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Norman’s Earth Day Festival is back for its 19th annual celebration with environmental education, live music and food trucks at Andrews Park.

NEWTON — The Catawba County Extension Master Gardener volunteers are hosting a public program from 9:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 7. The focus will be gardening for pollinators,

Many of Missouri’s bees, such as the leafcutter bee (pictured), rely on native flowers and plants for sustenance. MDC encourages the public to “bee-friend” native pollinators by planting native plants this season.

MDC will offer free virtual Buzz into Pollination workshops for teachers instructing in grades 3 through 8. Pollinators such as the brown-belted bumblebee visiting a coneflower will be discussed.

BOZEMAN — The Montana State University Pollinator Health Center will host its annual Pollinator Symposium on Thursday, April 21, on MSU’s campus. The event will take place 6 to 9

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Honeybees are well known for their ability to produce honey. However, these bees, both cultivated and in the wild, have declined because of colony collapse disorder in recent years.

Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding joined the Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences Dean Richard Roush on Monday to highlight PA Farm Bill investments strengthening pollinator research, as well

By Maryann Mickewicz

"We cannot produce food without pollinators, so we wanted to find a way to attract them to our farm while bringing some aesthetic beauty to our blighted space."