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.
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“.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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