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80Where are the Honey Bees? The Tragedy of Colony Collapse Disorder
Where are the honey bees, and what is colony collapse disorder? Honey bees in North America have been disappearing, and nobody knows why. This issue has been labeled Colony Collapse Disorder, and researchers have yet to get to the root of the problem. What is happening to the honey bees, why are they vanishing, and what can we do to save them?
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84Bee Suppliers: How the Honeybee and Queen Supply Industry is Structured
Every spring beekeepers buy thousands of queens, packages and nucs to start new colonies or to replace dead ones. An entire industry of bee suppliers, composed of producers, resellers, and breeders, has developed to meet the demand for honeybees. ...
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81When Bees Are Most Likely To Sting: Honeybee Colonies and Their Moods
Bees can sting, we all know that. And, let’s be honest, everybody knows that females of any species can be a bit moody. Apply this dictum to a colony of honeybees, which are nearly all female, and the occasional bee sting is inevitable. While the...
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85Bee, Wasp, or Yellow Jacket?
I have to confess, it's a huge pet peeve of mine when people call wasps and yellow jackets "bees." I'm not even a beekeeper, I guess it just upsets me because it gives bees a bad rap... and they're having enough trouble already without people...
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75Miss Daisy's Quilting Bee And It's Honey
In many parts of the country, the old-fashioned quilting bee is a thing of the past. it is an activity many young people have only heard of, even in today's rurual communities. It has gone to keep company...
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72The Life of a Honey Bee
from http://blogs.cas.suffolk.edu Honeybees are one of the most amazing insects ever to inhabit this planet. Many people hate honeybees due to their painful sting. It's hard to outrun these creatures as they...
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74Bee Inspired in The Literature Of Honey
What Has Literature Got To Do With It? - Everything The widest read and written literature in the world, next to that of man and his affairs, is the literature about the life of an insect. From the earliest days of learning down to now, poets, philosophers, scientists, and common observers have written of the life of bees. No other creature, save man himself has inspired so splendid and lengthy of tribute after tribute. Hyginus, Euhemerus, Virgil, Aristotle, Euthronis, Maro, and Shamash-sh
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73Bees: Hives, Honey and Stings!
Honeybee loads up with pollen and nectar to the satisfaction of the bloom. . A tiny word that can be made even more humble by replacing it with the second letter of the alphabet, “B,” hardly compliments...
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70The plight of the bumblebee
"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years left to live."- Albert Einstein. Incredible to think that the fate of mankind lies in the hands of a small insect that no-one notices or cares about. Does...
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63A tiny parasitic fly is endangering the survival of the honeybee
The honeybee has not had the best luck the last few years.Countless numbers were killed off by mites and now a new threat to their survival has surfaced. A parasitic fly lands on the honeybee then injects its eggs in the bees abdomen. Several days...
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