News about bees and beekeeping from around the world
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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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
About 100 medical specialists and researchers have converged here for the First International Conference on the Medicinal Uses of Honey.
researchers at Cardiff University have developed an algorithm based on dancing bees to help companies to optimize their business processes.
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.
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.
A company in Mission Viejo, California now offers a product to treat and prevent stretch marks.