Honey Bees Resilience for Business
How Businesses Can Build Resilience Natalie Blyth, Opinion A bee sting nearly killed me. My passion for beekeeping therefore comes as a surprise to…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The Latest Addition to Minecraft Recently Has Been The Arrival of, You Guessed It, Bees! Everything You Wanted to Know.
Zachary Boddy Even ten years after its initial beta release Minecraft continues to evolve at an increasingly rapid pace in its quest to develop…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Beescape.org Allows Users to Select a Specific Location and Obtain Landscape-Quality Scores for the Surrounding Region, Up to 5 Kilometers Away.
Images from the “methodology” page on Beescape.org. University Park, Pa. — A new online tool and community, called Beescape, enables beekeepers, or anyone interested in bees,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Beescape.Org Allows Users to Select a Specific Location and Obtain Landscape-Quality Scores for the Surrounding Region, Up to 5 Kilometers Away.
Images from the “methodology” page on Beescape.org. UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A new online tool and community, called Beescape, enables beekeepers, or anyone interested in bees,…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Fish and Bees “Talk” with Help from Robot Translators.
Jef Akst One-day-old honey bees gather around a heat-emitting robot (left) while zebrafish swim with a robot in a donut-shaped aquarium. When the bee…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Non-Native Plants in Homeowners’ Yards Endanger Wildlife – Both Birds and Bees, UD Researchers Report.
University of Delaware Image: Researchers Studied the Impact of Non-Native Plants on the Carolina Chickadee, an Ideal Representative for Bird Species in the Eastern and…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Revered as a Humanitarian and Scientist, Warwick Kerr was also blamed for the introduction of aggressive Africanized bees to the Americas
Vijay Shankar Balakrishnan, In the Scientist Brazilian entomologist Warwick Estevam Kerr died on September 15 in São Paulo at age 96. Kerr leaves behind…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Comparative Pollination Efficacies of Five Bee Species on Raspberry Show Honey Bees Doing Just Fine.
Unlike many other rosaceous fruit crops, commercial raspberry cultivars are largely self-fertile and mostly self-pollinate autogamously. However, their floral morphology does not allow for…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Comparative Pollination Efficacies of Five Bee Species on Raspberry Show Honey Bees Doing Just Fine.
Unlike many other rosaceous fruit crops, commercial raspberry cultivars are largely self-fertile and mostly self-pollinate autogamously. However, their floral morphology does not allow for…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Man-Made Disturbances to Habitats are Creating Problems for Pollinator Communities, Including Significant Biodiversity Loss.
Green sweat bee or “peridot bee” If you’re moving pollen from one plant to another, you might be a pollinator. Pollinators come in all…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – USDA Disaster Recovery Assistance Applications Now Open
By: Natalina Sents Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced Monday that farmers and ranchers who suffered damage from hurricanes and wildfires in 2017 may…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The SEED A LEGACY Program Provides A Unique Opportunity To Establish High Quality Pollinator Habitat.
Critical pollinator and wildlife habitat is disappearing. YOU can help reverse the trend! New in 2018! The SEED A LEGACY program provides a unique…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Psyllid Zapper, Resistant Trees Among Tactics To Combat Florida’s Citrus Greening.
Paul Ivice – THE NEWS-PRESS The Asian citrus psyllid is seen in this University of Florida photo provided by the University of California, Davis….
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Cautious Optimism for Sufficient Bee Colonies for Almond Pollination.
With pollination season fast approaching, almond growers should already have pollination contracts in place. As California’s producing almond acreage continues…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Animals That Travel Between Multiple Destinations And Return To A Home Face The Travelling Salesman Problem.
LONDON — As bees gain foraging experience they continually refine both the order in which they visit flowers and the flight paths they take…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – A Protein Produced By Honey Bees Could Inspire The First New Antibiotic In 30 Years.
Health officials are desperate for new antibiotics as dangerous bacterial strains strengthen their resistance against long-used drugs. Every year in the United States, 2…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – New Texas A&M AgriLife sweet clover variety – Silver River Sweet clover – paradise for pollinators
By Adam Russell, Texas A&M ALOGA, OKLAHOMA – Donning his beekeeper suit, Charles Touchstone, of Arapaho, Oklahoma, stepped a few feet inside a buzzing…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – 1,000 Acres Of Iowa Land Donated For Honey Bee Forage
By Paul Te A small city in Iowa has taken an action to save the bees from extinction. Acres of land were donated to…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – Help bees by restoring natural landscapes, roadside planting, green belts, green roofs and urban gardening initiatives.
By Bill Hicks SUISUN CITY — As a county with an economy strongly tied to agriculture, Solano County should care greatly about the health and…
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CATCH THE BUZZ – The secret lives of London’s bees will be uncovered. London bee tracking project begins.
Queen Mary University of London Hundreds of bees with individual coloured number tags will be released from the rooftops of Queen Mary University of…
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