Honey bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr., emeritus professor and former chair man of the Department of Entomology, UCD, is a newly elected member of the oldest scientific academy of science, the Germany Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
German scientists believe that honey bees could be used to protect crops from pests such as caterpillars, a finding that could eliminate the necessity for potentially harmful insecticides.
Posted by eivindm | Posted in Europe | Posted on 06-10-2008
Tags: germany, natural beekeeping
Germany’s largest beekeeper and honey producer, Guenter Friedmann, is not merely concerned with the practical aspects beekeeping. He considers the biological and spiritual factors in a dynamic economic system to be equally important facets of his successful business.
Posted by eivindm | Posted in Diseases and pesticides, Europe | Posted on 28-08-2008
Tags: bayer, ccd, colony collapse disorder, germany, pesticides
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.
Posted by eivindm | Posted in Europe | Posted on 27-08-2008
Tags: germany, pesticides
The German organization Coalition against Bayer Dangers today brought legal action against Werner Wenning, chairman of the Bayer AG Board of Management, by filing a charge against him with the public prosecutor in Freiburg.
Posted by eivindm | Posted in Diseases and pesticides, Europe | Posted on 03-07-2008
Tags: germany, rfid
Professor Juergen Tautz and his team at the University of Wurzburg in Germany are studying the health of more than 150,000 bees, in the hope of halting the apparently inexorable decline in their worldwide population.
Posted by eivindm | Posted in Business, Europe, North America | Posted on 04-06-2008
Tags: crime, germany, import, usa
Two executives of a German-based company have been arrested on federal charges of conspiring to import honey contaminated with an illegal antibiotic from China, authorities announced Tuesday.
Posted by eivindm | Posted in Diseases and pesticides, Europe | Posted on 28-05-2008
Tags: germany, pesticides
The German Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) has ordered the immediate suspension of the approval for eight seed treatment products due to the mass death of bees in Germany’s Baden-Wuerttemberg state.
Posted by eivindm | Posted in Diseases and pesticides, Europe | Posted on 18-05-2008
Tags: ccd, colony collapse disorder, germany, pesticides
Bee colonies have begun dying off in alarming numbers all around the world. The collapse of bee populations has multiple causes, none of which have easy remedies, a German biology professor has warned.
Posted by eivindm | Posted in Diseases and pesticides, Europe | Posted on 15-05-2008
Tags: ccd, colony collapse disorder, germany, pesticides
Bees in the German state of Baden-Württemburg are dying by the hundreds of thousands. In some places more than half of hives have perished. Government officials say the causes are unclear — but beekeepers are blaming new pesticides.
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