The Square Mile will be buzzing with the sound of about a million extra honeybees this year.
Posted by eivindm | Posted on 11-02-2010
Tags: crime, new zealand, usa
New Zealand’s growing honey trade with the United States is in jeopardy if Australian honey products are allowed into the Kiwi market.
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.
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.
Posted by eivindm | Posted on 29-01-2010
Tags: africanized honeybees, ahb, usa
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.
Posted by eivindm | Posted on 29-01-2010
Tags: ccd, colony collapse disorder, usa
Fewer beekeepers are reporting evidence of a mysterious ailment that had been decimating the U.S. honeybee population.
Posted by eivindm | Posted on 28-01-2010
Tags: poland
A beekeeper passed out after being stung…and woke up in a pitch-black closed coffin.
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.
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.
Posted by eivindm | Posted on 24-01-2010
Tags: ccd, colony collapse disorder, usa
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.











