Greenwich High student wins science competition

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Diseases and pesticides, Europe | Posted on 22-03-2008

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Eliza McNitt, a Greenwich High School junior, captured top honors at the 45th Connecticut Junior Science and Humanities Symposium for an original research project that traced the migration of pesticides through the production of southwestern Connecticut honey.

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Proposed legislation could hurt agriculture in New Zealand

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Australia, NZ, Oceania | Posted on 22-03-2008

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Farmers, horticulturists and beekeepers are extremely concerned about proposed legislation that will threaten the billion dollar agricultural industry, they say.

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As prices increase, so do bee hive thefts

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Business, North America | Posted on 22-03-2008

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Third-generation beekeeper Roscoe Hall spent the last year fretting over a disease that’s inexplicably caused thousands of his industrious insects to abandon their colonies.

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Bees to help sniff out quality wine

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Australia, NZ, Oceania, Biology | Posted on 19-03-2008

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Scientists at the Queensland Brain Institute are using bees’ noses to help develop a machine that can smell the difference between a good and a bad wine.

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Bee Pollen – A Budget Friendly Food for Health and Healing

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Health | Posted on 19-03-2008

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Bee pollen is often referred to as nature’s most complete food. Pollen harvested from a diverse selection of geographic areas contains all the essential components of life in a good tasting, chewable, easily digested, and highly bio-available form that can be consumed by anyone from young children to the very old.

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Beekeepers in UK demand £8m for research into treatment against devastating viruses

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Diseases and pesticides, Europe | Posted on 19-03-2008

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Beekeepers have warned that most of the country’s honey bees could be wiped out by disease in 10 years unless an urgent research programme is launched to find new treatments and drugs. They are to launch a nationwide campaign, including protests, to force the government to fund the £8m research project which they say is needed to save the nation’s bees.

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Honey holds promise in Fiji

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Business | Posted on 18-03-2008

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Honey farmers are being urged to increase their production to meet the local demand.

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Diseases could wipe out honeybees by 2018 in UK

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Diseases and pesticides, Europe | Posted on 18-03-2008

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Most of Britain’s honeybees could be wiped out by disease in 10 years, costing the economy £165 million a year, experts warned yesterday.

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Public school gets new bee garden

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in North America | Posted on 17-03-2008

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A San Francisco school will acquire the city’s first bee garden on a public school campus when fourth- through eighth-graders come together this morning to help create the garden.

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New Tax Incentives in the U.S. For Beekeepers is Good for Orchards

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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Business, North America | Posted on 17-03-2008

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The senate almost unanimously passed a bill making it cheaper for honey beekeepers to operate. This is good news for local orchards.

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