ApinewsNews about bees and beekeeping from around the world

A passenger plane was forced to land after flying into a swarm of British bees. The Palmair Boeing 737, with 90 passengers on board, had to return to Bournemouth Airport in southern England shortly after take-off following an engine surge.

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When Father Adam Krempa sits down for a light meal, he enjoys a bowl of cottage cheese drizzled with honey, seeded rye bread lightly toasted with butter, not margarine, and a cup of coffee with a heaping teaspoon of honey.

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Big efforts are made to avoid fireblight in fruit growing areas in Norway.

Hardanger, where most of the apples are grown in Norway, has avoided it so far.
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A passenger plane was forced to land after flying into a swarm of bees, leaving hundreds of holidaymakers stranded.

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Mick Jagger reportedly tried to enlarge his penis by letting bees sting it. The Rolling Stones frontman, whose “small penis” was mocked by a former lover, covered his manhood in bees in the hope that their stings would cause it to swell.

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The Persian daily Iran reported on Monday that the reason for the unprecedented loss of bee colonies in Ardebil, East and West Azarbaijan as well as Kurdestan provinces is still unknown.

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Bees swarm through the smoke as Professor James Amrine attempts to hook a pollen trap to one of the 20 beehives used for research at West Virginia University. The honeybees are part of an ongoing research project at WVU that promises to put the University on the map in the world of apiculture (beekeeping) and aid the honeybees’ declining populations from what scientists are calling Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).

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Fifteen Grahamstown home- owners have called on the city‘s blind beekeepers to remove swarms from their properties. Meanwhile, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange-listed Blind Bee- keepers‘ Project, run by the Grahamstown Area Distress Relief Association (Gadra), has seen two share issues sell out within hours on the stock exchange.

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Hugh Raffles, professor in the Department of Anthropology at the New School, is currently writing The Illustrated Insectopedia (forthcoming, Pantheon), an ambitious book in the form of an abecedarium exploring our variegated relationship with insects.

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It could be mistaken for a scene out of a scary late night movie. But the swarm of bees coming from underneath the roof of the Erickson family home is not a Hollywood prop.

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