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

February 19

Beekeepers seek to block Australian honey and bee product imports
Radio New Zealand - Wellington,New Zealand
Beekeepers are challenging Biosecurity New Zealand's decision to allow imports of honey and bee products from Australia, in a hearing starting in the High ...

February 18

Editors note:
It seems there's not much bee news these days. Not much, that is, except for the fact that a lot of bees are dying for reasons that we don't yet understand. Those of us in the north are crossing our fingers that spring inspection won't reveal silent hives. Many beeks in the south are simply wiped out. The food supply is already threatened.

So if you don't see much diversity here these days, that's why. Everyone is focused on this one huge problem.
Tom

Disease Hits Bees, and Vital Crops Suffer
(Audio)
NPR - USA
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Migrant bees key to California's almond orchards
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
That's important. If a beekeeper delivers a batch of weak bees, an almond grower may refuse to pay. Almond growers say bee rental now makes up about 20 ...
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Oregon Ridge offering a honey of a course
North County News.com - Towson,MD,USA
The Phoenix woman signed up for a beekeeping course at Oregon Ridge Nature Center and was immediately hooked on the idea of harvesting honey. ...

February 13

Under the Weather Bees
FOX News - USA
Most people probably view bees as a nuisance and a danger, something to swat or avoid in the spring and summer. Who wants to get stung? ...
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Getting a buzz from honey
Northampton Chronicle & Echo - Northampton,Northamptonshire,UK
Beekeeper David Odell is hoping that the natural aphrodisiac qualities of honey will boost his sales this Valentine's Day. ...

February 11

Spraying keeps beekeeper on the move
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
Harvey's Honey has bee colonies in Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie and Indian River counties. Its summer headquarters is in Monroeville, NJ ...

Honeybee industry stung by lethal mystery disease
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
On Wednesday morning, Sebring-based beekeeper Steven Bentley, 45, found thousands of dead bees in a grove where he has kept hives since the 1980s. ...
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February 10

Honey used by doctors to treat cancer patients
TopCancerNews.com - Dallas,TX,USA
Manchester doctors at the Christie Hospital in Didsbury are importing manuka honey from New Zealand to treat mouth and throat cancer patients after surgery ...

Mead: A honey of a beverage
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
"Honey wine" also gets wrapped into that whole romanticized knights-and-chivalry thing, and in Norse mythology, fallen warriors drank mead in Valhalla. ...

Nigeria: Gov Battles Poverty With Honey Factory
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
He said the state-owned N75 million Sunshine Honey factory, which produced 1200 litres of honey daily, had started operation. ...

Sniffer bees in war on terror
This is Local London - UK
BEES could be used as the next weapon to fight the war on terror, thanks to a small Hertfordshire research company. Inscentinel Ltd in Harpenden, ...

Farmers scramble for dwindling numbers of bees
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
The number of commercial honey bee colonies is less than half of what it was 25 years ago, said Maryann Frazier, a bee expert at Penn State's College of ...
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All-Russian honey fair in Moscow
Russia-InfoCenter - Moscow,Russia
400 beekeepers-commodity producers from 54 regions of Russia will participate in the XVII all-Russian honey fair. Specialists of the Head veterinary ...

USDA Map of Africanized Honey Bee Spread Updated
Agricultural Research - Beltsville,MD,USA
The map of Africanized honey bees' spread in the United States has been updated. It is now posted on the Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) web site at ..

EU-funded promotion to boost honey consumption in Czech Republic
Prague Daily Monitor - Prague,Czech Republic
A promotional campaign will be launched in the Czech Republic to help increase the consumption of honey, and will be funded by the EU (50 percent), ...

February 7

Mystery killer silencing honeybees
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
The country already had about 3500 species of pollinating bees before Europeans brought honeybees in the 1600s. But because honeybees produce honey and can ...

Rare New Zealand honey leads to sweet importing business
Pottstown Mercury - Pottstown,PA,USA
WILLISTOWN -- The buzz about manuka honey has to do with its health benefits, not its flavorful properties in a glazed carrots recipe. ...

Farmers scramble for dwindling numbers of bees to pollinate crops
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
Harsh weather across the country, pesticides and mites are blamed for killing off billions of bees needed to pollinate just about every crop throughout the ...

February 5

Honey Bee Die-off Alarms Beekeepers
Discovery Channel - USA
5, 2007 — Something is wiping out honey bees across North America and a team of researchers is rushing to find out what it is. ...

For beekeepers, cold is welcome
The Tribune-Democrat - Johnstown,PA,USA
At such temperatures, the normally winter-dormant honey bees get in the mood to stir around, eating much of the honey in the hive and potentially creating ...

Lots of buzz, less honey from Cape bees
The Herald Eastern Cape - Port Elizabeth,Eastern Cape,South Africa
These bees produce only a quarter of the honey that would be expected of such insects in other parts of the country. During his conservation work in and ...

February 4

Honey council abuzz with federal grant
Chilliwack Progress - Chilliwack,British Columbia,Canada
“Canada’s new government is committed to assisting the [Canadian Honey Council] by strengthening its viability in the global marketplace,” said federal ag. ...

Honey Bees May Be Latest Casualty of Freeze
ABC30.com - Fresno,CA,USA
Though there are artificial pollinators on the market, growers and beekeepers say honey bees are the way to go. Bettancourt says, "We live in the world of ...
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February 3

Better Body: Sweet Health Benefits Of Honey
CBS 13 - Sacramento,CA,USA
Honey's reputation as a folk remedy is over! Nancy Stewart of Sacramento Beekeeping Supplies says scientific research now proves that honey is nature's ...

Sue Bee and “The Apprentice” Focus on the American Honey Bee

Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Sue Bee Honey is the most recognizable honey brand in the world, and is known for its responsible environmental practices surrounding honey production and ...
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Dry winter could mean trouble for Santa Cruz honey
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
Early blooms have failed to appear, leading to a shortage of natural food for honey bees and scrawnier bee colonies, beekeepers said. ...

Argentina last year exported less honey but got higher revenue
MercoPress - Montevideo,Uruguay
Argentina, which is constantly challenging China as the world`s largest honey exporter, last year exported 99000 tonnes of honey for 146 million, ..

Honey wine: Nectar of the gods
Abbotsford News - Abbotsford,British Columbia,Canada
Mead, better known as honey wine, was purportedly the favourite drink of Norse deities and heroes. And the ambrosia enjoyed by Greek gods was thought to be ...

February 2

King of queens
Pembroke Mariner - Marshfield,MA,USA
But with beekeeping, the sting comes with the honey. In his 35 years as a beekeeper, John Phillips of Hanson said he is no stranger to bee stings. ...

Bees a challenge, but a crucial one for farmers
Mercury-Register - Oroville,CA,USA
Food for bees has been scarce. This time of year you'd expect to see fields covered with yellow mustard flowers and wild radish, a food source for the ...

Detecting Explosives With Honey Bees
Chief Engineer - Crestwood,IL,USA
Using Pavlovian training techniques common to bee research, they trained bees to give a positive detection response, via the proboscis extension reflex, ...

February 1

Honey Bee Die-Off Alarms Beekeepers, Researchers
PA Farm News - Quarryville,PA,USA
UNIVERSITY PARK -- An alarming die-off of honey bees has beekeepers fighting for commercial survival and crop growers wondering whether bees will be ...

Scientists find out how bees fly
BBC News - UK
Scientists say finding out how bees stay in the air - by having rigid wings up front and flexible wings at the rear - is a huge breakthrough. ...
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