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What\'s the Latest at Burt\'s Bees?
2014-03-26 06:00:00| Happi Breaking News
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Lord of the bees
2014-03-21 04:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: James Hung has collected more than 17,000 wild bees from coastal, desert and mountain areas of San Diego County. But many of his specimens bear little resemblance to the honey bees we normally think of as bees. To the casual observer, his bee collection looks more like a menagerie of Insects Gone Wild-gnat-sized bugs with long snouts, gigantic black bees and curious iridescent creatures with termite-like wings. "When I first started studying native bees, I really didn't know that there was this...
GMOs Are Killing the Bees, Butterflies, Birds and... ?
2014-02-14 16:18:01| Chemicals - Topix.net
"It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray."
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Bees exposed to neonic pesticides suck at gathering pollen
2014-01-31 20:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: First plant STDs, and now this? Bees these days just can`t catch a break: New research shows that bumblebees that have been exposed to neonic pesticides are hopeless when it comes to gathering food. British scientists reared commercial bumblebees for two weeks on sugar and pollen laced with imidacloprid, which is one of the world`s most commonly used insecticides. The pesticide concentration mimicked that found in farmed oil seed rape, which is grown for biofuel, vegetable oil, and animal feed....
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Australia: Bees not coping with extreme weather
2014-01-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Examiner: EXTREME weather conditions this year have wreaked havoc on the honey industry nationwide. Honey Tasmania manager Tristan Campbell says the honey season is shorter in Tasmania and apiarists across the state are averaging about 30 per cent of their annual yield. EXTREME weather conditions this year have wreaked havoc on the honey industry nationwide. The Australian Honey Bee Industry Council said this year's wet spring and hot summer would deliver the lowest national honey yields for 10 years...
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