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Pollination
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Call off the bee-pocalypse: U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high
How the free market saved us from beemageddon.
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Bees Naturally Vaccinate Their Babies, Scientists Find
Humans like to brag about their brilliant advent of vaccinations to prevent diseases, but bees just roll their eyes and shrug. After all, they’ve been doing it naturally for much longer.
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Call off the bee-pocalypse: U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high
How the free market saved us from beemageddon.
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Call off the bee-pocalypse: U.S. honeybee colonies hit a 20-year high
You've heard the news about honeybees. "Beepocalypse," they've called it. Beemageddon. America's honeybees are dying, putting honey production and $15 billion worth of pollinated food crops in jeopardy. The situation has become so dire that earlier this year the White House put forth the first National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and Other Pollinators, a 64-page policy framework for saving the nation's bees, butterflies and other pollinating animals.
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Beekeepers try to keep bees — and livelihoods — from going extinct
Amid a die-off, some beekeepers go to extraordinary, creative lengths to keep their bees thriving. By Leah Sottile.
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How Bees Revealed a Pot Farm Beneath the Maraschino Cherries
Red-hued bees led authorities to discover New York City’s biggest-ever marijuana farm in the basement of a cherry factory—triggering the owner’s suicide.
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Some honeybee colonies adapt in wake of deadly mites
A new genetics study of wild honeybees offers clues to how a population has adapted to a mite that has devastated bee colonies worldwide. The findings may aid beekeepers and bee breeders to prevent future honeybee declines. By Krishna Ramanujan.
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Modular BEEcosystem observation hive brings honeybees inside your home
In a bid to get more people reconnected with the nature of their food, Living Interiors' new modular observation beehive helps to highlight the critical importance of pollinators to our food system. As a backyard farmer, I've been really jazzed to see so many new solutions crop up in the homegrown food sector, especially those that focus on some of the unsung heroes of the food chain, the pollinators.
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What Is Killing America’s Bees and What Does It Mean for Us?
Pollinators are vanishing, and a silent spring could become a horrifying reality. So why won’t the EPA do more? By Alex Morris.
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California's Killer Bees Are Spreading North
Bad news for apiphobes: Killer bees are on the move in the United States, but that may be helpful to the besieged European bee.
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Bees get addicted to caffeine, do a little dance
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Aussie invention worth millions
A HUMBLE Australian beekeeper, who used crowd-funding to revolutionise the way the world extracts honey from bee hives, made a cool $16 million.
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How beekeeping jobs are giving ex-cons in Chicago a second chance
Sweet Beginnings, a social enterprise business, is reducing recidivism rates on Chicago's West Side by creating beekeeping jobs for people released from prison.
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101 East - The Buzz Around Niue
Can Niue, one of the world's smallest countries, save a global bee population under threat?
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Why Do Some Bees Produce Hallucinogenic Honey?
For a short period each spring, bees in certain parts of the world add a little extra ingredient to their honey, giving it a trippy twist. By gathering nectar from the rhododendrons that come into bloom at this time of year, they infuse their sugary produce with certain toxins that cause a range of interesting effects when ingested by humans.
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New research reignites concerns that pesticides are harming bees
Bee colonies exposed to the pesticide seemed less active in pollinating apple trees. By Chelsea Harvey.
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Are pesticides to blame for the massive bee die-off?
Commercial beekeepers across America have been struggling with great numbers of bee deaths over the past few years. What’s behind their failing health? Some research points to a class of pesticide that’s coated onto a large proportion of corn and soybeans grown in the U.S. Allison Aubrey of NPR reports.
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Elephant Beehive Fence
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Bees, Nature's 3D Printers
You will think differently about bees when you see what they can do if given the proper mold to work with!
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