News about bees and beekeeping from around the world
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The man behind the Spiders in Space program, which eventually led to Australian spiders being rocketed into space on the ill-fated Columbia shuttle mission, is now working towards sending bees into space to enable astronauts to grow their own fruit and vegetables.
David Graves’ New York City Rooftop Honey is a different story. As its name suggests, Graves’ raw honey is made from beehives kept on 12 New York City rooftops, from the Bronx to the Upper East Side to Lower Manhattan to Brooklyn.
With the debate over chickens simmering, South Portland is now taking on the issue of beekeepers within city limits.
Pat O’Gorman is fed up with being stung every time a bear gets hungry.
A 21-year veteran of the New Jersey Department of Agriculture is trading cows, sheep and pigs for a decidedly more delicate member of the animal kingdom — honeybees.
Up to 30 per cent of all honeybee colonies in North America died last winter – double the normal over-winter fatality rate of 15 per cent.
In spring 2007, beekeepers in Alberta reported high losses of over-wintered bee colonies. In order to find out the extent of winterkill damage to the beekeeping industry in the province, Alberta Agriculture and Food conducted a survey of beekeepers who owned 400 or more colonies. Beekeepers were asked to report the percentage of bee colonies that did and did not survive.
Angry bees that fly like mini-missiles could map the futures of unmanned aircraft and planetary explorer robots, thanks to new University of Queensland research backed by the Queensland Government.
Beekeepers claim the industry in Western Australia is on its last legs and is calling on the Government for assistance.
Colony Collapse Disorder has earned headlines across the country as honeybees have been dying mysteriously in huge numbers, threatening fruit and vegetable crops that are pollinated by the hardworking insects. But the experience of Morris Hinton, who keeps bees in a quiet field off a dirt road near the Wellington Reservation, shows how Mother Nature can menace the small businessman with nothing more than bad weather.