April 17

Swarm of beesin May is worth a load of hay
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
May and June are busy months for honeybees. "A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon." In one day, the queen bee can lay more than 1000 fertile eggs ...
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Focus on the birds and bees...
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press - Norfolk,England,UK
Gardeners are being encouraged to keep an eye on the birds and the bees this summer after the forging of a partnership between two wildlife organisations. ...
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Leading Wound Care Experts to Discuss Benefits of Manuka Honeyin ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Dr. Cooper’s research at Cardiff includes wound infection and the role of micro-organisms in wound healing, the antibacterial properties of honey and the ...
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Tainted honey'came from external source'
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
Devastated by weekend revelations that its honey had been contaminated with the antibiotic chloramphenicol, which could cause a rare blood disease, ...
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April 11

There is no shortage of articles about colony collapse disorder. All can be boiled down to, "Nobody knows why." When there are some solid leads the links will be here.


Judges are sweet on a taste of honey
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
That's about all I knew about honey until Taster's Choice recently sampled 10 brands. The fluid produced by honey bees from the nectar of flowers comes in ...
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April 10

HoneyGaining Popularity For Medicinal Properties
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
(CBS) NEW YORK Already popular overseas, a type of honey with antibiotic properties is catching on in the United States. Some say Manuka honey, ...
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Growers want bees distanced
Tulare Advance Register - Tulare,CA,USA
But some beekeepers say moving hives will not solve the problem, as bees can't be fenced in or be restricted to no-fly zones as they search for nectar.
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Bees keep her busy as a, well, a bee
UC Berkeley - Berkeley,CA,USA
BERKELEY – Public curiosity about bees kept UC Berkeley graduate student Alex Harmon-Threatt on her toes at an annual wildflower festival at the ...
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Loss of beesa genuine threat
Pueblo Chieftain - Pueblo,CO,USA
Entomology professor Gene Robinson, director of the Bee Research Facility at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, uses honeybees to understand ...
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In praise of ... bees
Guardian Unlimited - UK
So many farmers rely on bees to pollinate their crops that $15bn of the US agricultural economy alone depends on them. Humans need bees more than we trouble ...
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March 4

If you only read one article about Colony Collapse Disorder, this is a good choice.

March 1

Here's the same old story, but from a European vantage.

Beekeepers see how many bees survived the winter
Scenta.co.uk - London,England,UK
An undiagnosed honeybee ailment spread across the northern hemisphere has left British beekeepers worrying about how many of their bees survived the winter. ...
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February 28

Honey, root may help staph infection
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
If this approach hasn't helped, you might try using medicinal honey instead. Researchers at the University of Waikato in New Zealand have found that honey's ...
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How a spoonful of honey can make toast of the superbugs
Daily Mail - UK
And after watching them at work, doctors have combined sterile honey from Australian bees with seaweed to clean wounds infected after heart surgery. ...
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Here's just one story about Colony Collapse Disorder. There are hundreds:

'Dwindle disease' threatens to put sting on Michigan's honeybee hives
WZZM - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
The signature symptom is an absence of mature worker bees. They up and leave, abandoning their honey, their brood and their queen. ...
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February 28

Here is a story about CCD from NPR. (Contains link to audio file.) Good piece but they could have researched a little better. They call the frames "Honey racks". Still, it's great that NPR carried the story.

February 25

This is pretty much the only news around. The bees are dying. We don't know how many or why yet. When there's more news I'll update. Stay tuned.
Tom