A third of UK bee colonies have been lost over the last two years and there have been many explanations given for this. There is strong evidence that neonicotinoids – a class of pesticide first used in agriculture in the mid 1990s at exactly the time when mass bee disappearances started occurring – are involved in the [...]
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Why Neonicotinoids Are Bad for Bees
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping on May 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Fly Parasite Turns Honeybees into “Zombies”
Posted in Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping on January 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
American scientists have discovered that a fly parasite can turn honey bees into confused zombies before killing them, in an advance that could offer new clues to why bee colonies are collapsing. So far, the parasite has only been detected in honey bees in California and South Dakota, American researchers reported in the open access [...]
The Bee by Edwin Curran
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beetwixt & Beetween on December 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The singing bee comes like a little ship, And docks beside a rose for cargoed wine, Its gossamer paddles spinning in the air A little plane upon the flower vine. It anchors in the bell upon its quest, And lulls its motor in the crimson bower, Then with its honey glides on to the west, [...]
Bees Don’t See Red!
Posted in Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beetwixt & Beetween on June 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What colors creatures see has long interested scientists, and aside from us, more is known about what colors bees see than any other living thing. Like us, bees are trichromatic. Whereas we base our color combinations on red, blue, and green, bees base all their colors on UV, blue , and green. Just as color [...]
Global Bee Emergency!
Posted in Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping on January 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
CLICK HERE or on the photo below to sign the petition to save bees and our crops and send this link to everyone you know! Quietly, globally, billions of bees are dying, threatening our crops and food. But a global ban of one group of pesticides could save bees from extinction. Four European countries have begun banning [...]
Bees Solve Travelling Salesman Problem
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beetwixt & Beetween on December 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I just love stories that show that the world of bees is unexplainable, beyond individual intelligence and that even to the most brainiest of scientists can’t explain how they do it! Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London and Royal Holloway, University of London have discovered that bees learn to fly the shortest possible route [...]
Heater Bees
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A great programme from the BBC on Heater Bees broadcast this evening. Unfortunately, you can’t watch the whole programme any more, but there are some clips here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rqgh4#clips And this amazing photograph:
Leadership and Management in the Hive
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on January 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In the work that I do, I am often asked what is the difference between leaders and managers. So here is an attempt to describe the difference: Leaders lead people. In order to lead people they need vision of a possible future and a sense of purpose. And they need to convince others that this [...]
Sacred Geometry and the Honey Bee
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on January 20, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In his book “Sacred Geometry – Philosophy and Practice”, Robert Lawlor has an interesting picture on the connection between sacred geometry and the honey bee. Lawlor draws attention to the ubiquitous relationship between One and the Square Root of Two (or 1:1.41421356…) and shows this in the diagram below: Excerpt from page 31 “Sacred Geometry [...]
The Wisdom of Bees and Voting Systems
Posted in Bee Law, Bee Lore, Bee Present, Bee-ology, Beekeeping, Beetwixt & Beetween on January 7, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Honeybees have been “voting” in single winner “elections” for 20-50 million years. They’ve held far more elections than humans, for a lot longer, and to decide something that mattered to each bee voter a lot more than most election winners matter to most human voters: where should we locate our new nest? Each spring, about [...]
