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Keeping Honeybees A beehive in the garden ensures a good seed crop and fresh honey for the table |
Smithsonian June 2007 David Zax |
Interview: May Berenbaum An interview with an expert on the colony collapse disorder talks about the role of cellphones, pesticides and alien abductions in the honeybee crisis. |
BusinessWeek March 24, 2011 Alan Bjerga |
U.S. Queen Bees Work Overtime to Save Hives Although beekeepers are pumping up the number of honey bees, Colony Collapse Disorder still threatens $15 billion in agriculture. |
Science News June 22, 2002 Janet Raloff |
The Buzz Over Coffee New research finds evidence that Africanized "killer" honeybees in the Americas have been performing a hitherto unrecognized service for people around the world. They've helped keep down the cost of growing high-quality coffee. |
Wired May 22, 2007 Greta Lorge |
Can a Tiny Microphone Save the Bees -- and the Food Supply? An entomologist at the University of Montana, has decided to wire this hive because he believes it's in the early stages of "colony collapse disorder," a syndrome that has caused the deaths of billions of bees nationwide -- and baffled scientists. |
Chemistry World April 22, 2015 Michael Gross |
Bees 'prefer' neonicotinoid-laced nectar Bees may prefer to feed on nectar contaminated with neonicotinoids, so their exposure could be higher than previously assumed. |
IEEE Spectrum May 2011 Paul Wallich |
Beehackers Beekeeping engineers bring cheap widgets to a 19th-century craft. |
Chemistry World April 5, 2013 Rebecca Trager |
Controversial pesticides down but not out The US Environmental Protection Agency is being sued by environmental groups and beekeepers over the use of a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids. The European Food Safety Agency also issued a report highlighting several risks posed to bees. |
Chemistry World April 30, 2007 Michael Gross |
Deadly Beetles Intercept Bee's Warnings The small hive beetle invades colonies of the European honeybee (Apis mellifera) but not of the African strain. Researchers in the US have now found that the bee's very own chemical alarm signal plays an important role in the beetle's success. |
Science News July 28, 2007 |
Science Safari: Bee All Here's a site to learn more about the important role honeybees play in plant health and agriculture. |
National Gardening Charlie Nardozzi |
Summer's Bad Guys A guide to some of the most common garden pests and their controls... |
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The Facts of Life About Melons and Squash What you need to know about crosses and hybrids. |
National Gardening Holly H. Shimizu |
Brilliant Bee Balms These showy native plants make a healthful tea, too |
National Gardening Alice Yarborough |
Gardening for Butterflies The plants they like and the species you may see on them... |
Chemistry World May 27, 2015 |
US targets neonicotinoid use in pollinator plan The White House has unveiled a strategy to promote the health of honey bees and other pollinators that aims to revisit neonicotinoid insecticide use. |
National Gardening Bill Thompson III |
Planning A Hummingbird Garden Simple ways to create a garden that's irresistible to these tiny birds... |
Chemistry World April 11, 2013 Mark Peplow |
Pesticide bee buzz needs more evidence There are opportunistic infestations that gain a foothold in hives where bees are already weakened by some other factor. Could that factor be pesticides? A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that neonicotinoid pesticides could indeed be responsible for colony collapse disorder. |
This Old House June 15, 2015 Karen Ziga |
3 Ways to Attract Pollinators to Your Garden Celebrate National Pollinator Week by creating a pollinator-friendly environment in your backyard. |
Chemistry World August 28, 2015 Tim Wogan |
Worker bees 'chemically castrated' through diet The role of the phytochemical p-coumaric acid in determining whether female honey bee larvae develop into queens or workers has been discovered unexpectedly by researchers in the US. |
National Gardening Eve Pranis |
Flower/Pollinator Investigations As students actively explore blooms indoors and out, consider how to help them grasp the concept that every aspect of flowers is vital to their mission: to spread pollen and produce seeds. |
Reason January 2008 Ronald Bailey |
Buzz Kill Researchers have found an acute paralysis virus present in 96% of collapsed honeybee hives, dispelling theories of biotech crops and cell phones causing the insect's demise. |
Chemistry World October 26, 2006 Bea Perks |
Honeybee Genome Unveiled The humble honeybee is giving up its genetic secrets, now that scientists have unveiled the insect's entire genome sequence. Chemists have a lot to learn from the honeybee genome. |
Chemistry World August 6, 2015 Ida Emilie Steinmark |
Bee immune system discovery points way to pollinator 'vaccines' Bees use an egg yolk protein to prime their offspring's immune system against different pathogens, Finnish researchers have discovered. |
National Gardening Skip Richter |
Enlist Help from the Good Guys of the Garden When it comes to the garden, not all bugs are bad. Here are four simple ways to attract beneficial insects to your garden and to make sure they stay around. |
Fast Company September 2009 Anne C. Lee |
A Taste of the Honey Business The bees of America have been working hard all summer: To make a pound of honey, they have to fly the equivalent of eight roundtrips between New York and Paris. Now it's time to enjoy the fructose of their labor. Have a taste of the facts and figures on honey. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams |
The Buzz on Bee Viruses Technology designed for human viruses is helping solve a bee riddle. |
Chemistry World April 21, 2011 Hayley Birch |
Insecticide studies provide clues to bees' disappearance A rapid analytical technique could facilitate more extensive studies of the reasons for the worldwide decline in bee populations. Studies using the method suggest insecticides used to coat crop seeds may be partly to blame. |
Chemistry World October 15, 2015 Anthony King |
Wildflowers serve as reservoir for controversial pesticides The pollen and nectar of wildflowers can contain higher levels of neonicotinoid insecticides than nearby crops, according to a new study. |
IDB America July 2005 Roger Hamilton |
Sweet profits Honey production provides income and a reason to preserve natural areas in Guatemala. |
Science News October 6, 2007 |
Timeline: From the October 2, 1937, issue Volcanic eruptions predicted... Bees' language discovered as a strange sort of dance... Infantile paralysis wave has reached its peak... |
Popular Mechanics September 25, 2009 Joe P. Hasler |
5 Highly Productive, Low-Stress Animals You Can Raise at Home Animals you can love and profit from: Icelandic Sheep... Laying Hens... Honey Bees... Nigerian Dwarf Goats... River Buffalo... |
Chemistry World May 7, 2013 Rebecca Trager |
US moves in different direction on pesticides As the EU introduces a two-year moratorium on the use of neonicotinoid insecticides over concerns that they are decimating bee populations, the US government appears headed in a different direction. |
Chemistry World October 23, 2012 Simon Hadlington |
Multiple insecticides are bad news for bumblebees Colonies of bees were exposed to two classes of insecticide and observed for several weeks. Long-term exposure to the two insecticides had a significant impact on the colonies. |
Chemistry World September 13, 2007 Victoria Gill |
Bees Tell Their Life Story with Perfumes Researchers have now shown how male orchid bees are able to tell their own tale by collecting and storing fragrances. |
Chemistry World August 21, 2013 Rebecca Trager |
EPA pushes pesticide labels to protect bees The US Environmental Protection Agency has developed new pesticide labels that prohibit the use of some neonicotinoid products where bees are present in an effort to protect the health of pollinators. |
The Motley Fool April 17, 2007 Seth Jayson |
Quick Take: The Butterfly Effect A dramatic and mysterious collapse in honey bee colonies could effect more than just the higher-end, natural food stores. If things get bad enough, we could see a trickle-down effect everywhere from Hershey to Wal-Mart. |
Inc. August 2008 Shivani Vora |
Passions: Scott Mitic, CEO of TrustedID Scott Mitic helps protect consumers from identity theft by monitoring their credit reports. Outside the office, he relishes tending to his backyard hive and making his own jars of honey. |
Science News April 27, 2002 Janet Raloff |
Honey of a Threat An all-natural, organic food, honey has a benign -- if not wholesome -- image. However, honey has the potential to carry some very disturbing plant poisons to the dinner table, an international trio of scientists reports... |
Chemistry World July 2006 John Bonner |
Insect Detectives Chemists and biologists are harnessing the powerful sense of smell that insects possess to devise applications from detecting rotten tomatoes to controlling one of the deadliest diseases in Africa. |
Chemistry World August 28, 2008 Victoria Gill |
Floral scents trick pollinators Flowers make a finely tuned mix of scents that attract birds and insects but also repel them in time to stop all their nectar being taken by a single pollinator, according to a new study by researchers in Germany. |
BusinessWeek July 29, 2010 John Lauerman |
Innovator: Rob Wood The Harvard engineering professor is creating mechanical insects that could be used in agriculture, medicine - and even espionage. |
Smithsonian September 2007 Blumberg et al. |
Wild Things: Life as We Know It Research on Icebergs, ice age wolves and honeybee queens. |
Chemistry World April 30, 2013 Laura Howes |
Europe to ban controversial pesticides Three neonicotinoid insecticides are to be banned from use on crops that attract bees for two years in the EU. This follows a vote by member states yesterday. |
Popular Mechanics July 2009 Erin McCarthy |
Robots That Dress Like Animals for Science To better understand animal behavior, scientists are dressing up data-gathering robots in animal garb. By fitting in with their wild, unsuspecting friends, robot bees, turkeys and lizards are recording intimate details |
Chemistry World May 31, 2013 Ned Stafford |
Another pesticide linked to honeybee deaths Global chemicals giant BASF is disputing a new assessment from the European Food Safety Authority warning that the insecticide fipronil poses a major risk to honeybees when used as a seed treatment for maize. |
National Gardening |
Corn Confidential You watered it, fed it, and nursed your corn crop through the summer. How can you prevent growing corn with more cob than kernel? |
Chemistry World October 9, 2013 Rebecca Brodie |
The private lives of plants Noritada Kaji and colleagues at Nagoya University have created a microfluidic assay that can more accurately investigate pollen tube growth. |
Chemistry World February 5, 2013 Ned Stafford |
EU proposes neonicotinoid pesticide ban The European Commission has proposed suspending the use of three neonicotinoid pesticides on any agricultural crops that attract bees, populations of which have steadily declined in recent decades. |
AskMen.com June 11, 2003 Matthew Simpson |
Top 10: Deadly Animals The fact is, the world is crawling with beasts, big and small, which can kill humans quickly and efficiently without provocation. This list will concentrate on those. |