NYC beekeepers swarm City Hall to protest ban - Obama Buzz Off!

" NEW YORK - There's a secret buzzing around the rooftops and backyard gardens of New York. Despite city regulations prohibiting it, hundreds of New Yorkers have kept beehives on rooftops and backyard gardens...

Farmers should plant bee friendly flowers

Farmers around the world should plant bee friendly flowers.  The declining population of honey bees could benefit from bee-friendly flower patches.  Honey bees have been declining rapidly, and by...

Forget the minor stock market problems; where's the bee? - from GTBP.org

I was sitting in my apple orchard with my neighbor Asher this week.  Asher is a retired banker, a Philadelphia Eagles fan, and my beer drinking pal.   He was a bit nervous and depressed and it has nothing to do with the liquidity crunch or the upcoming football...

$27 million dollar project to save birds, bees, and bats

From my website:"This week, the Global Environment Facility, has launched a new $27 million dollar project with the goal of saving animals that are needed to pollinate the many crops of the world. The United...

Deserted Beehives and their Starving Young Stun Scientists

"The $15-billion-a-year honeybee industry is about more than honey: The nimble insects pollinate 90% to 100% of at least 19 kinds of fruits, vegetables and nuts nationwide, from almonds and apples to onions and broccoli. "Basically, everything fun and nutritious on your...

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...

Are Mobile Phones Killing the Bees?

Following up earlier posts, here is a new development in the honeybee die-off mystery. Scientists are positing that honeybees are refusing to return to hives when a mobile phone is nearby, leading to the mass abandonments that characterize Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD),...

Massive Honey Bee Die-Off Threatens US Crops

"Probing Question: What's killing the honey bees? March 1, 2007, By Lisa Duchene, Research Penn State Far away from the snowdrifts outside our windows, spring is unfolding in California as the almond trees begin...

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