Pesticides Registered by EPA Alter Honey Bee Microbiome
Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog,
(Beyond Pesticides, August 12, 2016) A new study by a team of scientists at Virginia Tech finds that commonly used in-hive…
Common Food Fungicides Linked to Autism: Revealing Study Points to Risks
Organic Authority,
Gene expression after exposure to a relatively new class of fungicides shows a strong similarity to how autism and other…
Farmers have been using honey bees for almost 9,000 years
ZME Science,
Bees play a critical role in maintaining natural plant communities and ensuring production of seeds in most flowering plants.
Why are bees hurting? A lineup of suspects
Grist,
In my last piece I made the case that the rumors of honeybee extinction have been greatly exaggerated, but honeybees are still…
Bee declines driven by interaction of multiple stressors
Journalist's Resource,
2015 research review in Science examining a broad range of factors that negatively impact bee health, including declining…
Bee declines driven by interaction of multiple stressors
Journalist's Resource,
2015 research review in Science examining a broad range of factors that negatively impact bee health, including declining plant…
The Most Addictive Ingredient in Cigarettes Could Make for Healthier Bees
Motherboard RSS Feed,
Bumblebees that drink nectar containing nicotineor as I like to imagine it, the bumblebee equivalent of vapingare better at…
Did Scientists Just Solve the Bee Collapse Mystery?
Environment | Mother Jones,
It's a hard-knock life, scouring the landscape for pollen to sustain a beehive. Alight upon the wrong field, and you might…
15 Plants to Help Save Bees
EcoWatch: Cutting Edge Environmental News Service,
We need (and love) ’em. Bees. With spring upon us, it’s a perfect time to think about what we can plant to help save the bees.
USDA Invests $3 Million Into Program To Boost Honeybee Numbers
ThinkProgress » Climate Progress,
CREDIT: AP Photo/Pat…
More bad news for bees, now plant viruses are after them
AoB Blog,
Colony Collapse Disorder is bad news, even if you hate honey as much as I do. Disappear honey bees doesn’t just mean less honey…
Bee wipeout likely caused by pesticides and fungicides
ZME Science,
Photo credit: econews.com.au Over the past six years, and estimated 10 million beehives have been wiped out as a result of the s…
Decline In Bee Population: A Rising Concern
TechieTonics,
It is well known fact that the most important work that a bee performs is to pollinate. Almost 80% of our flowering crops are…
Reasons for bees deaths complex.
Celsias Expert Articles,
This article is from Jaymi Heimbuch, originally from Treehugger. So what is with all the dying bees? Scientists have been…
Can Urban Bees Provide Insight Into Colony Collapse Disorder?
Txchnologist,
by Ysabel…
Impact of pesticides on environment and human health – Is it “worse than you thought”?
Ricehoppers,
by K.L. Heong, International Rice Research Institute, Los Baños…
Weekend Links
Fight Entropy,
1) Time lapse photos of the north pole this July2) Fungicides further implicated in Colony Collapse Disorder (via Yaniv…
Interactions: July High Five
Altmetric.com,
What kinds of research did people talk about in July? Interestingly, most of the popular articles that I selected for the July…
Scientists work to solve mystery of dying bees
Science Matters | Blogs | David Suzuki Foundation,
Bees are endlessly intriguing, and incredibly useful to us — and not just for honey and wax. If bees disappeared, it would be…
Untreue Bienen und tödliche Gefahren Bienensterben hat viele Ursachen und weitreichende Folgen
RSS,
Fleißige Bienchen fliegen von Blüte zu Blüte, sammeln Nektar und bestäuben dabei Pflanzen. Ein stetiger Rückgang der…
The Mystery of Bee Colony Collapse
Environment | Mother Jones,
What's tipping honeybee populations into huge annual die-offs? For years, a growing body of evidence has pointed to a group of…
Lethal doses and Bees
Southern Genes,
Peter K.
GCR News Summary July 2013
Global Catastrophic Risk Institute,
Artificially-colored MERS virus image courtesy of CSIRO. ConceptNet, an artificial intelligence program developed by a team led…
Scientists discover another cause of bee deaths, and it's really bad news
Latest Items from TreeHugger,
Scientists have delved deeper into the mystery of dying bees, and discovered that the cause of the problem is more pervasive…
Loose Feathers #402
A DC Birding Blog,
Common Tern and chicks / USFWS PhotoBirds and birdingThe US Fish and Wildlife Service plans to kill 3,603 Barred Owls at four…
Closing in on the bee killers
The Stochastic Scientist,
By now you’ve no doubt heard that honey bees (Apis mellifera) are dying off in great numbers all over the world. This isn’t…
The Cause(s) of Honey Bee Death
From The Lab Bench,
“Consensus is building that a complex set of stressors and pathogens is associated with CCD [Colony Collapse Disorder], and…
Not every dead bee is colony collapse disorder
MYRMECOS,
The media is buzzing this morning with the nth edition of What’s-Been-Killing-The-Bees: …the mysterious mass die-off of honey…