Bee News

Friday, April 14, 2006

Bee News. April 14

Greenmount to hear of campaign to save bees
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
By Eddie McIlwaine. A fight to save the bees of the world from extinction will be launched at Greenmount Agriculture College in Antrim today. ...

Bitter blow to Tangail honeyproducers
The Daily Star - Bangladesh
Tangail: Unbelievable though, about 50 tonnes of honey are lying unsold with commercial apiculturists only in Bhuapur upazila in Tangail district. ...


Here’s the buzz behind mason bees
Albany Democrat Herald - Albany,OR,USA
Did you know that mason bees (Osmia ligarie) can fly circles around honeybees when it comes to pollinating? ... What’s so special about mason bees? ...


Around Broadneck: Students certified as beekeepers
Annapolis Capital - Annapolis,MD,USA
... Mr. Luna and Arlington Echo beekeeper Suzanne Kilby suited ... of Crownsville to take apart three bee colonies at ... also practiced how to extract honey, assemble new ...


Carolinas brace for killer beeinvasion
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... he'll go out with his equipment -- a bee suit, smoke ... Besides producing beeswax and honey for sale, bees are critical ... I'm not going to be a beekeeper," he said. ...


Why BeesFly With Landing Gear Down
FOX News - USA
By Sara Goudarzi. Unlike landing gears that are retracted during a jet's flight, some bees leave them down as they buzz along. Orchid ...

Honey: More goodness than sweetness
Vanguard - Apapa,Lagos,Nigeria
By Sola Ogundipe. EVERYONE loves honey, that sweet and viscous fluid produced by bees and other insects from the nectar of flowers. ...

Honeyoutput to dip by 25 pc in Punjab due to bee disease
NewKerala.com - Ernakulam,Kerala,India
Ludhiana: The rapidly spreading "varrora mite" disease in bees in Punjab, one of the largest producers of honey in the country, is likely to bring down its ...

Prisons see future in honey
The Nation, Malawi - Chichiri,Blantyre,Malawi
... He discloses that last year, Mwanza Prison harvested close to 800 kg of honey from its 2.5 hectare apiary. The average selling price ...

Office under sting siege
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
The block office was closed as today was a government holiday. On Saturday, the bees went on the rampage after their hive was disturbed by a horde of monkeys. ...

Florida Pest Management Association Announces Africanized Honey...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2006--Encounters with Africanized Honey Bees (AHB) are on the rise in Florida. Easily ...

Gardener pitches benefits of bees
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA
... And how can the United States improve its promotion of bee-keeping and local honey use ... with my German language skills should put any German beekeeper at ease ...

Saturday, April 08, 2006

April 8 Bee News

Apiarists heading to Beehive for demonstration
National Business Review - New Zealand
Beekeepers, stung by the prospect of a government decision that would allow Australian bee products -- including honey -- allowed into the country, are to ...
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Kansas Bracing for First Killer Bees
Washington Post - United States
... the Department of Agriculture, hangs a bee trap in ... Tim Tucker, a Niotaze beekeeper who lives just two ... also president of the Kansas Honey Producers Association ...

HoneyBees could pose problems
American Farm - Easton,MD,USA
By SEAN CLOUGHERTY. DOVER, Del. — The biggest topic buzzing around the annual meeting of the Delaware Beekeepers Association was Africanized Honey Bees (AHB ...

Sweet success
Batemans Bay Post Star - Batemans Bay,New South Wales,Australia
Wendy and Pat Roberts' Australian Rainforest Honey is now competing with the big boys, up against such established brands as Capilano and Beechworth. ...

Uganda: Ssembabule Women in HoneyBusiness
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... are so plentiful and persistent that Ann Mary Nsubuga and her fellow beekeepers have to wait for nightfall before they can process the honey they collect ...

Healing honey: The sweet evidence revealed
EurekAlert (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
(Thousand Oaks, CA, USA – April 6,2006) Substantial evidence demonstrates that honey, one of the oldest healing remedies known to medicine, produces ...

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'Killer'
beesdiscovered in Clovis
Clovis News Journal - Clovis,NM,USA
A Portales pest control company official said a sample of bees found in Clovis “in the middle of town” has tested positive as being a strain of Africanized ...

Spring is swarming season according to local beekeeper
Bossier Press-Tribune - LA, USA
... which according to one professional beekeeper, can also ... most interesting phenomenon is the honey bee swarm, which ... contain 1,500 to 30,000 bees including workers ...

Sunday, April 02, 2006

April 2 Bee News

Hey, honey
Inside Bay Area - Oakland,CA,USA
... But for backyard beekeepers in the Bay Area, the stings are outweighed by the rewards of gallons of honey, wax for candlemaking, pollination for fruit trees ..

Arkansas-side police, firefighters battle three swarms of bees
Texarkana Gazette - Texarkana,TX,USA
Texarkana, Ark., police and firefighters spent part of Friday morning spraying down a swarm of bees that had gathered near a local house. ...

The Benefits of Bees
MyMotherLode.com - Sonora,CA,USA
Mention bees in a conversation and you're likely to hear horror stories of painful bee stings and life threatening bee allergies. ...

Kansas bracing for first killer bees
USA Today - USA
... the Department of Agriculture hangs a bee trap in a ... Tim Tucker, a Niotaze beekeeper who lives just two ... also president of the Kansas Honey Producers Association ...

Swarm no match for ‘BeeMan’
Statesboro Herald - Statesboro,GA,USA
... has a honey farm near Register – B&G Honey Farm, to ... aka services to the community, is bee removal. ... a good soaking, Colson donned a beekeeper's outfit, took a ...

Beekeepers are taking protest to the Beehive
Gisborne Herald, New Zealand - Mar 31, 2006
by Sarah Clarke. APIARISTS and farmers have bees in their bonnets and are planning a mass sting of members of the biggest beehive in the country. ...