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Most folks probably think Texans would have a simple way to handle a major insect infestation: Kill them varmints.
Scientists investigating a mysterious ailment that has killed many of the nation's honeybees are concentrating on pesticides and microorganisms as possible causes of the disorder, and some beekeepers are refusing to place their hives near chemically treated fields.
A thick cloud of bees was sucked into the engine of a passenger plane en route to Portugal, forcing the airline to abandon the trip and grounding passengers for 11 hours, a company executive said Saturday.
A swarm of honeybees temporarily disrupted a charity fundraising event, but no one reported being stung.
A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across the country, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination.
The micro-copter uses a simple optical trick to fly gracefully (Image: Hubert Raguet)
A bumblebee hive's thermostat is controlled by a strict division of labour, a new study has revealed.
A man who tried to keep bees off his property accidentally set fire to his house instead, causing at least $500 damage.
Areas of interest are picked out by the virtual honeybees (Image: Gustavo Olague)
A teenage driver crashed into a hollow tree and stirred up tens of thousands of angry honey bees, creating a swarm that sent her and nine others to the hospital.
Kansas officials are bracing for the first swarms of so-called "killer bees" to cross into the state as early as this year, the Kansas Department of Agriculture said Thursday.
In his new animated film, Jerry Seinfeld plays Barry B. Benson, a wisecracking, moony-eyed, charmingly petulant New York honeybee who doesn't want to spend his days as a worker bee stuck on the honeymaking assembly line.
I was a little stunned to discover today that they are being bought by Clorox for $925 million in cash. It seems to me that Clorox is buying them in part to improve their own image and bolster their reputation as an environmentally friendly company.
More than a quarter of the country's 2.4 million bee colonies have been lost — tens of billions of bees, according to an estimate from the Apiary Inspectors of America, a national group that tracks beekeeping.
...An angry swarm of 100,000 bees buzzed their way into several Valley yards Tuesday, stinging four children, their baby sitter and a beekeeper...
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Elephants flee the sound of angry bees, with the vast majority turning to run within seconds of hearing the sound of buzzing, scientists said. The findings are surprising because elephant skin was thought to be so thick that bee stings do not make any impression.
The buzz of angry bees frightens African elephants into fleeing, according to a study in Kenya that provides evidence this type of sound could help keep the massive animals from trampling farms and threatening people.
Lucy King, a zoologist at Oxford University, who led the study, said on Monday nearly all the elephants exposed to recordings of angry buzzing bees ran away immediately, in contrast to pachyderms who heard a recording of white noise.
Even novice beekeepers, he said, are of tremendous importance. The more local bees there are, the stronger the gene pool will be. Start with bees from a local beekeeper, because having bees adapted to the climate is important.
Bulgarian bees are very different over here as I found out yesterday as the grape harvest was gathered form the garden.
An Idaho carnival worker who slammed his SUV into a telephone pole said he crashed because his friends were having sex in the back seat, throwing the vehicle off-balance.
For the first time, researchers have discovered that when Cyprian honeybees mob and kill their arch enemy, the Oriental hornet, the cause of death is asphyxiation. They reported their findings in the September 18, 2007, issue of Current Biology.
He admits that even though the game utilizes his companies Unreal Engine 3, that's not why he's picking BioShock as game of the year. It's a quick and (real) dirty blog entry, but a blog entry by a heavy-hitter in the industry which does lead to a unique perspective on the game.
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A virus appears to be a prime suspect — but not likely to be the only culprit — in the mass die-offs of honeybees reported last fall and winter.
The mysterious disappearance of droves of honeybees in the US may be down to an imported virus, suggests a new study.
Archaeologists digging in northern Israel have discovered evidence of a 3,000-year-old beekeeping industry, including remnants of ancient honeycombs, beeswax and what they believe are the oldest intact beehives ever found.
One bee disease, called Israeli acute paralysis virus, seems strongly associated with the beekeeping operations that experienced big losses.
Archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Archaeology made a sweet discovery this summer. They uncovered the first ancient apiary (beehive colony) ever found in the Middle East.
It's summer, and the yellow jackets are back in force. Should we be alarmed? Well, it helps to know a little about these creatures.
The mysterious disappearance of millions of bees is fueling fears of an agricultural disaster, writes Fortune's David Stipp.
What happens if all the honeybees disappear or what happens when bees stop making honey? The history of bees runs parallel to that of mankind. Since the dawn of humanity, man has prized honey. Today, this nectar has become rare, because the bees are not well.
TomDispatch introduces an essay by Chip Ward.
Bees, who are so important to humans, not just for the honey we use, but the vital role they play in our food chain by pollenating food crops. Yet there is a growing crisis of bee numbers disappearing, without much publicity at all.
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