Bees to vanquish varroa

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Australia, NZ, Oceania, Diseases and pesticides | Posted on 20-12-2007

New Zealand researchers say they have bred honeybees which are not only resistant to varroa mites, but fight back by making the mite larvae sterile.

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Genetically Engineered crops causing CCD

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Diseases and pesticides | Posted on 19-12-2007

Scientific evidence suggest that GM Crops are causing a breakdown of bees immune system in what has been called by scientists “Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder“.

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Harder Working Bees, Through Chemistry

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Behavior, Biology, Diseases and pesticides | Posted on 15-12-2007

Beekeepers with colonies suffering from symptoms of Colony Collapse Disorder still keep showing up. They did everything right this summer: they made healthy splits; they fed, medicated and sheltered. But the splits didn’t build up like they should, and the parents just dwindled and died.

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Honey ‘better than medicines’ for kids’ coughs

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Health | Posted on 14-12-2007

Natural honey is a betterremedy for children’s coughs than expensive over-the-counter medicines, researchers said today.

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Swarm of bees briefly halt Sri Lanka-England cricket Test

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Asia, Misc | Posted on 13-12-2007

Sri Lanka – A swarm of bees briefly halted play in the cricket Test between Sri Lanka and England when they flew across Asgiriya Stadium, forcing the players to all lie motionless on the ground.

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Pork Industry Board welcomes Beekeepers’ win

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Australia, NZ, Oceania, Diseases and pesticides | Posted on 12-12-2007

The Court of Appeal has upheld the Beekeepers’ case that it is unlawful for MAF to allow new organisms across the border. It affirms that the only body with power to approve the introduction of new organisms to New Zealand is ERMA.

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Queen Bees Control Sex of Young After All

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Biology | Posted on 11-12-2007

Royalty has its privileges, even in the insect world. Queen honey bees can choose the sex of their offspring, a new study shows. Like a sharp stinger, that finding pokes a hole in the notion that queens are merely mindless egg layers and that worker bees have the final say on whether the queen lays eggs that give rise to males or females.

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Guerilla bees cheat their way to royalty

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Behavior | Posted on 10-12-2007

The revolutionary-style activity of a type of honey bee has dealt a blow to the image of insects working co-operatively to benefit the colony.

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Sweet news for Aussie bee industry

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Australia, NZ, Oceania, Diseases and pesticides, North America | Posted on 09-12-2007

The US Department of Agriculture says it won’t ban imports of Australian honeybees, after first suggesting a few months ago the bees might be the source of deadly Colony Collapse Disorder in the states.

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Beekeepers leaving the industry, with no one to replace them

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in North America | Posted on 08-12-2007

David Coggshall remembers when he was a boy hauling bee colonies from sweet clover fields in Cocoa to cucumber patches in the Everglades and back to Central Florida in time for summer orange blossoms, which flavored the honey for his father’s 3-generation-old beekeeping operation.

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