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Science & Tech News tagged with bees

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
- 51 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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Rethinking the Bee's Waggle Dance
Science & Tech  (tags: bees, scientists, research, interesting, environment, discovery )

Daphna
- 66 days ago - newscientist.com
WHEN Karl von Frisch decoded the secret language of bees in 1946, even he couldn't quite believe what he had found. Was it really possible for a creature with a brain smaller than a pinhead to do something so clever? "It is conceivable that some people wi
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Research on the Honeybee Crisis: What's Missing?
Science & Tech  (tags: bees, environment, habitat, humans, research, science )

Daphna
- 71 days ago - planetgreen.discovery.com
Honeybees have been an increasing focus of scientists and news outlets lately, so public awareness has grown of colony collapse disorder and the threats facing today's bee populations. But the cause is still unknown, and the research continues. Are scient
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NRDC Helps the Disappearing Honeybee
Science & Tech  (tags: environment, bees, habitat, humans, investigation, research, science )

Daphna
- 71 days ago - planetgreen.discovery.com
The Natural Resources Defense Council has been at the forefront of the battle to save the country's honeybees for several years. I spoke with Melissa Waage, campaign manager for NRDC, about some of their efforts to raise public awareness about colony coll
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Honeybee Mobs Overpower Hornets
Science & Tech  (tags: bees, hornets, study, research, science )

Michelle
- 143 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
Honeybee hordes use two weapons - heat and carbon dioxide - to kill their natural enemies, giant hornets.
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Group Sounds Alarm on European Bee Industry
Science & Tech  (tags: Bees, pesticides, disease, pollination, food crops, crisis )

Suri
- 207 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
- 216 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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Bumblebee Colonies Which Are Fast Learners Are Also Better Able To Fight Off Infection
Science & Tech  (tags: bees, fight, infections, interesting )

Ingrid
- 388 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Bumblebee colonies which are fast learners are also better able to fight off infection, according to scientists from Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Leicester.
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Bees Go 'Off-Color' When They Are Sickly
Science & Tech  (tags: science, research, investigation, bees )

Ingrid
- 495 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Bumble-bees go 'off colour' and can't remember which flowers have the most nectar when they are feeling under the weather, a new study from the University of Leicester reveals.
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Ozone Might Help Make Bee Hives Cleaner And Safer
Science & Tech  (tags: ozone, bees, hives, pesticide, microbes )

Jan
- 549 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
- 581 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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Creating Homes That Please America's Wild Bees
Science & Tech  (tags: agriculture, bees, home )

Ingrid
- 599 days ago - sciencedaily.com
Just like people who are looking for a perfect place to live, some female bees search for the ideal place to build their nests.
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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.
- 620 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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Compound Safely Quells Bee-Killing Chalkbrood
Science & Tech  (tags: scientists, bees, pollination )

Ingrid
- 625 days ago - sciencedaily.com
From rabbits to horses to cows, many animals love alfalfa. America's premier pollinator of that crop, the alfalfa leafcutting bee (Megachile rotundata), is vulnerable to a deadly fungal disease called chalkbrood.
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Native Bees Could Fill Pollinator Hole Left By Honeybees
Science & Tech  (tags: research, science, bees, pollination )

Sharon
- 626 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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