ApinewsNews about bees and beekeeping from around the world

With summer right around the corner, soon the Honey Bees, Yellow Jackets, Wasps, and other stinging insects will again be out and about.

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Local bee keepers are getting the word out about protecting hives that could be near your home or yard.

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Beekeepers said just a teaspoon of locally harvested honey each day can produce results within a week. It relieves allergies by helping the body build up a natural immunity to local allergens.

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Fred Fulton is still shaking his head from the sting of losing half the 100,000 bees he had on his Montgomery property.

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In parts of the U.S. bees are going gangbusters and looking like they are supposed to look in early April … strong, ready, willing and able. But in the more northern parts of the U.S the season isn’t as advanced and the answers aren’t quite as clear.

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The California winter has been a tough one on South Dakota beekeepers like Richard Adee. Last fall he sent 155 semitrailer trucks to California loaded with hives containing bees fit and ready to pollinate the almond crop.

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Gro Amdam, associate professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, has been awarded two grants totaling the U.S. equivalent of about $1.4 million from the Norwegian Research Council to investigate biochemical factors and social life history properties that can influence aging and longevity in honeybees.

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A government report shows the state’s honey production at 13.2 million pounds was third largest in the nation. North Dakota had the biggest crop at 31 million pounds. California was second, just slightly ahead of South Dakota.

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Third-generation beekeeper Roscoe Hall spent the last year fretting over a disease that’s inexplicably caused thousands of his industrious insects to abandon their colonies.

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The senate almost unanimously passed a bill making it cheaper for honey beekeepers to operate. This is good news for local orchards.

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