{"id":486,"date":"2019-10-22T03:59:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T08:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=486"},"modified":"2019-10-22T03:59:38","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T08:59:38","slug":"bee-vectoring-of-organic-pesticides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2019\/10\/22\/bee-vectoring-of-organic-pesticides\/","title":{"rendered":"Bee Vectoring of Organic Pesticides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-22-at-4.55.23-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-487\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-22-at-4.55.23-AM-1024x851.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-22-at-4.55.23-AM-1024x851.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-22-at-4.55.23-AM-300x249.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-22-at-4.55.23-AM-768x638.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/10\/Screen-Shot-2019-10-22-at-4.55.23-AM.png 1454w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On August 28, the EPA approved the first-ever bee-distributed organic pesticide for the US market\u2014a fungus-fighting powder called Vectorite that contains the spores of a naturally occurring fungus called <i>Clonostachys rosea <\/i>(CR-7). CR-7 is completely harmless to its host plant and acts as a hostile competitor to other, less innocuous fungi. It has been approved for commercial growers of flowering crops like blueberries, strawberries, almonds, and tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of Vectorite is that it mimics a \u201clocally appropriate natural system,\u201d said Vicki Wojcik, director of Pollinator Partnership Canada. \u201cIt\u2019s an interesting twist\u2026 where care for the health of the pollinator is actually vital because it is your actual vector.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus&#8230; <strong>bee vectoring.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2019\/10\/now-available-in-the-us-a-pesticide-delivered-by-bees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A new pesticide is all the buzz: The EPA has approved the first-ever bee-distributed pesticide for the US market<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 28, the EPA approved the first-ever bee-distributed organic pesticide for the US market\u2014a fungus-fighting powder called Vectorite that contains the spores of a naturally occurring fungus called Clonostachys rosea (CR-7). CR-7 is completely harmless to its host plant <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2019\/10\/22\/bee-vectoring-of-organic-pesticides\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concepts-ideas","category-environmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}