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Israelis discover cure for bee ccd-associated virus

Posted on September 23, 2008 by eivindm

An Israeli-US company Beeologics is taking rapid measures to bring to market a proprietary anti-viral agent that promises to alleviate the effects of the virus strongly associated with Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), with full-scale FDA trials commencing next month. Read … Continue reading →

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Bees can be wiped out in UK in 10 years

Posted on September 16, 2008 by eivindm

Beekeepers in the United Kingdom have warned that the country’s honeybee population could be all but wiped out within 10 years, unless the government allocates £8 million ($16 million) to fund research into identifying and eliminating threats to the industry. … Continue reading →

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An Energy Shake for Honeybees (press release)

Posted on September 10, 2008 by eivindm

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has been linked to the 40-60 percent decline in America ‘s honeybee populations whose pollination is valued at $15 billion annually to U.S. agriculture. Researchers at SAFE R&D, LLC, are trying a new approach to this … Continue reading →

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Bee researchers unveil tool to chase Colony Collapse Disorder

Posted on August 30, 2008 by eivindm

University of Montana researchers and their UM-affiliated company, Bee Alert Technology Inc., have employed a new tool created by a U.S. Army lab to discover a honeybee virus invading North America. Read More

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Germans probing whether Bayer pesticide caused honeybee colony collapse

Posted on August 28, 2008 by eivindm

A German prosecutor is investigating Werner Wenning , Bayer’s chairman, and Friedrich Berschauer , the head of Bayer CropScience , after critics alleged that they knowingly polluted the environment. Read More

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Honeybee killer may be a couple of pesticides

Posted on August 27, 2008 by eivindm

There is good news and bad news in the gardening world. Good news? Some scientists believe that the killer of honeybees has been identified as a couple of specific pesticides (both are artificial nicotine-like products) that infuse plants systemically, poisoning … Continue reading →

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Healthy Honey Bees Is Goal of Multi-Institutional Research Team

Posted on August 22, 2008 by eivindm

Greg Hunt, a Purdue apicultural researcher and geneticist, is collaborating with 19 scientists from around the country to launch an in-depth study of bees’ behavior, lives, illnesses and deaths to define the syndrome known as colony collapse disorder (CCD). The … Continue reading →

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Is the Agency Hiding Colony Collapse Disorder Information?

Posted on August 19, 2008 by eivindm

The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit today to uncover critical information that the US government is withholding about the risks posed by pesticides to honey bees. Read More

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Arizona company tries to amp up honeybees

Posted on August 18, 2008 by eivindm

The Buzz reported Friday that beekeepers nationally are continuing to lose an alarming percentage of the bees they use to commercially pollinate crops. (…) One Arizona-based company, however, says it has a solution. MegaBee: The Tucson Bee Diet is a … Continue reading →

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Bee death probe is targeting specific viruses

Posted on August 16, 2008 by eivindm

Insect virus researcher Michelle Flenniken, a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco, the newly selected Häagen-Dazs Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Davis, is hot on the trail of the killer of … Continue reading →

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