Quality honey and some stories behind it
http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/how-to-build-an-electronic-bee-counter
How to Build an Electronic Bee CounterIEEE SpectrumBees are important: they pollinate dozens of crops, including almonds, cacao, and coffee. While there has been a lot of attention paid to Western honeybees owing to colony collapse disorder, this specific disease and others like it are really …
http://westernfarmpress.com/tree-nuts/mechanical-pollination-rarely-supplements-bee-pollination
Elizabeth Fichtner, a University of California farm advisor in Tulare County, wrote a research paper that opens with the provocative question, “Can Mechanically-Applied Pollen Either Supplement Bees or Ensure an Almond Crop in the Event of Bee Inefficacy or Unavailability? The answer?”
The answer seems to be simply “No.”
If you make a winter honeysuckle (Lonicera x purpusii) happy, it dusts itself in creamy-white, highly fragrant flowers. Like many winter-flowering species, its scent is so strong that it carries for some distance – I’ve often found myself, nose up in …
Steven Falk’s Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland has been written for both bee novices and expert recorders and researchers and also includes photography and bee artwork by Richard Lewington. Steven, who has worked as ecology officer …and more »
http://phys.org/news/2015-12-long-range-micro-backpacks-bees-vital.html
The partner organisation is The Apiary Enterprise Limited, who are keen to fund research into honey-bee tracking in both temperate and tropical environments to identify the foraging range of the bee under differing climatic and environmental conditions.Bangor University’s bee ‘backpacks’ could give decline clues…
http://phys.org/news/2015-12-long-range-micro-backpacks-bees-vital.html
The partner organisation is The Apiary Enterprise Limited, who are keen to fund research into honey-bee tracking in both temperate and tropical environments to identify the foraging range of the bee under differing climatic and environmental conditions.Bangor University’s bee ‘backpacks’ could give decline clues…
http://deltafarmpress.com/soybeans/herbicides-not-insecticides-biggest-threat-bees-beekeeper-says
Land is purple with henbit blooming. By the end of March, it’s all gone because farmers burned it down with chemicals to try to kill everything in the field before they plant,” says Johnny Thompson, vice president of the Mississippi Beekeeping …Herbicides, not insecticides are biggest threat to bees …
http://deltafarmpress.com/soybeans/herbicides-not-insecticides-biggest-threat-bees-beekeeper-says
Land is purple with henbit blooming. By the end of March, it’s all gone because farmers burned it down with chemicals to try to kill everything in the field before they plant,” says Johnny Thompson, vice president of the Mississippi Beekeeping …Herbicides, not insecticides are biggest threat to bees …
Finnish research shows ‘no immediate impact’ of neonicotinoids on beesGenetic Literacy ProjectThe GLP aggregated and excerpted this press release to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Research conducted in Finland on neonicotinoid seed treatment has yielded different results from the studies on which the European Commission’s …and more »
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/14117306.Ban_on_pesticide_which_affects_bees/?ref%3Drss
The UK government has always argued that neonicotinoid pesticides do not threaten bees. Instead it has suggested high honeybee losses in recent years are due to the parasitic varroa mite which spreads viruses, and wet summers that prevent bees from …