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Don’t Plant Those “Bee-Friendly” Wildflowers Cheerios Is Giving Away
Bee populations are in decline, and Cheerios wants to help. So far, so good. But they are sending free packets of wildflower seeds to people all over the country—and some of the flowers included are invasive species that, in some areas, you should probably not plant.
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Europe poised for total ban on bee-harming pesticides
The world’s most widely used insecticides would be banned from all fields across Europe under draft regulations from the European commission, seen by the Guardian. The documents are the first indication that the powerful commission wants a complete ban and cite “high acute risks to bees”. A ban could be in place this year if the proposals are approved by a majority of EU member states.
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Bumblebees: Pesticide 'Reduces Queen Egg Development'
Using the insecticide thiamethoxam in spring could reduce bee numbers later in the year, a study finds.
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Calif. man accused of stealing nearly $1M worth of bees
A northern California man has been arrested on suspicion of stealing bees and beehives worth nearly $1 million, CBS San Francisco reports. According to the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, Pavel Tveretinov, 51, was taken into custody on April 28 at an orchard in Fresno. At the time of his arrest, Tveretinov was tending to more than 100 stolen beehives, officials said. Further investigation led authorities to find additional hives at two other locations in Fresno County.
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Pesticides damage survival of bee colonies, landmark study shows
The world’s largest ever field trial demonstrates widely used insecticides harm both honeybees and wild bees, increasing calls for a ban. By Damian Carrington.
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Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees
Scientists say the industry-funded work confirms that neonicotinoids are harmful, but manufacturers question its conclusions.
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There’s Now Very Strong Evidence We Really Are Killing Our Bees
Scientists have conducted field studies in Europe and Canada to look at the effect of neonicotinoid pesticides on bee populations. The same properties that make the neonicotinoids effective pesticides make them deadly to bees.
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Controversial pesticides can decimate honey bees, large study finds
Europe's largest field trial of controversial insecticides called neonicotinoids has delivered a split verdict on the danger they pose to bees. The £2.8 million, 2-year-long study of 33 sites in the United Kingdom, Hungary, and Germany, described this week in Science, provides the first real-world demonstration that agricultural use of these common pesticides can hurt both domesticated...
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Study finds parallels between unresponsive honey bees, autism in humans
Honey bees that consistently fail to respond to obvious social cues share something fundamental with autistic humans, researchers report in a new study. Genes most closely associated with autism spectrum disorders in humans are regulated differently in unresponsive honey bees than in their more responsive nest mates, the study found.
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Bees Are Bouncing Back From Colony Collapse Disorder
The number of U.S. honeybees, a critical component to agricultural production, rose in 2017 from a year earlier, and deaths of the insects attributed to a mysterious malady that’s affected hives in North America and Europe declined, according a U.S. Department of Agriculture honeybee health survey released Tuesday.
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Bees are first insects shown to understand the concept of zero
Bees seem to understand the idea of zero – the first invertebrate shown to do so. When the insects were encouraged to fly towards a platform carrying fewer shapes than another one, they apparently recognised “no shapes” as a smaller value than “some shapes”.
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Rustler steals 40,000 bees in Britain's biggest hive heist in years
An experienced beekeeper is suspected of stealing 40,000 bees from Anglesey in one of Britain’s biggest bee rustling cases in years. Only someone with a bee suit and veil could have pulled off the heist on Paul Williams’s hive in Rhydwyn “without getting stung to smithereens”, police said. The miserably rainy summer could have ruined the thief’s own honey production and driven them to carry out the theft, one expert has suggested.
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A Molecule in Bees' Royal Jelly Promotes Wound Healing
Honey and other bee products have a life-giving, almost mystical quality according to alternative medicine practitioners and "back to nature" enthusiasts. In truth, they don't. Bee colonies aren't tiny pharmaceutical companies. Sure, honey tastes good, but from a chemistry standpoint, honey isn't all that different from high-fructose corn syrup.
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Popular Neonicotinoid Pesticides Keep Bumblebees From Laying Eggs
A new study is adding to evidence that a popular class of pesticides can harm wild bees, like bumblebees.
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The Etruscans Were Expert Beekeepers, Ancient Honeycombs Suggest
The charred remains of 2,500-year-old honeycombs, as well as other beekeeping artifacts, have been discovered in an Etruscan workshop in northern Italy.
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Massachusetts man dies after being swarmed by bees
A Massachusetts man attacked by a swarm of bees while doing yard work has died.
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Bee-harming pesticides in 75 percent of honey worldwide: study
Traces of pesticides that act as nerve agents on bees have been found in 75 percent of honey worldwide, raising concern about the survival of these crucial crop pollinators, researchers said Thursday. Human health is not likely at risk from the concentrations detected in a global sampling of 198 types of honey, which were below what the European Union authorizes for human consumption, said the report in the journal Science.
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The UK just banned pesticides harmful to bees
A total ban on bee-harming pesticides being used across Europe will be supported by the UK, the Environment Secretary has said. In a reversal of the Government's previous position on neonicotinoid pesticides, Michael Gove said new evidence indicated the risk to bees and other insects was “greater than previously understood”.
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Much of the world’s honey now contains bee-harming pesticides
Neonicotinoid pesticides are turning up in honey on every continent with honeybees. The first global honey survey testing for these controversial nicotine-derived pesticides shows just how widely honeybees are exposed to the chemicals, which have been shown to affect the health of bees and other insects. Three out of four honey samples tested contained measurable levels of at least one of five common neonicotinoids, researchers report in the Oct. 6 Science.
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Bee research may redefine understanding of intelligence
The brain of a honeybee is tiny — the size of a pin head — and contains less than a million neurons, compared to the 85 billion in our own brains. Yet... By Rowan Hooper.
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