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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