Category Archives: Culture, or lack thereof
Talking about bee science
Ted talks and so do bee scientists. Maybe you know Ted. TED, actually with capital letters, stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and the TED Talks are a series of conferences with great (entertaining) speakers. The talks are filmed and then … Continue reading
Invasive bee hives
Dutch bee hives in Manhattan? Of course. Four hundred years and counting. New York was known as New Amsterdam by its first settlers, the Dutch from Holland who arrived on lower Manhattan Island in 1614. That’s even before the Pilgrims … Continue reading
Posted in Bee Biology, Culture, or lack thereof, Ecology, History
Tagged invasive species, Manhattan bees
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Getting away with murder
A bee-kill decision in Florida. According to The Ledger, beekeepers Barry Hart and Randall Foti lost $390,000 worth of bees and honey production when one of Florida’s largest citrus producers sprayed pesticides. (The loss does not seem exaggerated. For example, … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Culture, or lack thereof, People, Pesticides, Save the Bees
Tagged Ben Hill Griffin, citrus, Florida, Florida's Natural, imidacloprid, insecticide, lawsuits
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Chinook Honey Festival
Chinook Honey Farm’s Honey Harvest Festival was today, near Okotoks, just south of Calgary. As always, Art and Cherie entertained their hundreds of guests with lots of games, demonstrations, and programs. The farm has a great meadery with a wide … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Friends, Humour
Tagged bee beards, Chinook Honey Farm, honey festival, humiliated donkey
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CBC discovers CCD
CBC Evening News Blames Neonics for Colony Collapse… In a touching – and sad – news program from CBC’s National, we see the story of an Ontario beekeeper who is losing his bees. View the complete video on YouTube. CBC … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Pesticides, Save the Bees
Tagged Bayer, CBC, colony collapse disorder, neonicotinoids
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Time to say goodbye – or maybe not
Bees have made the cover of Time. Missing bees, that is. The cover announces “A World without Bees” and promises to disclose “the price we’ll pay” if we can’t stop the bee losses. I’m not sure exactly what triggered this … Continue reading
Movies
Another movie about honey bee deaths? Why not? It appears the public isn’t tired of hearing about dead bees yet. The latest installment is “More than Honey” which was filmed on location inside a beehive studio somewhere in Switzerland. Last … Continue reading
80 Years in the Bees
What would it be like to keep bees for 80 years? You could ask 92-year-old George Birks, who started back in the 1920s. The price of a loaf of bread was 9 cents; a pound of sugar was 7 cents; … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, History, People
Tagged Adamson, England, George Birks
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Honey Massage
Here’s a new twist on the old fashioned Honey Massage. This one actually uses old-fashioned honey. The sticky massage seems to be increasingly popular in Europe, judging by the YouTube videos from Romania, Czech Republic, and especially videos such as … Continue reading
Posted in Apitherapy, Culture, or lack thereof, Strange, Odd Stuff
Tagged Germany, honey massage, Romania
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Honey is Honey
Here’s a honey of a lawsuit. Target Corp has been targeted in a legal action by a Ms. Cardona, apparently of somewhere in California, who discovered from her on-line research that the $3 bottle of honey she purchased at a … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Honey
Tagged California, labeling, lawsuits, organic honey
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