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Osaka Company Employees Breed Bees To Help Environment
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Naoko
- 257 days ago - mdn.mainichi.jp
OSAKA - A group here has created a buzz with its latest "green" project -- breeding bees on the roofs of company buildings.
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Cool Things About Honeybees
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Cher
- 613 days ago - all-creatures.org
The queen mates "once" (over a few days) in her life with 7-17 drones (males), who actually sort of explode and die. She stores the sperm for years (Winston, 209). She lays 1,000 to 1,500 eggs a day (Bonney, 29); unfertilized eggs become drones and
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Rare Bumblebee Spreads Its Wings
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Cher
- 615 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
One of Britain's rarest and most endangered bumblebees has been discovered on a Worcestershire nature reserve. The severely threatened brown-banded carder bee is usually only found in small pockets in the South East but was recently discovered on a
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Keeping Track of Invading Tree Bee
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Cher
- 723 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Worcestershire's wildlife enthusiasts are being asked to keep a look out for a new bee. The Bombus hypnorum, or tree bee, arrived in the UK in 2001 and has been steadily working its way north, reaching Northumberland last year.
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Beekeepers Lose One Sixth of Hives
Offbeat  (tags: Disease, bad weather, poor nutrition, bees )

Lone
- 734 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
The losses are much higher than the natural rate of up to 10 per cent and reflect growing concerns that bee numbers are falling in Britain. However, beekeepers are optimistic that colonies are in better shape than previous years, especially after such
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Manx Bees to Save Dying British Colonies
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Cher
- 743 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Queen bees from the Isle of Man are to be posted to Britain in an effort to bolster dwindling hive populations
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Llamas and Bees Make Unlikely Bodyguards for Endangered Wildlife
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Cher
- 748 days ago - animals.change.org
The newest guard dogs protecting birds at the Marshside nature reserve are ... llamas? Willy and Jack have been recruited to keep predators away from the eggs and chicks of threatened species, particularly the lapwing and redshank. The pair of llamas are
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Elephants' Newly Discovered Fear of Bees Could Help Prevent Run-Ins With African Farmers
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Cher
- 751 days ago - latimesblogs.latimes.com
Lore has it that elephants are afraid of mice, but scientists have now discovered that elephants are truly afraid of bees -- and that the pachyderms even sound an alarm when they encounter them. The researchers hope this discovery can help save farmers'
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Further Honey Bee Losses in USA
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Cher
- 752 days ago - wildlifeextra.com
Losses of managed honey bee colonies across the USA totalled 33.8 percent from all causes last winter (October 2009 to April 2010), according to a survey conducted by the Apiary Inspectors of America (AIA) and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
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Elephants Make Alarm Calls to Warn of Approaching Bees! Video!
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Cher
- 759 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Elephants produce a rumbling alarm call that warns of the threat of approaching bees, scientists have found.
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Patsaling's Bee-Keeping Side Business
Offbeat  (tags: Bhutan, village, organic vegetable, bees, bee keeping )

Naoko
- 776 days ago - kuenselonline.com
If Tsirang is fast becoming organic vegetable dzongkhag of the country, farmers have better and sweeter thing to offer to Bhutanese consumers. Walk past Patsaling village ad it's not farmers who greet visitors, but swarms of bees that buzz around.
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Ariz. Women in Critical Condition After Hundreds of Bee Stings
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Lady
- 798 days ago - abcnews.go.com
Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Jonathan Jacobs declined to disclose their names, but said the two women, who were about 55 years old and 75 years old, were out for an evening stroll when the bee swarm descended, stinging them hundreds of times.
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Honey Bees Secret World of Heat Revealed
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Cher
- 804 days ago - telegraph.co.uk
Honey bees precisely control the temperature inside their hives to determine which job their young will perform in the colony when mature, new research has revealed.
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Bees Fight to Death Over Females! Video!
Offbeat  (tags: animals, bees, killing, mating, males, females, environment )

Cher
- 926 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
It is rare for any species of animal to regularly kill its own in combat. However, male Dawson's bees, one of the world's largest bee species, are so aggressive that they kill each other en masse in a bid to mate with females.
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How You Can Help the "Why Honey Is Not Vegan" Site
Offbeat  (tags: honey, bees, vegans, environment )

Cher
- 956 days ago - animalrights.change.org
We haven't had the honey conversation on this blog yet, and it tends to be an issue vegans discuss more among themselves than with others, for better or for worse. But there's a widely cited resource out there where you can get solid, thoughtful
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