Quality honey and some stories behind it
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UC DavisForager bees ‘turn on’ gene expression to protect against microorganisms, toxinsUC DavisWhen honeybees shift from nurse bees to foragers, or from caring for the brood to foraging for nectar and pollen, the bees “turn on” gene expression with products that protect against microorganisms and degrade toxins, three University of California …
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/how-to-grow/how-to-attract-bees-to-your-garden/
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How to attract bees to your garden
Reduce – or preferably stop – using pesticides altogether. Garden chemicals containing the neonicotinoids thiacloprid and acetamiprid, which are still approved for home garden use, are available today at most garden centres and DIY stores. Read the label.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-epa-pesticide-20151113-story.html
EPA bans sale of pesticide that’s toxic to honey bees
It’s the end of the line for sulfoxaflor, a pesticide used on a wide array of produce, but that has been found to be toxic to honey bees that are crucial to pollination of crops. The federal Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday officially …and more »
http://www.psfk.com/2015/11/honey-nut-cheerios-living-billboard-filled-with-bees.html
PSFK (blog)Honey Nut Cheerios Living Billboard Filled With BeesPSFK (blog)Honey Nut Cheerios is celebrating its real honey ingredient with a living billboard home to more than 100,000 honeybees. The three-story free-standing structure features the words “Made with Real Honey,” spelled out using the honey produced from …
Yorkshire PostBeekeeping: Learning how to use wax the hard way. There’s plenty of evidence that for much of history beekeepers were every bit as interested in the wax that bees produce as they were in any honey crop. Honey was a nice luxury, a very valuable preservative and an important antiseptic. Wax was close to …
Western Daily PressScientists discover that male bumblebees are the worker bees rather than femalesWestern Daily PressThe female of the species may think they do all the work, but now scientists have discovered that males are just as good at multi-tasking – at least in bumblebees. Female worker bees perform all the labour such as, cleaning the hive, defending the …
This year I attended the National Honey show. I readily attend the lectures, except when I can’t because the room gets too full. As I missed 2 and one was cancelled I was determined not to miss Mr Goulson’s lecture on pesticides and pollitics; I was in my seat 30 mins early. Unfortunately Mr Goulson had a double puncture on the M25 and was 30 mins late. We had an excellent impromptu talk about honey hunters in Nepal, and then the original lecture started. Unfortunately the camera people who video all the talks in the lecture hall had decided to take an early end to the day in light of the late start, so there is no record of what was a very good talk.
For other talks you can see them on the lectures videos page. At time of writing it has just got some from 2014 and 2013, but the others should arrive soon for 2015.
Friends of the Earth bee campaigner Dave Timms said: “It’s extremely disappointing that our application to challenge the Government’s decision to …
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/uog-sew103015.php
Study explores what we know about how neonicotinoids affect bees University of …EurekAlert (press release)”The extent to which neonicotinoid insecticides harm bees and other insect pollinators is one of the most contentious questions that environmental policymakers have to grapple with today,” said U of G environmental sciences professor Nigel Raine, who …and more »
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The Economic Voice (blog)Bees: National Pollinator Strategy needs strengthening says Bee CoalitionThe Economic Voice (blog)The report Policies for Pollinators, criticises the Government for failing to respond to a plethora of new studies linking the use of neonicotinoid insecticides with harm to bees. The Coalition says it’s neither credible nor possible to protect bees …