Ultimately, the Berlin International Film Festival managed to come up with at least one plausible winner, the Turkish-German co-production Bal (Honey) from director Semih Kaplanoglu. Michael Althen reports on a worthy winner at a not-so-worthy festival
The Square Mile will be buzzing with the sound of about a million extra honeybees this year.
A beekeeper passed out after being stung…and woke up in a pitch-black closed coffin.
Posted by eivindm | Posted in Diseases and pesticides, Europe | Posted on 22-01-2010
Tags: ccd, colony collapse disorder, france
Paris – France is to sow nectar-bearing flowers on the sides of roads in an experiment aimed at helping the honey bee, hit by an alarming worldwide decline, the ministry of sustainable development said on Tuesday.
BBKA to fund a PhD project into investigating the genetic basis of hygienic behaviour in honeybees
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Posted by eivindm | Posted in Europe | Posted on 17-01-2010
Tags: funding, research, uk
The British Beekeepers’ Association, which represents more than 16,000 of the country’s amateur beekeepers, will give a £36,000 grant to support the work of a post graduate student over the next three years, in the prestigious Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects (LASI) at Sussex University.
In hopes of better understanding why bee populations are in decline, scientists are attaching microchips to bees to monitor their movements. The tiny device is glued to the back of the bees works with equipment installed at the entrance of their hives to record different data.
Intensification of farming and subsequent decline in food sources rather than pesticides or disease seen as biggest threat to honey bees
Investigators have concluded that a fire which destroyed a building at a beeswax purification plant in Winfred, Aberdeen was accidental and resulted from solvent that vaporized and ignited.
Posted by eivindm | Posted in Diseases and pesticides, Europe | Posted on 04-01-2010
Tags: uk, varroa
A parasitic disease threatening honey bees was among 11 research topics tackled recently by lecturers at Moray College.
The £3,000 study into varroasis was one of the college’s first small research projects necessary to gain university status.
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