CATCH THE BUZZ – MANN LAKE ACQUIRES KELLEY BEEKEEPING
HACKENSACK, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mann Lake Ltd. (“Mann Lake”) has completed a management buyout with the support of Grey Mountain Partners (“Grey Mountain”). Mann Lake is…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Canola Farmers and Beekeepers Have a Vested Interest in Cooperating and Protecting Bees as Much as Possible.
Bees love canola and canola loves bees. That’s why canola farmers and beekeepers have a vested interest in cooperating and protecting bees as much…
Read MoreCATCH THE BUZZ – Honey Integrity Task Force Forms to Ensure Highest Quality Across All Honey Products.
Industry Group is Working on Multiple Fronts to Protect Honey Purity March 12, 2019 – Representatives from the entire U.S. honey industry have formed a…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – World’s Largest Bee, Missing for 38 Years, Found in Indonesia
As long as an adult thumb, with jaws like a stag beetle and four times larger than a honey bee, Wallace’s giant bee is…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – New Research Demonstrates a Highly Sensitive Approach that Will Improve Pesticide Evaluation BEFORE it Gets Released.
British scientists are urgently calling for stricter regulations on pesticides after finding that they are affecting genes in bumblebees. Research led by Queen Mary…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – “There is a Protein in Royal Jelly that Causes Bee Stem Cells to Renew Themselves, So Queen Bees are Bigger and Contain More Cells Than Worker Bees”
Inside a hive, all females are the same when they are larval bees. Then, one female is selected as the queen bee, and she…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – A Mobile Phone Microscope Is Good Enough To Find Nosema Spores In The Field.
Researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at Barnard College, have developed a mobile-phone microscope that…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Urban Gardens and Allotments Provide Especially Good Habitat for Pollinator Communities.
By: Mike Gaworecki (Photo: The River and The Wall) Many pollinator insect species like bees, butterflies, and hoverflies are on the decline, due in…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Microscopic Nanocrystals, the Size of Pollen Grains, Used to Track the Path of Pollen from Flower to Flower.
A pollination biologist from Stellenbosch University is using quantum dots to track the fate of individual pollen grains. This is breaking new ground in…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Earning a Bee’s Wings. In Hives, Graduating to Forager a Requirement for Social Membership it is a Classic Coming-of-Age Story, in Many Ways.
By: Talia Ogliore Graduate student Cassondra Vernier conducted lab experiments and observed hours of bee interactions at the entrance to the hive. She is…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Immense Numbers of Introduced Honey Bees Overwhelm Native Pollinators for Access to Pollen and Nectar, at Least in San Diego
Non-native honey bees have established robust feral populations in San Diego, such as the pictured swarm. Honey bees currently make up 75 percent of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Healthy Hives 2020 gets a $325,000 boost from Bayer Bee Care and Project Apis M., for Honey Bee Health Research.
Research Triangle Park, N.C. Bayer and Project Apis m. today announced an additional $325,000 funding for Healthy Hives 2020, an initiative dedicated to improving…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Scientists Discover Bees Can Solve Basic Mathematical Problems.
By: Benjamin Pineros Addition, subtraction and other basic mathematical concepts have featured in human civilization for thousands of years. Now scientists have discovered that honey…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – It’s All About the Bees: Displaced Workers Find Jobs Within an Appalachian Tradition
Carolyn Fortuna, Ph.D. No one expects sustainable energy and lifestyle businesses to completely replace the fossil fuel jobs that have been lost. But advocates…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The Almond Board of California Commits to Four New Sustainability Pledges.
The Almond Board of California has committed to four new as sustainability goals that including achieving zero waste from its US orchards, reducing water…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Almond Pollination Colonies Being Stolen, Again. Know Your Beekeeper, Mark Your Hives, Hide Your Hives.
Alan Harman For some commercial beekeepers, California’s almond bloom ended before it officially started, the California Farm Bureau Federation says. The federation’s Ag Alert…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Ag Lands Have Less Diverse Pollinator Species Than Natural Lands. Go Figure.
Alan Harman Apple orchards surrounded by agricultural lands are visited by a less diverse collection of bee species than orchards surrounded by natural habitats,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – You Can Now Buy Organic Vegan Honey Made From Sweet Potatoes, And Yes, It’s As Dumb As It Sounds.
Kat Smith – News Editor – LIVEKINDLY Bee-free, vegan honey made from organic sweet potatoes is now a thing. Lovers of sweet-and-spicy combos can also…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Pollinator Stewardship Seeking a Moratorium on Neonicotinoids to Curtail Bee Losses
The Pollinator Stewardship Council, Inc. Board of Directors considered the preponderance of research concerning neonicotinoids (neonics), and is announcing their decision to call for…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – To Solve Pollinator Health Crisis, State Governments are Key.
University of Missouri-Columbia Insect pollinators are vital to the existence of almost 90 percent of the world’s flowering plants, including a large portion of…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Prairie Strips Transform Farmland Conservation Converting Low-Profit Land Brings Big Returns.
American Society of Agronomy Prairie Strips Are Composed of Native Perennial Plants and Located Across Hillslopes. Credit: Lynn Betts Modern agriculture’s large monoculture fields…
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