Articles related to "Honeybees"



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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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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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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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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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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Nature versus nurture in honeybees
A new informatics system studies the impact of environment on hereditary behaviour in social organisms.
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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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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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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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Killer Bees
Do killer bees actually exist or are they just the product of a horror movie?
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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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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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Orchard Mason Bees
Solitary bees have garnered more attention as pollinators in recent years. Indeed, as honeybee populations decline, solitary wild bees are being cultivated.
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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 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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Silk from Bees and Ants
Australian researchers are investigating silk from bees, ants and other insects in their search for novel light and strong fibres.
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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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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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Global Bee Deaths Threaten Foods
Bees are essential for pollination in nature, but there has been a drastic decline in their numbers around the world. This threatens many of our foods.
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Sensory Therapy
Research on improving quality of life through sensory therapy. Conducted by the Dionysian Foundation for Neurological Disorders.
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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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Wild Native Bees Can Pollinate Your Garden
There is an impressive diversity of native bees across North America. While they don't look like your typical honey bees, they do a yeoman's job of pollinating crops.
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Black Wedding
Learn the truth about life in Australia before the European invasion. You'll discover it's not quite the "Terra Nullius" proclaimed by invaders.
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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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American State Insects
There is no American National Insect, although The Monarch Butterfly has been considered by Congress.
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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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The Fibonacci Sequence in Gifted Classes
Gifted students use the Fibonacci Sequence in simple equations to discover unexpected connections and explore the relationship between numbers and the natural world.
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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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A Short History of Beekeeping
Beekeeping is one of the oldest practices in the world, and by examining its changes over the years we can start to understand how important it is to today's world.
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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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Beekeeping with Ed Weiss
Honey has been called the nectar of the gods--and it's one familiar flavoring. Discover its sweet secrets by learning how to set up a beehive from a master beekeeper.
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Bif Naked - The Promise (review)
Bif Naked gives new meaning to the terms "willpower" and "inner strength", having recorded the strongest album of her career while battling breast cancer.
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All About Beeswax
Beeswax is natures gift to us when used correctly it can be a wonderful addition to the candle family.
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Nature's Service. You Don't Get Somethin for Nothin

Colony Collapse Disorder
This is a worldwide problem, particularly bad in America, where honeybee colonies are dying off at an alarming rate.
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Human Effects
Human behaviour affects the planet in many ways, some intentional and others accidental.
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The Asian Giant Hornet
Wasps and hornets are pests. However a wasp two inches long is downright dangerous. This article will describe this amazing insect along with its habitat.
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Chickens In The City
Raise your own livestock within the city limits
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HELPING ENDANGERED SPECIES Posh Zoos: Part Two
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