With the summer season coming up, worries about aggressive bees and the risks of stings increase, especially given some species’ tendency to swarm when their colony, honey stores, or larvae are threatened. Despite any fears people have of honeybees—fueled by personal experiences, observational learning, or old horror movies—the truth is the most common species in…
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The threat to honeybees presented by pesticides—specifically those with neonicotinoids—have become so well-known beyond the scientific community that even companies like Scotts Miracle-Gro have started the process of discontinuing their use permanently by certain dates and substituting those harmful products with safer alternatives. Given the rate of loss being around 45 percent of colonies per…
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While mostly well known for their importance as pollinators, honeybees are in fact some of the more intelligent insects and even species one can find and are especially strong navigators in spite of their relatively simple brain structures, simpler than even rats or mice with their hundreds times as many nerve cells. So strong is…
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At this point, it is well known that global honeybee populations are in decline, with one survey showing a 44 percent loss of colonies in the US alone. Whether due to parasites, neonicotinoid pesticides, or malnutrition, these losses directly impact people as well, given we rely on honeybees as pollinators, and as a result many…
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As the Manuka honey industry continues to grow in New Zealand and elsewhere, a consistent surplus of beekeepers is becoming more common, and with that many honeybee operations in one finite space, problems are bound to come up. In some cases, those problems have the potential to be dangerous. And that is why truck drivers,…
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Baklava Cookie Cups–Made with Manuka Honey Need an idea for how to use your Manuka honey stores? One way to involves making the sweetest of cookies without adding any sugar—all you need instead is your Manuka honey! These baklava cookie cups take the best flavors of the Greek dessert and make it the size of a…
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It’s not uncommon to hear about specific programs gaining emphasis in public education because of their more practical use in certain areas, such as Spanish or French acquiring programs due to the more likely chance that American students will need those languages over others like Italian or Portuguese, given the US sits sandwiched between two countries…
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In response to the global decline of honeybee populations and those of other pollinators, General Mills, the company that gives us Cheerios and its many kinds, has decided to become part of the solution and do what it can to not just salvage these hurting populations but to nurture them and get them back to…
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