News about bees and beekeeping from around the world
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Honeybees are no longer just reared for their honey but for boosting crop yield in a big way through cross pollination.
ChungJin Biotech Co., Ltd, a manufacturer of Bee Venom Collector and fluid bed granulation coating machines in South Korea, announced today that they have developed a new electro-stimulation Bee Venom Collator and the world’s first Honeybee Artificial Insemination Instrument with integrated digital screen
Lack of government focus into the The Phillipine’s beekeeping industry hinders the development of what can be regarded as a key to food security and environmental conservation.
With the honey production in the Kashmir valley showing considerable surge, the authorities have set the target for honey export for 2009-10 to 250 metric tonnes, an official spokesman said on Sunday.
An Israeli-US company Beeologics is taking rapid measures to bring to market a proprietary anti-viral agent that promises to alleviate the effects of the virus strongly associated with Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), with full-scale FDA trials commencing next month.
Ministry of Rural Development and Self Employment Promotions has taken steps to export Kitul honey to Japan under its national program.
She isn’t your standard beauty queen. With five eyes and six legs, she isn’t going to bring world peace or save the whales, but the winner of the annual bee beauty pageant held at the Israeli boutique honey farm Dvorat Ha’Tavor is sweet.
Scientists have unearthed the remains of a large-scale beekeeping operation at a nearly 3,000-year-old Israeli site, which dates to the time of biblical accounts of King David and King Solomon.
Lebanese beekeepers met with experts from Europe and surrounding countries at a forum organized by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Beirut Friday. On the agenda: how to organize local beekeepers and improve their products.
The 2nd International Beekeeping Congress began today, August 19th 2008, for a period of three days. Held in Bhutan at the Taj Tashi Hotel in Thimphu, the Congress is jointly organised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Century Foundation, India.