Pheromone fun…

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Misc, North America | Posted on 31-08-2006

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Brian Fuentes, an American baseball player, knew how to have some fun with a beekeeper buddy. It included some bee pheromone…

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Researchers looking for better bees for pollination

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Biology, Pollination | Posted on 31-08-2006

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Because honeybees that pollinate California’s gigantic almond crop and some other crops have been plagued by disease and poor performance, growers have been looking for a better bee. A company from England thinks it might have found it.

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New large honey factory in New Zealand

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Australia, NZ, Oceania, Business | Posted on 31-08-2006

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Despite that the varroa mite has been dominating the beekeeping news in New Zealand lately, a new honey factory with 20 employees and an annual production of up to 250 tonnes of mankua honey is being built in Masterton.

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Wild bees make honey bees better pollinators

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Behavior, Pollination | Posted on 30-08-2006

When honey bees interact with wild native bees, they are up to five times more efficient in pollinating sunflowers than when native bees are not present, according to a new study by a pair of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and UC Davis.

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Fruitgrowers support varroa plan in New Zealand

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Australia, NZ, Oceania, Diseases and pesticides | Posted on 30-08-2006

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A plan to rid the upper South Island of the bee parasite varroa under a programme of baiting and poisoning wild bee colonies, has the full support of the region’s horticulturalists.

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Honey draws 100 international researchers to Kota Baharu

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Health | Posted on 30-08-2006

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About 100 medical specialists and researchers have converged here for the First International Conference on the Medicinal Uses of Honey.

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Dancing bees help businesses

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Misc | Posted on 29-08-2006

researchers at Cardiff University have developed an algorithm based on dancing bees to help companies to optimize their business processes.

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Sugar free honey project in India

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Asia | Posted on 28-08-2006

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In an effort to motivate beekeepers to produce sugar-free herbal honey, the government has introduced a new eco-friendly beekeeping system in Himachal Pradesh.

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Man dies after 300 stings from Africanized bees

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Australia, NZ, Oceania | Posted on 27-08-2006

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Exterminators have removed a hive containing an estimated quarter-million Africanized bees from a home near Bisbee where a man was fatally stung on Aug. 20.

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Tummy Honey

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Health, Products | Posted on 27-08-2006

A company in Mission Viejo, California now offers a product to treat and prevent stretch marks.

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