Ants restrained from undesired reproduction by peers

Normally worker ants are not supposed to mate. Their job is to build a hive and care for the hive queen’s offspring instead. But a new study showed that when worker ants actually break the taboo and reproduce,...

Colony Collapse Disorder Mystery Solved?

Researchers at the Pennsylvania State University, Diana Cox-Foster and her colleagues points the finger at Israeli acute paralysis virus. The lurgy in question was, the researchers suggest, was imported...

New York's Renegade Beekeepers

In a city that thrives on buzz, hidden corners of New York City contain plenty of the real thing. As Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) continues to devastate up to 35% of beehives, these under-the-radar honey...

Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out the Bees?

"Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurs when a hive's inhabitants suddenly disappear, leaving only queens, eggs and a few immature workers, like so many apian Mary Celestes. The vanished bees are never found, but thought to die singly far from home. The parasites, wildlife and...

Honeybee deaths sting Ontario apiaries

"A wet fall, a long winter and an influx of invasive species are the usual suspects investigators have rounded up in search for clues to a malady crippling honeybee populations in southern Ontario and other parts...

BEE Afraid, Be Very Afraid! :: Oblate Spheroid

"Here is an item that is really troubling, in that, we here on Earth do not know what may get to our human population first - famine (lack of food) or disease (animal flu crossover). The bee populations...

Mysterious Disease Is Killing Our Honeybees

"Scientists are reporting a dramatic loss of honeybee colonies. Some beekeepers say they're losing 20 percent of their bees, others say half, some say 80 percent. They open the hives to find the bees dead, or...

Ten Things I hate about Democrats

"There really aren'€™t any moderate Democrats anymore. In the last decade, I'€™ve observed the radical leftward move of the Democrats, with an upsurge in over-the-top rhetoric that is akin to rhetorical arson. Here are ten things I hate about Democrats:"  "1) The...

Home where man was fatally stung had quarter-million bees

"Exterminators have removed a hive containing an estimated quarter-million Africanized bees from a home near Bisbee where a man was fatally stung on Aug. 20." Read the original story at KVOA News 4, Tucson,...

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