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Study: EPA-Approved GMO Insecticide Responsible for Killing Off Bees, Contaminating Entire Food Chain
Science & Tech  (tags: ethics, food, health, news, warning, bees, world )

Alice
- 47 days ago - naturalnews.com
Early last year, leaked documents obtained by a Colorado beekeeper exposed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) illegitimate approval of clothianidin, a highly-toxic pesticide manufactured by Bayer CropScience.
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GE Honeybee
Science & Tech  (tags: bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, ecosystems, environment, food, genetic modification, health, pesticides )

Julie
- 110 days ago - rodaleinstitute.org
Monsanto sets its sights on "honeybee health" acquiring a company manipulating gene expression.
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Are Regulators Doing Enough To Prevent Bee Die-Offs?
Science & Tech  (tags: bees, environment, food security, pesticides, research )

Julie
- 437 days ago - newwest.net
A veteran Colorado beekeeper is challenging the EPA to remove a widely used pesticide from the market until there's proof it isn't contributing to bee die-offs.
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Top USDA Bee Researcher Also Found Bayer Pesticide Harmful to Honeybees
Science & Tech  (tags: bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, food, pesticides, research )

Julie
- 489 days ago - grist.org
According to a report the lead researcher at the USDA's very own Bee Research Laboratory completed research two years ago suggesting that even extremely low levels of exposure to neonicotinoids makes bees more vulnerable to harm from common pathogens. ,
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Bees' Tiny Brains Able to Beat Computers at Complex Mathematical Problems
Science & Tech  (tags: Bees, brains, mathematical problems, computers )

Anna
- 578 days ago - dailymail.co.uk
Bees can solve complex mathematical problems which keep computers busy for days, research has shown.The tiny insects learn to fly the shortest possible route between flowers discovered in random order.
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Honeybees Are Very Clever in the Morning
Science & Tech  (tags: bees, discovery, flowers, food, fruits, pollination, vegetables )

Dan
- 657 days ago - bbc.co.uk
Bees are far better at finding new, fresh flowers to pollinate in the early morning hours due to their evolved brain power that enables them to forage for nectar more efficiently than before. Logged into Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.
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Who's Queen? Insulin Signaling Key to Caste Development in Bees
Science & Tech  (tags: bees, biology, queen bee, worker bee, bee caste system, insulin )

Judy
- 681 days ago - sciencedaily.com
The study shows that a key protein in the insulin signaling pathway plays a strong role in caste development among bees.
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Bees Fight Back Against Colony Collapse Disorder
Science & Tech  (tags: honey, bees, Colony, Collapse, Disorder, genetic, trait, science, research, technology, investigation, environment, discovery, wildlife, protection, endangered, hybrid, colonies, Varroa, mites )

Tom
- 963 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Honey bees are now fighting back aggressively against Varroa mites, thanks to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) efforts to develop bees with a genetic trait that allows them to more easily find the mites and toss them out of the broodnest.
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Group Sounds Alarm on European Bee Industry
Science & Tech  (tags: Bees, pesticides, disease, pollination, food crops, crisis )

Suri
- 1119 days ago - nytimes.com
Europe's beekeeping industry could be wiped out in less than a decade as bees fall victim to disease, insecticides and intensive farming, the international beekeeping body Apimondia said on Monday.
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Honeybee Research Gets Vital Boost
Science & Tech  (tags: Bees, bee colony decline, research, assistance, fuding )

Suri
- 1128 days ago - treehugger.com
Despite Haagen Dazs' Help the Honeybees campaign, despite Burt's Bees efforts to save the bees, despite the fact that Barack Obama has become a beekeeper - honeybees are still in trouble.
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Ozone Might Help Make Bee Hives Cleaner And Safer
Science & Tech  (tags: ozone, bees, hives, pesticide, microbes )

Jan
- 1460 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Ozone, which is already used to sanitize drinking water and swimming pools, might help make hives cleaner and safer for America's beleaguered honey bees.
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Mystery Virus Killing Bees
Science & Tech  (tags: bees, virus )

Ben
- 1493 days ago - blogmyway.org
Honey bees could die out in ten years as a mystery virus has been killing them off in the UK and US. Copyright c 2008 BBC<br />
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Vanishing Honeybee Colonies Continue to Trouble Virginia
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, study, environment, investigation, beekeeper, bees, colonies, colony, disorder, genetic, honeybee, mites, miticide, parasite, populations, Virginia )

J.
- 1531 days ago - vtnews.vt.edu
Blacksburg, Va.- Research info from Virginia Cooperative Extension found that the Israel Acute Paralysis Virus, a pathogen that beekeepers may have imported from outside the U.S., plays a bigger role in [Colony Collapse Disorder] than originally thought.
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Native Bees Could Fill Pollinator Hole Left By Honeybees
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, bees, pollination )

Sharon
- 1537 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Native bees offer an alternative to wild honeybees and cultured honeybees because they are resistant to both the varroa and tracheal mites. And because they do not live in hives, native bees are not at risk of being overcome by Africanized bees.
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Tiny Tags Track Brainy Bumblebees
Science & Tech  (tags: study, science, research, bees )

Tia
- 1549 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
In a labortory in the heart of the east end of london, an unmistakeable buzz fills the air..
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