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Urban beekeeping is the practice of keeping bee colonies (hives) in towns and cities. It is also referred to as hobby beekeeping or backyard beekeeping . Bees from city apiaries are said to be "healthier and more productive than their country cousins". [ 2 ]
Other projects like AgeGuess [8] focus on the senior demographics and enable the elderly to upload photos of themselves so the public can guess different ages. Lists of citizen science projects may change. For example, the Old Weather project website indicates that as of January 10, 2015, 51% of the logs were completed. [9]
The Pollinator Pathway is a participatory art, design and ecology social sculpture [1] initiative founded by the artist and designer Sarah Bergmann. Its objective is to connect existing isolated green spaces and create a more hospitable urban environment for pollinators like bees with a system of ecological corridors of flowering plants by using existing urban infrastructure such as curb space ...
The urban hierarchy ranks each city based on the size of population residing within the nationally defined statistical urban area. Because urban population depends on how governments define their metropolitan areas, urban hierarchies are conventionally ranked at the national level; however, the ranking can be extended globally to include all cities.
The project has taught these students to pivot and adapt; not to manage expectations, but set new ones while creating new outcomes. Their Mitchell Middle School site provides a ready example.
The Apiary Laboratory, more often referred to as the Apiary, is a research laboratory at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Originally built for the study of honey bees and apiculture , today it is primarily used to study native pollinator species and the chemicals and pathogens impacting their populations.
The medical examiner has ruled Gina’s cause of death “undetermined. “ Her mother said she could not get a copy of her daughter’s autopsy report, and had to beg the medical examiner to ...
More recently, she has begun studying the role of resins, which bees collect and mix with wax to make propolis coatings on the inside of their hives, as an example of honey bee social immunity. [17] Her lab also studies the effect of the surrounding landscape on the health and nutrition of both honey bees and native bees. [18]