January 29

Honey of an honor for UC Davis bee expert
Daily Democrat - Woodland,CA,USA
Honey bee expert Eric Mussen, Extension Apiculturist with the Department of Entomology, UC Davis, has received a honey of a national honor for his bee ...

Honey bee die-off alarms keepers, growers and researchers
Penn State Live - PA,USA
An alarming die-off of honey bees has beekeepers fighting for commercial survival and crop growers wondering whether bees will be available to pollinate ...

Blazes sparks trouble for honey industry
ABC Online - Australia
The eucalypts that provide the nectar for honey bees flower sporadically to start with. Now, depending on the heat of the fire, it will take the gums seven ...

January 28

What's the buzz? Farmers worried about bees
Daily Democrat - Woodland,CA,USA
"My beekeeper, who grew up in the business, can remember working with his dad and if they had a 2 to 5 percent bee loss, that was considered horrible. ...

Food makes me feel like dancing
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette - Champaign/Urbana,IL,USA
A chemical that works something like cocaine might prompt foraging honey bees to feel rewarded by "dancing" to communicate information about a found food ...

January 27

State wants to import bees to help crops (11:53 am)
Stockton Record - Stockton,CA,USA
A plan that would import bumblebees to help pollinate California crops won’t fly with environmentalists, who fear the bees could bring exotic diseases that ...

Jan. 29: Put An Army Of Bees To Work For Pain Relief At ...
Eworldwire (press release) - Succasunna,NJ,USA
26, 2007 --- A painful tennis elbow, carpel tunnel blamed on the computer, a twisted ankle even an anxiety attack all have something in common - bees. ...

Bees Decision A Disgrace

Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
“The eventual spread of varroa would decimate the population of feral pollinating bees, severely hurting the South Island's annual $55 million vegetable ...
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Restart. Jan. 26 '07

Taking another run at this. From here on in I'm going to ignore most of the "Killer Bee!" stories. New science about AHB will have a place, but media frenzy will be ignored. Ok?

The healing power of honey: From burns to weak bones, raw honey ...
Newstarget.com - Taichung,Taiwan
(NewsTarget) Raw honey – which has not been pasteurized or filtered, and ideally taken directly from the hive – is a treasure chest of nutritional value and ...