Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 08:47:44 -0400 Sender: Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group From: "Andy Clark, SAN Coordinator" Subject: Re: Honeybees/pollinators SANET: It was in response to the pollinator problem that the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) decided to collaborate with the USDA Agricultural Research Service to publish a handbook about an alternative pollinator, the blue orchard bee (Osmia lignaria). Working with scientists at the Bee Biology and Systematics Laboratory in Logan, UT, where Torchio is an emeritus (http://www.loganbeelab.usu.edu/), we published the 88-page how-to handbook: "How to Manage the Blue Orchard Bee as an Orchard Pollinator." For more information and to order, please see http://www.sare.org/htdocs/bobflyer.htm Andy SAN office has moved! New contact information effective May 22: Andy Clark, Coordinator Sustainable Agriculture Network 10300 Baltimore Ave. Bldg. 046 BARC-WEST Beltsville, MD 20705-2350 PH: 301-504-6425 (no change) FX: 301-504-5207 E: san@sare.org http://www.sare.org (no change)