Youngster’s honey business booms

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Posted by eivindm | Posted on 16-08-2006

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North America

11 year old Nicholas Motz became a beekeeper at age 7, and now he owns his own honey business.

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Decision against varroa eradication

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Posted by eivindm | Posted on 14-08-2006

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Australia, NZ, Oceania

The government has decided to try to slow the spread of the varroa bee mite in the South Island rather than eradicate it.

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Senator Burns want to use bees to find landmines

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Posted by eivindm | Posted on 13-08-2006

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North America

U.S. Senator Conrad Burns wants to appropriate $5 million to use honey bees to find land mines and other buried explosives.

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Natural selection might save the bees

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Posted by eivindm | Posted on 13-08-2006

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Biology Diseases and pesticides

In a bow to Charles Darwin, wild and captive honeybees seem to be overcoming the devastating impact of parasitic mites through natural selection.

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Russian bees resistant to parasitic mites

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Posted by eivindm | Posted on 13-08-2006

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Biology Diseases and pesticides

Research conducted at the ARS Honey Bee Breeding, Genetics and Physiology Research Unit in Baton Rough, Louisiana reveals cold temperatures, tracheal mites and varroa mites, all enduring problems for honeybees, are not as effective against Russian bees. This ability to deflect or resist gives bees native to Russia an apparent advantage.

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Global warming threatens pollination timing

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Posted by eivindm | Posted on 13-08-2006

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Pollination

Dr. David Inouye, director of University of Maryland’s graduate program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology, reports that global warming could disrupt the timing of pollination in alpine environments, with serious negative impacts to both plants and pollinators.

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Honeybee brain picks up on right scent

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Posted by eivindm | Posted on 07-08-2006

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Biology

A honeybee’s ability to smell scent appears to be linked to the right side of its brain, according to a new ANU study that could show how right and left ‘handedness’ evolved in other species.

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Beehive grant program generates buzz

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Posted by eivindm | Posted on 04-08-2006

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North America Pollination

250 new beekeepers received free hives in North Carolina last year. North Carolina agriculture is dependent on bees for pollination, and supporters said honeybees accounted for $154 million each year in added agricultural produce within the state.

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Teen crashes car into hive. 10 sent to hospital

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Posted by eivindm | Posted on 04-08-2006

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North America

A swarm of up to 100,000 angry honey bees sent 10 people to the hospital including the driver of an SUV that hit a hollow tree in northeast Indiana, disturbing a hive.

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Study reveals that that bees like it hot

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Posted by eivindm | Posted on 03-08-2006

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Behavior

It has been known that bumblebees prefer their food warm and learn to locate hotter flowers using color as a cue, scientists say. But a study shows that this is also the case for honey bees.

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