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Saving honey bees
2016-09-22 01:06:42| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A look at the tech firms helping to save and protect the honey bee, as numbers of the vital pollinators continue to fall sharply around the world.
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Radio Frequency ID Tags On Honey Bees Reveal Hive Dynamics
2014-07-24 09:32:12| rfglobalnet Home Page
Scientists attached radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags to hundreds of individual honey bees and tracked them for several weeks. The effort yielded two discoveries: Some foraging bees are much busier than others; and if those busy bees disappear, others will take their place.
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Honey bees crucial to many crops still dying at worrisome rate: USDA
2014-05-19 17:07:14| Chemicals - Topix.net
Honey bees, crucial in the pollination of many U.S. crops, are still dying off at an worrisome rate, even though fewer were lost over the past winter, according to a government report issued on Thursday.
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Honey bees under threat: a political pollinator crisis
2013-05-08 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The recent revival in controversies surrounding dying honey bees has brought global attention to issues farmers, beekeepers, politicians and environmental campaigners have long been aware of. Honey bees are in danger. Honey bees play a critical role in pollinating the crops people eat and, as such are both part of the big business of agriculture and a big business in their own right. Bees are important, environmentally and economically. The debate over what to do about dying honey bees is one...
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