystle Hickman. I’m a photographer, community scientist and public speaker based in Los Angeles, California. My photography revolves around three things: bees, the plants they visit and their ecosystems. As a community scientist I note behavior, times, dates and weather when out photographing bees and their flowers. Over many years, my notations […]

POLL: Should genetically-modified bees with pesticide resistance be created?

October 24, 2018February 18, 2021 Supertrooper 12 Comments

The spring of 2008 was brutal for Europe’s honeybees. In late April and early May, during the corn-planting season, dismayed beekeepers in Germany’s upper Rhine valley looked on as whole colonies perished. Millions of bees died. France, the Netherlands and Italy reported big losses, but in Germany the incident took on the urgency of a […]

The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees | Book Review

October 10, 2013June 21, 2021 Supertrooper 1 Comment

Every year, somewhere between 30 and 50 percent of all worker honeybees disappear from their hives, never to be seen again, leaving their developing young to die and their queens untended. This disturbing phenomenon, known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), was first identified in the United States, but it is happening all around the world. […]