The Honey Bee Paradox
Algemeiner
The paradox that kosher honey comes from a non-kosher honey bee suggests more than meets the eye. In a recent documentary series on 'shapes in nature' mathematician Marcus DuSautoy did a great job revealing honeycombs hexagon shape, which he declared …

Honey bee invasion stirring up problems at Volusia Co. mobile home park
WFTV Orlando
Thousands of bees are invading and stinging residents at a Volusia County mobile home community. The bees live on a property in Deltona, across Interstate 4, but they're drawn to the Country Village community pool off Hollow Ridge Drive, residents said …

N.C. prepares for swarm of Africanized bees
StarNewsOnline.com
By Jim Ware If it weren't true, the history of the Africanized honey bee would sound like the plot from a B horror film. A 1956 research experiment with African bees in Brazil goes wrong, releasing the bees into the wild. The African bees mate with …

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Collaborator of Honey Bee network in Gujarat gets lifetime achievement award
Daily News & Analysis
By DNA Correspondent | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA Amrut Agrawat, one of the senior members and collaborators of Honey Bee network in Gujarat, has received Hermes Innovation award at the sixth national biennial award function of National Innovation …

The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Bees
KETK
Best Bees™ delivers, installs, and manages honey bee hives to residents of eastern Massachusetts. 100% of their profits go to fund their research to improve honey bee health through their Apivax™ line of products. Their motto is, "Together, …

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Amazing annual honey bee swarm hits Staten Island
SILive.com
STATEN ISLAND, NY — Of all the routine spectacles of spring — leaves, flowers, roadway potholes – the one most likely to widen the eyes of the beholder is the annual honey bee swarm, a three-week period, usually in May, when tens of thousands of …

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What is killing honey bees?
CNN (blog)
I earned my Ph.D. in biology last year from Tufts University, with a focus on honey bee health. Whenever I give talks about my research and the ongoing crisis with honey bees, I like to open the floor up to hear new ideas from audience members.
Sheffield Women answer call to be Queen BeeThe Star
A sweet hobby–the life of a beekeeperNorthJersey.com

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Sheffield Women answer call to be Queen Bee
The Star
Environmental regeneration charity Groundwork Sheffield is running BeeBuddies, a one-year project aiming to restore dwindling honey bee populations in urban areas of the city. In Sheffield only 44 beekeepers, managing 162 hives, are currently …
'Accidental Bee Keeper' is Your Weston NeighborThe Daily Weston
Bees 'N Bugs at the Dixon May FairPatch.com

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The nerve poison harming our bees
Telegraph.co.uk
Admittedly, the quantities involved are minute: in lab studies, the single LD50 dose (ie that kills 50 per cent of dosed individuals) is about 100 times the amount a honey bee might acquire from a day's nectar-foraging. But a single bee might visit a …
Bees are being killed: beekeepers take first step to sue EPA over pesticidesWashington Times

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A sweet hobby–the life of a beekeeper
NorthJersey.com
The New Jersey Department of Agriculture (DOA) estimates there are about 10000 colonies in the state, which represents a $2.5 million honey bee industry. The bees play an important part in agriculture because they cross-pollinate different plants, …