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Blue Origin, New Shepard, flight NS-11 Up, up and away! In collaboration with the Space Exploration Initiative at the MIT Media Lab and Blue Origin, we successfully sent two queen bees and her workers into space. This project marked the Media Lab’s 1st rocket launch and just the 3rd time…
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We would like to take a moment to pay tribute to the green thumbs of the world by sharing a blog post by our personal favorite, Gardens by Renee. Renee illustrates the components needed to transform your space into a Pollinator Habitat and includes a list of pollinator friendly plants…
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There are so many reasons why I love working for The Best Bees Company. I’m employed amongst like-minded people whom I adore. I have honey at my disposal as if I lived in a utopian fairy forest. There’s a petite kitten who jaunts around gleefully and sometimes even sends out…
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After analyzing HoneyDNA test results from 84 million bees, we know urban habitats are more bee-friendly than suburban and rural areas. Noah Wilson-Rich, our Chief Science Officer, presented the findings to the TEDxProvincetown audience in 2018. The implications of the study go beyond just understanding where bees find adequate biodiversity.…
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Guest blog post by Eileen Guest. Convincing my kids to care about bees wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be. I try to engage with my boys when we go outside to play. However, I constantly find myself being drawn to my garden to pull one more weed…
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Kevin Rodrigues, guest blogger, is a developer-turned-blogger that helps people learn about gardening. Check out his website:https://gardeningmentor.com A gift from Mother Nature. Bees can be called that and rightly so. They are pollinators that help plants in your garden bear fruit. If it were not for bees, 30 percent of the…
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Past entries of both the Best Bees blog and the Urban Beekeeping Laboratory blog have focused on specific bee related topics and issues, but we’ve rarely if ever posted an overview of both the problems facing bee populations and their current solutions and mitigations. We were lucky to receive this…
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Most gardeners start to rein in their outdoor activities after Labor Day. But honeybees and other pollinating insects stay busy well into the fall and even early winter. You can help them out by using the tips you’ll find in this post.
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#NextGenBeekeeper is a series of profiles and features on the lives of the next generation of beekeepers emerging in the field. Keep an eye out on our social media for the #NextGenBeekeeper tag.
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For the past few years a #SavetheBees movement has been gaining momentum. This has been a product of increased discussion about our friendly neighborhood pollinators suffering from health problems and die-offs. Ask your local beekeeper why all the bees are dying and more often than not insecticides are a large…
