The first African Honey Trade Workshop organised by Bees for Development took place in August 2005, for two days prior to the Apimondia Congress in Dublin, Ireland. The Workshop was organised as part of our DFID/BLCF Project on African Honey. The Workshop Proceedings are now available online
The Cullen Fund has become a substantial shareholder in honey products maker Comvita.
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It has been 60 years since Ralph and Luella Gamber worked together in their Lancaster County kitchen to package the very first jars of Dutch Gold Honey.
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Uganda risks losing some four billion U.S. dollars to the banana bacterial wilt by 2010 unless efforts to prevent the fast-spreading disease are put in place, experts have warned. Researchers have discovered that the disease is transmitted by stingless bees, honeybees, grass flies and fruit flies.
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The Government is planning to promote the honey production in the country through financial assistance to people engaged in bee-keeping and setting up of testing laboratories to improve its quality.
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For the past six years, Kreimeyer, a 56-year-old exterminator from upstate New York, has happily coexisted with 60,000 bees, who live in what looks like a smaller version of a Somerville triple-decker atop Best Pest Control Services, his Elm Street business.
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Who would win in a contest between Japanese giant hornets and honeybees? Both can sting, but neither stings the other. The hornet crushes the honeybee with its mandibles. The honeybee kills the hornet through overheating. The winner depends on the homeland of the bees.
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Using a combination of high-speed digital photography and a robotic model of a bee wing, the researchers figured out the flight mechanisms of honeybees. (This news is some months old)
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SwisTrack, a tracking tool for multi-unit robotic and biological systems, is a program made to learn more about swarm behavior and make it possible to mimic it. Three years in the making, this open-source system lets researchers track multiple, mobile, marker-less miniature objects. Time to install a camera in your hive and do some analyzing work?
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Kuro5hin has an introduction to honey, what it is, and how it is produced. I guess most of the readers here won’t get any new knowledge, but since the article is well written it can be worth a look.
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