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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 …
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 …
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 …
Popularity of urban beekeeping not helping to make up for declining . The popularity of urban beekeeping is not helping to make up for declining countryside populations, according to new research. The report also found that city-dwelling honey bees are three times less likely to survive than their feral cousins. This …
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
and pollinators whilst failing to act sufficiently on pesticides.
http://phys.org/news/2015-11-vibrating-bees-state-hive.html
Researchers from Nottingham Trent University, in the United Kingdom, have now developed and tested a new prototype device that can remotely monitor hive activity without disturbing the bees. The device picks up and analyzes vibrations from special types of bee vocalizations, such as the common one called a “begging signal.” It has successfully tracked changes in bee activity from day to night, and seasonally, by monitoring the occurrences of this specific signal.