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Half of Bee Colonies Lost Last Year

LindaOH @LindaOHio (222417) • United States 23 Jun 23

48% of bee colonies were lost in the last year ending April 1, 2023. Parasites, pesticides, starvation and climate change were the main reasons for the losses. A 21% loss over winter is acceptable; but it was much higher this...

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busy bees

Kelli M @spiderdust (14756) • San Jose, California 9 Apr 18

While moving something next to my orange tree, I heard a lot of buzzing over my head. The honeybees have returned! They were happily humming away, collecting pollen and nectar from the buffet of orange blossoms and paying no...

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Cheerios Wildflower Seeds

Fishmomma @Fishmomma (11658) • United States 15 Mar 17

Do you remember seeing the bee on cereal packages? Buzz the Bee needs our help. Honeybees are in trouble and we need them to pollinate crops. Visit the General Mills Website to get a packet of 500 free wildflower seeds to plant...

wildflower seeds

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Honeybees and our life

somupriti @somupriti (353) 26 Nov 12

In some articles I have come to know that the day when all honeybees will die out from our planet, within the next 5 year there will no human being to withness the future! Are you concerned about this? I was scared and could not...

honeybees will dieout

witness the future

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Co-conspirators in the case of the missing honeybees

gewcew23 @gewcew23 (8007) • United States 8 Oct 10

Scientist from both the US Army and the University of Montana have discovered what is causing the collapsing honeybee colonies, a combination of a fungus and a virus. These two grow inside the bees digestive tract which may even...

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Honeybees Mysteriously Disappearing in The United States of America

Nic @academic2 (7000) • Uganda 23 May 10

In my’ country, honeybees are still taken rather too much for granted. No body really sits down to gauge the unlikely scenario of a world without bees because there is this complacent feeling that bees are going no where and they...

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How do I get rid of a swarm of honeybees?

kaysue4 @kaysue4 (951) • United States 19 May 08

Ok, with all of the news of the honey bees not doing so well, I don't want to KILL these HONEY BEES. I know the queen bee has to be in the center of all of these bees, so it is a small group. Being that it is very cold out the...

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would you like to own a hive of bees?

barehugs @barehugs (8973) • Canada 17 May 07

Its a lovely spring morning and the bees have started to gather the nectar from dandilion blossoms. I'm examining the brood chamber of this hive to determine if the bees have a Good laying Queen. If they don't I'll put some bees...

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Honey bees

lucy02 @lucy02 (5015) • United States 3 May 07

Over the last month I have been hearing about the extreme loss of our honey bee population and even more in the last couple of days. I had never thought about this but our life depends largely on these honeybees. Without their...

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Did you know that honeybees are being trained to sniff bombs?

caribe @caribe (2465) • United States 1 Dec 06

What do you think? Are bees too dangerous to be used indoors at airport security checks-points to detect bombs?

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