Colony Collapse Disorder
...had simply vanished. Bees as migratory labor Honeybees have been transported to crops since ancient Egyptian times. Now key to modern agriculture, honeybees have been tethered to farms ever since...
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...had simply vanished. Bees as migratory labor Honeybees have been transported to crops since ancient Egyptian times. Now key to modern agriculture, honeybees have been tethered to farms ever since...
In addition to their important work as pollinators, honey-bees produce some amazingly nutritious food products. Honey, bee pollen, propolis and royal jelly can be collected from honeybees and used for [...]
The damage antibiotics could do to our microbiome — the trillions of microbes living in our gut — is just being discovered. Crohn’s disease, celiac disease, asthma and obesity are [...]
A growing body of research points to a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids as the main culprit causing CCD. Some cities and nations are banning neonics and garden retailers across [...]
If you notice more bees on your flowering plants this spring, it might be because a neighbor has taken up the latest craze in urban farming: beekeeping. It's a growing [...]
...propolis and royal jelly can be collected from honeybees and used for a wide range of medicinal and nutritional properties. In addition to their important work as pollinators, honey-bees produce...
Ninety percent of flowering plants and 40 percent of the foods we eat depend on pollinators — mostly honeybees. They pollinate everything from almonds and apples to tomatoes and watermelon. [...]
...PCC to consider taking almond milk off the shelves because of the damage the crop does to honeybees. Perhaps whole almonds need to go, too. At the same time that...
Supreme Court to hear labeling suit, Canada sued for GE salmon, Kauai restricts GE crops, and more ...a Welsh beekeeper. Many apiarists reportedly suspect fellow beekeepers are behind the thefts. [...]
LA considers banning GE, Nut thefts continue, Modern wheat different?, and more ...New York Times) Diesel disorients honeybees Diesel pollution snuffs out floral odors, interfering with honeybees’ ability to find [...]
...recognize that by contributing directly to the health of all pollinators, most notably honeybees. There are big and little ways that the makers of plant- or honey-based products help their...
Join PCC and GloryBee Foods in saving the honeybee. Bees not only provide us with honey, but they also pollinate more than one-third of our food crops. ...complex problems facing [...]
...honeybees. They pollinate $15 billion worth of agriculture annually in our country. The delicate dance between bees and blooms begins in Washington every spring in apple orchards as honey bees...
Farm-to-School bagged apples, Meadowbrook Harvest Festival, Accelerate the Pace race, and more ...an ecology-based program for kindergarten students that focuses on honeybees. Students learn about basic insect anatomy, pollination, why [...]