‘Honey Laundering’ Threatens Trade With US

New Zealand’s growing honey trade with the United States is in jeopardy if Australian honey products are allowed into the Kiwi market.

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NASA and Beekeepers Use Satellites and Scales To Monitor Climate Change Impact on Bees

Weighing hives on Pine Branch to help compile a national “land use” map and see if bloom rates are different than they were in the past. Using the weights of hives, NASA researchers can see if climate patterns are changing, and perhaps affecting the bees.

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New Bill Would Make Your Wisconsin Honey 100% Natural

Lawmakers are hoping to pass a bill that would make your Wisconsin honey, all natural. The proposal would require certain state standards before a product can be labeled honey.

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UF research finds that ‘killer’ bees haven’t stung U.S. honey production

In just a few years after Africanized honey bees were introduced to Brazil in 1956, the aggressive bees had dominated and ruined domestic hives throughout South and Central America. According to University of Florida research, however, the same story isn’t playing out in North America.

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Survey: Honeybee colony collapse losses declining

Fewer beekeepers are reporting evidence of a mysterious ailment that had been decimating the U.S. honeybee population.

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Badly stung beekeeper comes round in a coffin after bumbling doctor says he’s dead

A beekeeper passed out after being stung…and woke up in a pitch-black closed coffin.

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Propolis Boosts Cancer Chemotherapy, Radiotherapy

Epidemiologic findings strongly suggest that cancer rates are influenced by environmental factors that can be mitigated to a great extent, for example by a diet rich in polyphenolic/flavonoid compounds.

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Burning beehive brings brigade

A burning beehive prompted a callout by the Alexandra Fire Brigade yesterday afternoon Beekeeper Russell Poole, of Alexandra, said he was burning a hive infected with the disease foulbrood.

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Honeybee Population Decline and Its Devastating Effects Are Topic of ‘Vanishing of the Bees’

Bee Native, The Honeybee Conservancy and the Natural Resources Defense Council announce the creation of a February 4th fundraiser for “Vanishing of the Bees,” a new documentary that comprehensively demystifies the collapse of honeybee populations across the planet and its risk to $15 billion dollars’ worth of U.S. agricultural revenue products.

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French roads to help honey bees

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.

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