Beekeepers across the country report almost a quarter of the estimated 2.4 million commercial colonies have been lost since fall 2006.
Colony failure is not unusual year-to-year. Food shortages, weather, pesticide exposures and infestations by pests wipe out significant numbers of colonies every ye...
Honey bees are trapped in a Catch 22 where antibiotics used to protect them from bacterial illnesses ravaging hives are making them die from commonly used pesticides, some of which are used to ward-off bee-killing parasites.
A new study into the effect of antibiotics on honey bees adds to the resea...
Bees have a much greater economic value than is widely known, according to a scientific probe into strawberry-growing.
Strawberries pollinated by bees were of far higher commercial value than fruit that was self-pollinated or pollinated by the wind.
They were heavier, firmer and redder and had a l...
Bees are a vital part of the ecosystem. It has been falsely attributed to Albert Einstein that the great scientist and philosopher said that if the bee disappeared from the planet then man would have no more than four years to live. Einstein did not say this but the sentiment, if exaggerat...
Beekeepers across the country report almost a quarter of the estimated 2.4 million commercial colonies have been lost since fall 2006.
Colony failure is not unusual year-to-year. Food shortages, weather, pesticide exposures and infestations by pests wipe out significant numbers of colonies every ye...
Honey bees are trapped in a Catch 22 where antibiotics used to protect them from bacterial illnesses ravaging hives are making them die from commonly used pesticides, some of which are used to ward-off bee-killing parasites.
A new study into the effect of antibiotics on honey bees adds to the resea...
Bees have a much greater economic value than is widely known, according to a scientific probe into strawberry-growing.
Strawberries pollinated by bees were of far higher commercial value than fruit that was self-pollinated or pollinated by the wind.
They were heavier, firmer and redder and had a l...
