ApinewsNews about bees and beekeeping from around the world

Beekeepers in the South Island believe that bee rustlers are at work in Central Otago.

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Enjoy the sweet rewards of beekeeping. Here’s what you need to know to keep bees — using natural methods — and harvest fresh, delicious honey from your own back yard.

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Lack of enough beekeeping literature is a hindrance to the growth of the beekeeping industry, the manager of Connoisseur Honeys, Bushenyi, has said.

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So, your tomato crop was pretty lousy last summer. Blame it on the bees, or the lack thereof.

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The collapse of honeybee colonies across North America is focusing attention on the honeybees’ vital role in the survival of agricultural crops, and a new study by University of Florida and Indiana University Southeast researchers shows insect pollinators have likely played a key role in the evolution and success of flowering plants for nearly 100 million years.

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A diminutive insect could have a big impact on Hawai’i farmers who depend on bees to pollinate their crops.

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Wisconsin Natural Acres, producer of all-natural honey and home to millions of healthy, happy and thriving honeybees, today announced the launch of its 2008 Honey with Integrity campaign. The Honey with Integrity campaign will span the 2008 year, promoting the health benefits of honey, and ways it can be incorporated into a healthy lifestyle.

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Bees are known to communicate the location of food by dancing. And now the harems of promiscuous queens have been found to generate better dancers.

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Canada’s honeybee population has been bruised and battered by a host of new health threats, so producers are looking to create a network of research and diagnostic efforts to protect their lucrative but fragile industry.

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