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POPSKeeping Bees - "Beekeeping for Beginners" Review I have to admit, I really did not know much about bees or keeping bees except they can sting and they make honey. This was the extent of my knowledge until reading the e-book, "Beekeeping for Beginners". The book was really interesting and I learned a great deal from it. I now feel I could start home beekeeping and enjoying all the benefits that brings. It is nice to know a few things about bees that most people do not as well.
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POPSHoney at risk of GE contamination The pressure will be on to use genetically altered plants because of higher yields. The nutritional value of those "Yields" may be lower because that seems to be the last objective.
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POPSNew film seeks answer to mystery of vanishing bees Other factors could also contribute, it added, including the fact that bees are being transported long distances to pollinate single crops, or monocultures, rather than producing honey. "They are one of our most ancient allies," Henein said in an interview in London. "We actually depend on honey bees to eat. May be out of selfishness it raises a red flag." Langworthy added: "It's a broader issue about the system of agriculture. People are going to have to rethink it and maybe they don't want to. It really will have to be driven by the general public's call for change."
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POPSBe Bee Safe! Whether you are allergic to bees or not, you should be aware of their presence, especially in the heat of the summer.
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POPSThe REAL "Inconvenient Truth": Cell Phones and Bee Colony Collapse
Honey bees are in effect saying, "Can you hear us now?" The consequences of inaction on this are real and enormous. But unlike oil, coal or "carbon emissions", not even Al Gore or Obama will advocate giving up or curbing cell phones or towers, even though the hard facts on this are much more threatening to agriculture, and by consequence human life, the economy of foods, and the entire eco-system than the mythical "global warming" doomsday scenerio. Cell phones are America's and the world's unnecessary CONVENIENCE that apparently are not even being debated by the Climate people, willing to sacrifice the pollination of food crops by honey bees for cell chat. The buzz is real, but governments are not moving to regulate, and are likely too afraid of consumers who do not care about consequences any more than those who throw fast food trash out the window of their cars. There is also hard evidence of radiation from cell phones directly damaging human health.
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POPSAll Natural Raw Honey This raw honey is from a small family owned business with a history of raising bees going back three generations. They provide only the hightest quality honey havested from their own bees. Their goal is to provide honey that has no additives and is as close to the raw natural state as permitted.
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POPSUS drones sting Bin Laden
more: America's Bee Heroes: Mission Timeline Wednesday 00:20: Special Bee Unit 2319 departs the Hidalgo Special Forces Apiary, and flies 13,000 km to the 51st AIG outside Kabul, Afghanistan. Drones are accompanied by two KC-45 tanker aircraft, filled with honey, for in-air refueling. 23:45: The bee unit touches down on the ultraviolet-coated runway of 51st AIG. Bees are escorted by armored personnel carrier to hive 51, classified operations area, for prep. Thursday 02:50: The drones are "unmanned" - military terminology for the surgical removal of their tiny bee gonads. The sex organs are replaced by sharp stingers, normally absent on male bees. The operation is carried out on by surgeons disguised as Osama Bin Laden. Bees are filled with frustration and anger at the loss of their male beehood, which will cause them to attack when they encounter the real Bin Laden. 03:55: Bees are removed from surgery and placed in small wax cells for recovery. 14:30: Drones are ta
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POPSHoney Bees, Hives, Propolis & Social Immunity
In experiments funded by the US National Science Foundation, Simone's team painted the inside walls of hives with an extract of propolis collected from Brazil or Minnesota. This inside layer mimicked how propolis or resins would be distributed in a feral colony nesting in a tree cavity. They then created colonies of honeybees and housed either in hives enriched with resin, or hives without the resin layer - to act as a control. After one week of exposure they collected bees that had been born in each colony. Honeybee propolis Propolis is a mixture of resins and wax Genetic tests on these 7-day-old bees showed that those growing in the resin-rich colonies had less active immune systems. "The resins likely inhibited bacterial growth. Therefore the bees did not have to activate their immune systems as much," said Simone. "Our finding that propolis in the nest allows bees to invest less in their immune systems after such a short exposure was surprising. Resins in the hive
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POPSHoney, I Killed the Superbug A message for people who think that local ecologies are not significant in the grand scheme of things. If the tree became extinct, this stuff wouldn't exist (the source doesn't mention whether the bee species is also specific to this type of honey. This makes the decline in the bee population over the last couple of years a matter of even more concern. Undoubtedly, there are people who would, without this information, consider either the trees or the bees not worth saving were they endangered. As they used to say, "Bee healthy; eat your honey!"
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POPSBees buzz parked plane in Beverly Wilkins said the windy day may have forced the swarm down as it came across the airport. The queen, who is not used to flying long distances, may have stopped to rest, and the other bees congregated around to protect her. The bees usually have a destination picked out in advance. Wilkins, the past president of the Essex County Bee Association, and his wife, Linda, live on Mill Street in Middleton, and in April their hives were plundered by a black bear. A motion-activated camera captured an image of the bear milling about their backyard. It destroyed about eight hives, costing them hundreds of dollars. "This is replacing the hives (the bear) ate," Wilkins said of the bees he picked up in Danvers.
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POPS A Cure For Honey Bee Colony Collapse? The loss of honey bees could have an enormous horticultural and economic impact worldwide. Honeybees are important pollinators of crops, fruit and wild flowers and are indispensable for a sustainable and profitable agriculture as well as for the maintenance of the non-agricultural ecosystem. Honeybees are attacked by numerous pathogens including viruses, bacteria, fungi and parasites. For most of these diseases, the molecular pathogenesis is poorly understood, hampering the development of new ways to prevent and combat honeybee diseases. So, any progress made in identifying causes and subsequent treatments of honey bee colony collapse is invaluable. "Now that we know one strain of parasite that could be responsible, we can look for signs of infection and treat any infected colonies before the infection spreads" said Dr Higes, principle researcher.
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POPSThe Wild Side "Instead we are killing them off in their billions through our befouling of their environment. The honeybee brain has only a million or so neurons, several orders of magnitude less than ours. It is a moot point as to whether humans or honeybees make the best use of their neuronal resource."
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POPSResearch money has beekeepers buzzing "While beekeepers are glad that the government has recognised the scale of the problem, they say there has historically been a lack of funding for bee research. Vital staff have been lost, and their skills take time to replace. Mr Lovett points out that the vast majority of hives are kept by amateur beekeepers, with just a few hives each; and if dying bee colonies become too widespread they will simply give up their hobby. "This announcement has come at the 11th hour," says Mr Lovett. "We all just hope the research will come in time."
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POPSBeekeeping Beginners - How Do Bees Make Honey? The first thing Honeybees do is Gather the Nectar. The Field bees which are the older bees leave the colony to gather nectar from any plant that has flowers. Nectar is comprised of a approximately 80% water and it also contains complex sugars that is produced by flowers.
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