Tag: Bees
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Bees Prefer Working Class Gardens Over Affluent Gardens
Want to help bees? New research points to them preferring simple flowers in gardens over hybrids and cultivars.
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Why 'Kill it with Fire' Should Not be Your Reaction to a Honeybee Swarm
It's not a bee attack -- it's just a bee swarm. Here are tips on how to deal with one.
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Organic Beekeeping for Beginners: Which Hive is Best?
An introduction to organic beekeeping, including a demonstration of a rather unusual hive.
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Grow Alliums for Spring Blooms Deer and Squirrels Won't Eat
The ornamental cousins of onions grow beautiful blooms deer don't like, but you'll fall in love with.
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The Week in Animal News: Pigeons Poop Soap, Giant Pandas Won't Have Sex and More
A crazy project wants to alter pigeons' diets to make them poop soap and clean our cities. A study on panda's sex habits shows why reproductive success is so elusive and more.
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Honeybees Self-Medicate With Anti-Fungal Resins When Under Threat
A new study reveals just how sophisticated honeybees' self-defence mechanisms are, and casts doubt on human efforts to control them.
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Pesticides and High Fructose Corn Syrup Recreate "Classic" Colony Collapse Disorder in Experiments
The evidence keeps piling up that neonicotinoid pesticides are contributing to Colony Collapse Disorder. It turns out that high fructose corn syrup may play a part too.
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Two New Studies Show Neonicotinoid Pesticides Harm Bees
As evidence mounts that neonicotinoid pesticides are harmful to bees, the denials from Bayer CropSciences just keep on coming,
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Insecticide Maker Continues Charm Offensive on Beekeepers
Bayer CropScience is sending out its experts to talk to beekeeping communities. At least one beekeeper was decidedly unimpressed.
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Incredible Video Shows the Beauty of Urban Beekeeping
The Made By Hand video series returns with a stunning portrait of a Brooklyn beekeeping pioneer.
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Making Whole Hive Mead By Boiling Bees Alive
Eating insects may be catching on, but brewing up mead from dead bees? This may be a step too far...
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Maker of Controversial Insecticide Launches "Bee Care Centers". Should We Celebrate?
BayerCrop Science launches a "bee care program" to promote honeybee health. Strangely, it's press release says nothing about neonicotinoids.
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Walk Turkey's Beautiful 'Honey Road' This Summer for a Sweet Taste of Local Culture
An innovative eco-tourism project in northeast Turkey will take travelers along ancient nomadic routes to taste artisanal organic honey, meet local beekeepers, and enjoy spectacular scenery along the way.
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Bees Use Sign Language to Give Hornets the Finger
Honeybees don't just communicate with each other through "sign language". They do the same for predators to warn them off. And it works.
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The Week in Animal News: Powerful Sea Cucumber Poo, Giant Pythons Invade Florida and More
Sea cucumber poo may be the key to saving the world's great coral reefs from devastation. Invasive pythons are doing damage in the Everglades, eight sea lions were found shot to death in Washington and more.
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More Evidence That Insecticides Are Harming Our Bees
New research shows that minute doses of widely used pesticide can leave bees vulnerable to infection.
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The Week in Animal News: Panda Eats Meat, Dolphins and Whales Play, and More
A panda in China threw everyone for a loop when it was photographed eating a goat-antelope. We also have a dolphin-whale playdate, ways to save seabirds and more.
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Petition to Ban Bee Death-Linked Pesticides Gathers 1.2 Million Signatures
As evidence mounds that a certain class of pesticides is contributing to bee deaths, over a million citizens push for a global ban.
