Category Archives: Save the Bees
Eating the Vomit of Slaves?
This headline showed up in my beekeeping news feed this morning. It’s a disgrace to the cause of fighting against the abuse of animals and it shows total stupidity of the subject on the part of the PETA writer responsible. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Outreach, Save the Bees
Tagged animal abuse, PETA, slavery
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Beekeeper Royally Stung
A rather sad story today. Sad on several levels. A couple of months ago, we learned that “Prince Charles’ beekeeper” was charged with using a prohibited chemical in his hives. The chemical is a medication used throughout North America and … Continue reading
Posted in Beekeeping, Diseases and Pests, Honey, Save the Bees
Tagged bee medications, organic honey, Prince Charles, Scotland, tetracycline
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Sweet Stats
Yesterday, Stats Canada released honey bee numbers for 2016. Canada now has more colonies ever. That’s right – more hives of honey bees than ever, in all of our recorded history. Our numbers are now over 750,000 colonies. The last … Continue reading
Hate Nation’s Bees
I’m pretty fussy about the shows I catch. Unless they include bees – then I’ll watch almost anything. The folks over at the London School of Economics beekeeping site mentioned a British dystopian thriller, Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation. … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Movies, Save the Bees
Tagged Black Mirror, dystopia, Hate Nation, murderous bees, Robobees
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Lawsuits Amidst Toxic Allegations
Australia is having a food fight. Well, a honey fight, actually, and there are lessons aplenty to be found in it. First off, a Save the Bees gentleman, Simon Mulvany, of Melbourne, launched a name-calling campaign against Australian honey packer … Continue reading
Posted in Commercial Beekeeping, Honey, Save the Bees, Strange, Odd Stuff
Tagged Australia, Capilano, lawsuits, toxic honey
9 Comments
Noxious Milkweed?
The Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gazette had a story yesterday about a fellow in Monticello who ran afoul of the law for something he’s growing in his back yard. His crime? Cultivating (Milk)weed. Bee and butterfly enthusiasts know milkweed. So do … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Ecology, Honey Plants, Humour, Save the Bees
Tagged Iowa, milkweed, monarch butterfly
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Climb Every Mountain; Raise Every Dollar
It seems that Saving the Bees has turned into quite a nice little cottage industry. Although honey bees are more numerous today than any time in history, some people seem intent on telling other people that the honey bees are … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, Outreach, Save the Bees
Tagged CBC, CCD, colony collapse disorder, mountains, school outreach
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Should a “Bee City” Ban Honey Bees?
In February, Toronto became Canada’s first certified Bee City. This week, a bedroom community just outside Calgary became Canada’s second. I heard the news last night on a CBC radio interview of Dr. Preston Pouteaux, a hobby beekeeper who apparently … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Outreach, Save the Bees
Tagged Alberta, Bee City, Chestermere, Native Bees, pollinators, Ralph Cartar
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It Doesn’t Take an Einstein
You’ve seen the memes. Albert Einstein is pictured with a caption that says “if honey bees disappear from earth, humans would be dead within 4 years!” I got tired of seeing this repeated and decided to dig deeper than the … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, or lack thereof, People, Save the Bees
Tagged bee extinction, Einstein, Maurice Maeterlinck, Nobel Prize
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Bad Beekeeping Blog 