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How bees drove one firm's success

2013-11-29 01:13:20| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Bees provide the key ingredient for Greek cosmetics firm

Thousands of Minneapolis bees killed by pesticides

2013-10-08 17:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: When thousands of Minneapolis bees died last month, spilling out of the hive like they were drunk, as one apiarist put it, the University of Minnesota and the states ag department were called in. After weeks of lab tests, the scientists found the culprit: Fipronil, a widely used insecticide found in more than 50 pest-killing products. From Minnesota Daily: The University Bee Lab, the Bee Squad and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture conducted tests to confirm that pesticide had caused...

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Sugar donation will help bees survive

2013-10-08 06:51:17| Sugar Industry News

Co-operative Food in Derby Road, Stapleford, has given 70-worth of sugar to Nottinghamshire Beekeepers' Association to help feed bees at Woodthorpe Grange Park, in Sherwood, over the coming months.

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Bees cant find flowers because of your car

2013-10-03 19:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: s this a flower? As a species, we are not doing right by bees. They work so, so hard to pollinate the plants that form the basis for human existence, and, at every junction, we try to thwart them. A new study, for instance, has found that diesel fumes from cars essentially eliminate bees ability to smell flowers. If bees cant smell the flowers, they cant find them, which means they cant feed off them or pollinate them, either. The researchers found, specifically, that the nitrogen oxides in...

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