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Honeybees pollinate more than 100 crops, from apples to zucchini.  The world has watched honeybees dying in the millions since 2006. Though there have been news reports concerning this crisis for the last 12 years, a majority of people still ...

When you think of attracting a super-pollinating machine to your backyard garden, you probably don’t instantly think of the mason bee. Most people think of the honeybee instead. But there is good reason for making your property attractive to the ...

From the top floor of my city’s downtown library, through the thick-paned glass windows, I can see the high-rise office buildings and apartments of the surrounding cityscape, and I can also see a small apiary — three rooftop beehives — ...

Honeybees don’t just pollinate our orchards (apples, pears, peaches, plums, almonds, grapefruits, oranges, cherries), but they also pollinate berries (blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries) as well as onions, pumpkins, cucumbers, cantaloupe, watermelons and a host of other food plants. Falling bee ...

A landmark Harvard study says that neonicotinoids – the dominant ingredient found in many popular insecticides which treats much of the corn in the US — are to blame for colony collapse disorder in the honeybee population. The Environmental Protection ...

Honeybees in Australia are about to be outfitted with tiny sensors so their movements can be monitored. Researchers are hoping the technique, known as “swarm sensing,” will shed light onto the colony collapse disorder problem and help discover how the ...

Honeybees may get some much-needed help courtesy of a new protection plan under way in a western state – the first such colony collapse disorder program in the nation. North Dakota, which has been among the leaders in honey production ...

Lowe’s, Home Depot and other retailers could be contributing to the death of bees by selling plants laced with pesticides to the public. That’s the charge being made by the Friends of the Earth, a major environmental group, and the ...

As homesteaders and peppers, we tend to think that we wrote the book on preparedness and self-sufficiency. The simple truth of the matter is that the real book on preparedness was written by the humblest of God’s creatures, the insect. ...

Pesticide warning labels to help save the bees finally have been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency. While the EPA has taken a small step in the right direction, it may not be enough to save the drastically shrinking honeybee ...