by Pollinator Team | Mar 26, 2020 | Native Pollinator Initiative, Pollinators, Rusty Patched Bumblebee
Depending on where you live in Canada, the snow may already be melting, revealing early signs of spring. If you’re an avid gardener, you might already be thinking about what plants you want to add to your property this year. While it’s always nice to...
by Pollinator Team | Feb 28, 2020 | Pollinators, Yellow Banded Bumblebee
For three years now, Tiffani has been invaluable in our effort to survey bumble bees in as many sites as possible across Ontario. These surveys are conducted in a narrow spring window when bumble bee queens are still emerging from hibernation and only beginning the...
by Pollinator Team | Aug 20, 2019 | Native Pollinator Initiative
By Genevieve Rowe, Lead Biologist, Native Pollinator Initiative Sometimes as biologists we get stuck at a desk or in a lab, and sometimes we’re lucky enough to get a few weeks out in the field searching for the animals we are most fond of, and if we’re...
by Pollinator Team | Jun 5, 2019 | Native Pollinator Initiative, Pollinators, Uncategorized
As Jessica, our Conservation Programs Director, so eloquently outlined in her piece titled, The Science of the Seasons, spring has been slowly creeping across Ontario this year, but thanks to some of our heartier more reliable plant species, our bumble bee queens have...
by Pollinator Team | Apr 14, 2019 | Pollinators, Rusty Patched Bumblebee, Yellow Banded Bumblebee
To sting, or not to sting? Well, that depends on a few different things… At the Native Pollinator Initiative, we are often asked if bumble bees can sting, and if they really do die after stinging you. We’d like to take this opportunity to answer some of...
