Beekeeping News
Ask Pablo - Salon
I am still haunted by colony collapse disorder (CCD). I know the scientists are studying it, but is there anything that I and other individuals can do to help the bees? The mysterious disappearance of honeybees in North America has been truly ...
Beetle pesticide raises a new buzz - Worcester Telegram & Gazette
LEICESTER— The injection of the pesticide imidacloprid into healthy maples near those infested by the Asian longhorned beetle may be welcome news to shade tree lovers, but Worcester beekeepers are worried and some are planning on moving their hives ...
What's Bugging You? - Apalachicola Times
Africanized honey bees are a growing problem in Florida. On Sept. 4, the University of Florida Extension Service office in Wakulla in conjunction with Wakulla Emergency Management, sponsored a workshop, broadcast using PolyCom video conferencing ...
Healthy honey bees is goal of multi-institutional research team - Rushville Republican
WEST LAFAYETTE — 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 ...
Lecture at Cary emphasizes the importance of bees - Daily Freeman & Sunday Freeman
"The honeybee is basically the thermometer of the environment," David Hackenberg astutely pointed out during his lecture on Michael Shacker's 2008 book, "A Spring Without Bees: How Colony Collapse Disorder Has Endangered Our Food Supply." The Cary ...
Wildlife Speaker Series: The Secret Life of Bees - East Bay
Lynn Davignon of the Rhode Island Beekeeper’s Association, presents The Secret Life of Bees, an introduction to the science of beekeeping, covering the ecology of honeybees, their importance to humans, as well as a discussion on the decline in bee ...
The Accidental Particle - Slate
When the honeybees disappeared this winter, the thought of losing such a fuzzy and adorable animal inspired dismay. The fact that bees might also be useful drove us to despair. The first official reports of "colony collapse disorder" began to surface ...
Volunteers all abuzz over beehive project - Free Lance-Star
Walker Broyles (in red) and other members of the Rappahannock Beekeeping Association tap in small finish nails to secure frames (below) which will eventually be used in one of the state's five new apiary sites. photos by REZA MARVASHTI/THE FREE LANCE ...