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Honeybees: A holistic perspective on a superorganism
Honeybees: A holistic perspective on a superorganism It is a great privilege to call myself a beekeeper. Having bees in my life, constantly reminds me to notice the sheer wonder of the world around me and often leaves me with a visceral sense of my place within this world. Honeybees have seen a dramatic rise […]
Study warns US farmland is now 48 TIMES more TOXIC to insects: Are neonicotinoids to blame for the impending “insect apocalypse?”
Study warns US farmland is now 48 TIMES more TOXIC to insects: Are neonicotinoids to blame for the impending “insect apocalypse?” (Natural News) Researchers have determined that the nation’s farmland is now 48 times more toxic to insects than it was just 25 years ago, and much of this rise in toxicity is being blamed […]
US Beekeepers File Suit Against Trump EPA Charging ‘Illegal’ Approval of Insecticide Linked to Mass Die-Off
US Beekeepers File Suit Against Trump EPA Charging ‘Illegal’ Approval of Insecticide Linked to Mass Die-Off “Honeybees and other pollinators are dying in droves because of insecticides like sulfoxaflor, yet the Trump administration removes restriction just to please the chemical industry.” “It is inappropriate for EPA to solely rely on industry studies to justify bringing sulfoxaflor […]
US Beekeepers Lost 40% Of Honeybee Colonies Last Year, UMD-Led Survey Finds
US Beekeepers Lost 40% Of Honeybee Colonies Last Year, UMD-Led Survey Finds Recent budget cuts by the Trump Administration slashed funding for the US Department of Agriculture’s annual Honey Bee Colonies report that has recently detailed a collapse in the bee population across the nation. Now researchers will be observing a new study, one that […]
This Small Change Increased Bee Populations by 45%
This Small Change Increased Bee Populations by 45% For quite some time, scientists across the world have been warning the public about the decline of bees and other pollinators. We’ve known for years that bee populations all across North America and Europe are collapsing at an alarming rate. Our very existence relies on the tiny buzzing creatures, […]
Honeybees: A holistic perspective on a superorganism
Honeybees: A holistic perspective on a superorganism It is a great privilege to call myself a beekeeper. Having bees in my life, constantly reminds me to notice the sheer wonder of the world around me and often leaves me with a visceral sense of my place within this world. Honeybees have seen a dramatic rise […]
Malaise Traps
MALAISE TRAPS Remembrance Day for Lost Species, held on the 30th November each year, is an occasion to honour and mourn the countless thousands of species driven to extinction by human activity. To mark this year’s theme – Lost & Disappearing Pollinators – author and beekeeper Helen Jukes writes of this year’s devastating news of insect decline, of the wonder of honeybee hives, and […]
Beyond Honeybees: Pollinator-Friendly Farming for the Future
Beyond Honeybees: Pollinator-Friendly Farming for the Future Imagine a world without strawberries, apples, chocolate, coffee, squash, or almonds. More than three-quarters of the fruits, vegetables, and nuts we eat rely on pollinators like honeybees. The phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has raised concerns about honeybees over the last decade, and although CCD is no longer the primary worry, honeybee […]
Honeybees Face Global Threat: If They Die, So Do We
Honeybees Face Global Threat: If They Die, So Do We “There is one masterpiece, the hexagonal cell, that touches perfection. No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the center of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some one from another world to descend and ask of the […]
Honeybee Collapse is the Result of Their Enslavement in Industrial Monocultures
Honeybee Collapse is the Result of TheirEnslavement in Industrial Monocultures As you may have noticed, last week the media was once again filled with yet another round of collapsing honeybee stories, this time the coverage being about the loss of 42.1 percent of hives in the US over the past year, the second largest die-off […]
Suicide By Pesticide
Suicide By Pesticide What the honey bee die-off means for humanity As you are aware, honey bees have been suffering from something called Colony Collapse Disorder. In practice, what this means is that the bees simply vanish from their hives, leaving behind their most precious worldly possessions: honey and larvae. What causes these mysterious vanishing acts […]
