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Secret Beauty Tips from the Honeybee
Honey can give you that special look that women love to have. Here are five beauty secrets that use Honey as a main ingredient and that will give your skin a real treat.
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Honeybee Crisis and Biodiversity
Flowering plants rely heavily on bees for their survival via pollination, and many bee species are endangered. An overview of the current honeybee colony crisis.
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Honeybees
Honeybees are threatened in a number of ways. They are essential pollinators of our crops and we should be concerned about their problems
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Honeybees and Monoculture
Our reliance on the Western Honeybee to pollinate many food crops inevitably exposes the bees to predators, diseases and our own attempts to control other insects.
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Honeybees and Varroa Mites
The varroa mite of honeybees sweeps through hives and kills bees. The parasite has spread from continent to continent.
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Nosema spp. – Honeybee Parasites
Nosema apis has long been known as an intestinal parasite of European honeybees. Nosema ceranae seems to be new and may be causing colony collapse disorder.
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Army Looking For New Use For Honeybees
The U.S. Army is looking at honeybees as a way to help protect soldiers by detecting unexploded landmines.
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Common Diseases of Honeybees - Part 1
There are many conditions which can affect your hives. By knowing what to look for, you can help save your bees from these conditions. Complete with photos, this two part article gives you the basics.
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Common Diseases of Honeybees - Part 2
A major disease of honeybees is the Tracheal Mite. Part 2 of this feature describes this condition and shows a picture of what the mites look like inside of the trachea of a honeybee.
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Nature versus nurture in honeybees
A new informatics system studies the impact of environment on hereditary behaviour in social organisms.
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Ah, the Asters of it All
The arrival of the wild asters of autumn help us hope that they and the honeybees who love them will return if we keep spraying pesticides as is being done in New York now.
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Bee Depletion Affects Ice Cream
An explanation as to why honeybees are vital agricultural tools, what Haagan-Dazs is doing to find a reason behind the problem, and some facts about the honeybee.
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Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
Gorgeous, fragrant flowers, edible pods, food and habitat for monarch butterfly and other insects, a source of material for string: the virtues of milkweed go on and on.
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Folk Remedies for Bee Stings
Spring is a time when your bees become active and the risk of a bee sting increases. Throughout history, there have been many treatments for a sting. Find out some of the more bizarre ones as well as what is currently recommended by the medical profession.
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Helping Bees Be Bees
There are many ways that people can help bees to have their necessities of life. Careful planning can help the bees in your area survive and thrive.
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Weed Walk at 55 mph
Observances of a new commuter, as spring unfolds along the route to work.
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Why Are My Bees Lethargic?
What causes bees to be lethargic. Find out the answers. They may surprise you.
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Helping Honeybees in Your Garden
There are some simple things that gardeners can do to help provide for honeybees no matter how small their space.
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Killer Bees
Do killer bees actually exist or are they just the product of a horror movie?
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Asian Hornet in France
Vespa velutina was accidentally introduced into South-West France in 2005 and entomologists are carefully watching its progress.
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Backyard Nature Conservation
The situation for animals outside of protected areas is becoming increasingly precarious as development and pesticides take their toll.
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Bees as Desert Plant Pollinators
There are 20,000 species of bees in the world and 3,500 in North America. Many species, besides honeybees, are efficient pollinators of desert plants.
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Bees in General
Bees are truly social insects of immense value to humans as pollinators. Many species are severely threatened.
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Honey Money
The Justice Department has discovered that shipments of honey have been used as a cover for illegal money laundering activities. How could this impact the business, if it is widespread?
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Stingless Bees
Most stingless bees are fully 'wild', but some species are kept by beekeepers in tropical and semi-tropical regions, particularly of Central America.
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What is Apidae?
There are bees on every continent in the world except Antarctica.
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Muscles of expressions
Muscles move parts of body or whole animal body and some of them help in communication and expression. Read more about such muscles..
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An Herb Butterfly And Bee Garden
A simple how to guide to create a butterfly garden. Environmentally friendly herb gardening to attract bees and butterflies. Insect pollinators are in serious decline.
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Bee Friendly Gardening
As the honey bee population declines, there are simple steps you can take to help the bees, including buying local honey, growing flowers and more.
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How Desert Plants Get Pollinated
Pollination is important to plants, and desert plants are no exception . However, some unique methods of pollination have developed in the desert.
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Wealthy and Poor at Once
This article introduces an ongoing series that will examine the many lesser-known plants and animals that could benefit humanity ... if we work to preserve them.
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What Crickets Do
An uninvited visitor at a little country church announced his presence cheerfully but loudly, to the annoyance of the congregation. But he was just doin' what crickets do!
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