Alan Yuhas – US beekeepers fear for livelihoods as anti-Zika toxin kills 2.5m...
Huddled around their hives, beekeepers around the south-eastern US fear a new threat to their livelihood: a fine mist beaded with neurotoxin, sprayed from the sky by officials at war with mosquitos...
View ArticleJoseph Alton – The Coming Bee-pocalypse? Collateral Damage of Mosquito Spraying
Everyone should support the humble bee. It’s thought that every third bite of food we take is there because of pollination by bees. Honey, when raw and unprocessed, may even be used as a wound covering...
View ArticleJoelle Renstrom – And their eyes glazed over
I have a rule about cellphones in class: if one disrupts us by ringing, vibrating or sounding an alarm, the owner has to sing a song or bust some dance moves in front of the class. At first, this...
View ArticleMARGARET ROACH – 5 Ways To Make Your Garden More Bee-Friendly
Bees are struggling for survival, so I try to do my part to help. First order of business: Provide water and never use chemicals. This year, I’ll also bolster plantings to add early- and late-season...
View ArticleBees: The Easy Off-Grid Money Maker
The subject of homesteading often focuses on various methods of gardening, different types of livestock, or even the multiple ways to generate electricity. But one area that is often overlooked is...
View ArticleDeath and Extinction of the Bees
Since 2006 beekeepers have been noticing their honeybee populations have been dying off at increasingly rapid rates. Subsequently researchers have been scrambling to come up with an accurate...
View ArticleAgustina Larrea –‘Experts call Latin America ‘the world’s scrapyard for...
Although agrochemical products, pesticides and genetically modified crops are today part of everyday life for those who live in the countryside, they are relatively new in Argentina. Very few people,...
View ArticleAndrea Germanos – EPA Acknowledges Neonics’ Harm to Bees, Then ‘Bows to...
The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday published two bee-related announcements, but with both, say environmental groups, the agency has failed the pollinators. One was its “Policy to Mitigate...
View ArticleLife Without Bees: The Effects on Food
Due to climate change, the increased use of pesticides and a range of other causal factors, bee populations have decreased steadily over the past years. This could result in a huge impact on our food...
View ArticleConnect The Dots – Listen to Sainath Suryanarayanan, a scientist at the...
Listen to Sainath Suryanarayanan, a scientist at the University of Wisconsin and co-author with Daniel Kleinman of Vanishing Bees: Science, Politics and Honeybee Health talking about the multifactoral...
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