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Home and Garden: Native bees

  • By Charlie Vanden Heuvel Columbia Gorge Beekeepers Association
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Free: This story appeared in Columbia Gorge News' June 24 Home and Garden section.

Of late there is a growing conversation concerning Native Bees versus the European Honey Bee. In order to arrive at an appreciation of these two differing segments of the insect world, one must delve into the behavior of each.

Native Bees
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Native Bees

  • By Charlie Vanden Heuvel Columbia Gorge Beekeepers Association
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Native bees evolved over millions of years ago as indigenous flowering plants came into being. Each species developed a special relationship t…

Joining forces for Oregon bees
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Joining forces for Oregon bees

  • By Flora Gibson Columbia Gorge News
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In the flower fields of the Columbia Gorge, a blue-haired, spiny-looking cuckoo bee patrols, searching for other bees’ pollen-laden nests so that it can steal them for itself.

Biologist finds rare bumblebee on Mt. Hood
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Biologist finds rare bumblebee on Mt. Hood

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PORTLAND — If you ate a Willamette Valley-grown tomato or pepper before the mid-’90s, there’s a good chance it was pollinated by the western bumblebee. The inch-long, white-bottomed bee — which you’d also have to thank for countless wildflowers — was one of the most common pollinators in the west. But around 15 years ago, they mysteriously disappeared west of the Cascades.