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#Why are Newfoundland s honey bees parasite free? Penn State rightoriginal Studyposted by Sara Lajeunesse-Penn State on July 3 2014some honey bee colonies in Newfoundland Canada are free of invasive parasites found elsewhere in the world.

Scientists say the discovery offers a unique opportunity to investigate honey bee health. nvasive parasitesâ##such as Nosema ceranae a fungus

and Varroa destructor a miteâ##have incurred heavy economic penalties on the honey bee industry via colony losses

and reduced productivity of surviving colonies and both parasites threaten global food security because of reduced pollination services to agriculturesays Nancy Ostiguy associate professor of entomology at Penn State. he extent to which these detriments are attributable

to specific parasite species is difficult to assess however because of the occurrence of multiple parasites within honey bees.

because few areas in the world have western honey bee colonies that are free of invasive parasites. stiguy

and her colleagues found a geographical area in Newfoundland in which a number of important invasive honey bee parasites including Varroa destructor

The researchers used molecular techniques to test for the presence of viruses and Nosema ceranae in honey bee colonies managed by beekeepers.

and parasites of honey bees along with various stressors such as pesticide exposure with the goal of providing information to help keep honey bees healthy. ur ability to find European honey bee populations free of invasive

and pathogens of honey bees. n addition to Ostiguy researchers from Acadia University Forestry and Agrifoods Agency Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Agriculture and Agrifood Canada Dalhousie University and University

#onest pheromones may explain decline in queen bees Queen bees are always truthful with worker bees when it comes to communicating their reproductive status and quality.

And scientists say this may help explain why honey bee populations are declining. e usually think of animals chemical signals (called pheromones) as communication systems that convey only very simple sorts of informationsays Christina Grozinger professor of entomology

and director of the Center for Pollinator Research at Penn State. owever this study demonstrates that queen honey bees are conveying a lot of nuanced information through their pheromones. n addition until now no one knew

In other words whether or not they have mated with a lot of males. hy do worker bees care if their queen is mated well?

if worker bees are able to detect poorly mated queens and take steps to remove them that could be an explanation for the rapid rates of queen loss

and turnover that beekeepers have been reporting. n the journal PLOS ONE researchers from Penn State North carolina

Finally the researchers presented the gland extracts to worker bees and observed the extent to which they were attracted to different extracts.

The team found that worker bees preferred pheromone extracts of queens that were inseminated with semen rather than saline.

or saline were preferred by worker bees. hese results suggest that queens are signaling detailed and honest information about their mating state and reproductive quality to workers

and workers are capable of adjusting their behavior accordinglyniã o says. hen workers replace failing queens it is particularly damaging to beekeepers

and therefore reduces honey production and even pollination efficiency. he team also found that the mandibular gland

Graphene consists of a single atomic layer of carbon, arranged in a honeycomb lattice. ur first Science paper,

Called wastage grocery shelves are invaded constantly by everything from fake corn flakes to counterfeit honey selling under false labels to adulterated wines

#Explosives and Pesticides Can Be detected by Using Bee venom Scientists from MIT have discovered that by coating carbon nanotubes in bee venom,

and fellow chemical engineers coated one-atom-thick tubes of carbon with protein fragments found in bee venom,

This is certainly a novel approach for using the proteins found in bee venom. It seems there are a number of potential uses for the poison,

and tests have demonstrated that even the sensitive honeybee is unaffected, ##Davis said. The two##real reasons##nobody has moved ahead with SBSP,

Honeybees pollinate nearlyone-third of the food we eat but they have been dying at unprecedented rates because of a mysterious phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD).

Honeybees alone contribute more than $15 billion in value to U s. agricultural crops each year. But Robobees are not yet a viable technological solution.

the tiny bots have to be able to fly on their own andtalk to one another to carry out tasks like a real honeybee hive.

Will robot bees eventually be able to operate like honeybee hives to pollinate commercial crops? Ma:

You could replace a hive of honeybees that would otherwise be working on a field of flowers.

The best configuration, a honeycomb lattice with a 50 nanometer coat of alumina, is less dense than waterthat is,

#Could bacteria from honeybees replace antibiotics? Bacteria are increasingly outsmarting our most overused antibiotics creating a boom of drug-resistant diseases.

Could honey's secret weapon against bacteria be other bacteria? Researchers in Sweden recently discovered a unique group of lactic acid bacteria living inside honeybees'honey stomachs an enlarged section of esophagus where the insects store nectar while foraging.

According to a newly published study those 13 bacteria are experts at stifling other bacterial infections including dangerous superbug strains such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Pseudomonas aeruginosa and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE.

These bacteria represent one of the greatest symbiotic flora ever found in a single organism the researchers write protecting all honeybee species

It seems to have worked well for millions of years of protecting bees'health and honey against other harmful microorganisms.

However since store-bought honey doesn't contain the living lactic acid bacteria many of its unique properties have been lost in recent times.

Each of the 13 lactic acid bacteria (LAB) plays a role in turning nectar into honey according to the study

and microbial threats that varies with season and honeybee health. This study bodes well for developing countries given the availability of fresh honey

but also for many developed nations where antibiotic resistance is on the rise. The researchers say their next step is to investigate wider use of these bacteria against topical infections in more animals including humans n

and by cooling the sample quickly after the reaction the researchers could produce up to ten single-atom layers of carbon in graphene's signature honeycomb pattern.

As honey is poured from a jar, it can resemble rope or thread, drizzling onto a surface in wavelike patterns.

Graphene a single layer of carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice is increasingly being used in new electronic and mechanical applications such as transistors switches

because when light is absorbed by the electrons suspended in the honeycomb lattice of the graphene they do not lose their heat to the lattice

Collaborators from the electron microscopy center at the University of Warwick in England found that all the atoms in both materials formed a single honeycomb lattice structure, without any distortions or discontinuities.

which is a single-layer sheet of carbon atoms in a honeycomb lattice that was made first in 2004 by Andre Geim

graphene is a 2d sheet of carbon just one atom Thick with a'honeycomb'structure the'wonder material'is 100 times stronger than steel, highly conductive and flexible.

Within the honeycomb-like lattices of monolayers like graphene boron nitride and graphane the atoms rapidly vibrate in place.

#So to give them a leg up the group Open Tech Forever has developed a beehive that can track the health of#bees

The Open source Beehives project is a collaborative response to the threat faced by bee populations in industrialised nations around the world.

The project proposes to design hives that can support bee colonies in a sustainable way to monitor

If you're a professional beekeeper or hobbyist and handy with electronics you get a double-whammy:

a free design for a high-tech beehive that can monitor your bees'environment and#a chance to contribute to citizen science.#

#Something Is Killing Up to Half Of America's Bees There's some kind of environmental issue/plague/apocalypse killing America's honeybees

Before about 2005 beekeepers might lose 5 to 10 percent of their hives when winter rolled around.

Now some beekeepers are losing more than 50 percent to what's called colony collapse disorder. New pesticides called neonicotinoids which are implanted directly into plants might be to blame but nothing's definitive the New york times reports.

That means a poor yield for beekeepers and ultimately problems for consumers. Bees don't just make honey remember

but pollinate a ton of what we eat--as much as a fourth of it. That could lead to less food and higher food prices.

Capitalism is a failure Marxism is the outcome capitalism has lead to this democracy becoming a corptocracy. telegraph Mobile phones responsible for disappearance of honey bee and many others just google ithailey.

Bee (mythology) en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Bee %28mythology%29bee-keeping www. reshafim. org. il/ad/egypt/timelines/topics/beekeeping. htmthe

First Beekeepers ferrebeekeeper. wordpress. com/2012/05/18/the-first-beekeepers/Scientists? Huh the scientists debate on popsci forum that is how you reason?

and mapping their frequencies and power outputs one is able to see a correlation within a set radius of bee populations affected by theses sources of non-iodizing radiation.

or none RF radiation would be places of high bee population. I wonder if this has been looked at to give validity to the above theory.

a layered form of carbon atoms constructed to resemble honeycomb, called graphene. Graphene was heralded globally as a wonder-material thanks to the work of two British scientists who won the Nobel prize for Physics for their research on it.

Instead, silicon nanopillars are arranged precisely into a honeycomb pattern to create a etasurfacethat can control the paths and properties of passing light waves.

a company called Flowhive has emerged as the highest grossing campaign on Indiegogo, raising over $6. 8 million for its honey-on tap technology,

and diverse honeycomb passages leading to a single microphone in the center of the disk.

but the amount of water (the structure of the honeycomb) influences the exact frequency. All those voices can

The honeycomb structure of graphene"The business implications associated with this filing are significant and near term.

These PDA particles capture pore-forming toxins such as those found in bee venom. Chen and Wang successfully discovered that the strong swimming mechanisms of their microfish actually enhanced the ability to clear up toxins,

The proof-of-concept device looks a bit like a thick, plastic, pie-shaped honeycomb split into dozens of slices.

While the honeycomb openings may all look the same, their depth varies from hole to hole. he cavities behave like soda bottles

University of Toronto scientists have developed asymmetrical honeycomb-shaped 2d meshes of protein scaffolding that stick together like Velcro

1 billion of these nanomagnets were placed in a honeycomb pattern on a flat substrate. In total

a layered form of carbon atoms constructed to resemble honeycomb, called graphene. Graphene was heralded globally as a wonder-material thanks to the work of two British scientists who won the Nobel prize for Physics for their research on it.

In Longchamp's experiment, the tobacco mosaic virions were deposited on a freestanding, ultraclean graphene, an atomically thin layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice.

Now, a team of experimentalists led by the Department of energy's Oak ridge National Laboratory has demonstrated an energy-efficient desalination technology that uses a porous membrane made of strong, slim graphene--a carbon honeycomb one atom thick.

Ever since graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice, was created first in 2004,

Graphene is a single atomic-thick sheet of honeycomb carbon lattice, with unique electronic and optical properties,

a layered form of carbon atoms constructed to resemble honeycomb, called graphene. Graphene was heralded globally as a wonder-material thanks to the work of two British scientists who won the Nobel prize for Physics for their research on it.

but rather of silicon nanopillars that are arranged precisely into a honeycomb pattern to create a"metasurface"that can control the paths and properties of passing light waves.

A honeycomb pattern is overlaid on the left image. While the same goal can be achieved using an arrangement of multiple conventional optical components such as glass lenses, prisms, spatial light modulators, polarizers,

and they formed a tight honeycomb pattern, covering an area of 5 x 5 mm.

but also their arrangement in the honeycomb structure, so they can investigate the possibility of new states of matter."

Graphene, roughly 200 times stronger than steel by weight, is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern.

Graphene, roughly 200 times stronger than steel by weight, is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern.

Honeycomb of nanomagnets The magnets are only 63 nanometres long and shaped roughly like grains of rice.

The researchers used a highly advanced technique to place 1 billion of these tiny grains on a flat substrate to form a large-scale honeycomb pattern.

Borage family flowers (Echium angustifolium) as seen in human vision (left) and honeybee vision (right. To humans the flowers are a fairly uniform purple,

The researchers have provided specific data on camera settings for commonly studied animals, such as humans, blue tits, peafowl, honey bees, ferrets and some fish.

Instead, silicon nanopillars are arranged precisely into a honeycomb pattern to create a etasurfacethat can control the paths and properties of passing light waves.

The depth of the openings varies in each slice of honeycomb, meaning sound passing over each section has a unique pattern. he cavities behave like soda bottles

which resembles a crushed honeycomb. The shoes are the first illustration of a new method of weaving in three dimensions created by Nigerian American industrial designer Oluwaseyi Sosanya.

normally a small transparent plate resembling a honeycomb with 96 tiny wells. Specific antibodies are placed then into each well,

ELISA testing is performed usually with little honeycomb shaped plates that have 96 tiny wells embedded in them.

a single layer of carbon atoms is arranged in the form of a honeycomb structure. Its highly versatile nature makes it applicable for use in numerous electronics gadgets such as wearables, flexible displays and other sophisticated electronic devices."

Traditional ELISA testing is performed with small transparent plates that resemble honeycombs, typically with 96 tiny wells. Samples are placed in the wells first,

The White house released its National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey bees and Other Pollinators, calling for the restoration or enhancement of 7 million acres of land for pollinators over the next five years through federal actions and public/private partnerships.

Other goals of the strategy are to reduce honey bee colony losses during the winter months to no more than 15 percent within 10 years,

when commercial honeybees are pollinating their crops. BIO is a member of Croplife America (CLA),

and plant science solutions for agriculture and pest management in the United states. CLA welcomed today release of the White house National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey bees and Other Pollinators.

You can find here information on how Monsanto is helping the honey bees keep on buzzinand the work the company is doing to restore habitats for the monarch butterfly.

efore when I was looking at a plant in the garden it was like a honeycomb in the centre of my eye.

In order to coax the graphene-boron honeycomb into exposing its hidden behaviors, some additional outside influence needs to be imposed.

When the graphene-boron honeycombs are stacked out of alignment, they create something known as a oire pattern

by means of a roll-on coating consisting of a honeycomb of electrodes (see bottom right image).

Elastic buckling honeycomb structures. Known officially as negative-stiffness honeycombs, these hexagonal cell structures are named

so because they are able to provide continued support from repeat impact events. Current traditional honeycomb structures can support an individual only once before breaking down

and deforming permanently due to plastic buckling. Elastic buckling honeycomb structures provide the materials needed so that a given item could stretch

or bend and protect a victim or item when necessary, but return to its normal shape afterward without any inward breakdown of its parts.

who first dabbled into cloaking before he stumbled upon negative stiffness honeycombs last year. In fact, Leiden University Phd student Bastiaan Florijn created a sponge-like object as a prop for the concept at the American Physical Society March Meeting,

#New Honeycomb-Inspired Design Protects Against Impacts Conventional honeycomb structures are insular panels of repeating, often hexagonal-shaped cells in a range of sizes and configurations.

The shortcoming of conventional honeycombs is that they lose their full protective properties after only one impact due to plastic buckling of the material.

NS honeycombs, on the other hand, bounce back. The researchers devised a cell geometry capable of elastic buckling, giving NS honeycomb structures the resilience to recover their energy-absorbing shape and properties after impact.

which is like a honeycomb or chicken-wire-shaped lattice of carbon atoms. When these honeycomb structures are stacked on top of each other,

if they are out of alignment, they create a so-called moire pattern, which varies with rotation of the layers with respect to each other."

"While this honeycomb structure exists in graphite, a familiar bulk form of carbon, its special properties only show

"If you have a microwave and honey or molasses, you can pretty much make these particles at home,

honey bees can see and respond to ultraviolet signals, and fireflies use flash communication systems, Yu adds. rgans evolved for perceiving

The process is followed then by high temperature activation annealing (about 600 to 900 degrees Celsius) to form a honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, a typical microscopic structure of graphene.

the processing of the woolen fabric samples by using optimum amount of honeycomb nanocomposite such as N-Ag/Zno improves the biological, mechanical and hydrophilicity of the fabrics.

"Carbon atoms in graphene sheets are arranged in a regularly repeating honeycomb-like latticea two-dimensional crystal. Like other crystals,

which are organized in a honeycomb-like structure. The molecules have an incredibly thin 1d-channel,

The process is followed then by high temperature activation annealing (about 600 to 900 degrees Celsius) to form a honeycomb lattice of carbon atoms, a typical microscopic structure of graphene.

Then, they wrapped the Ag/Tio2 nanoparticles in sheets of reduced graphene oxide (RGO), a thin layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern.

Within graphene, benzene rings are fused to form a honeycomb structure. Sections of this structure, referred to as nanographenes or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHS), play an integral role in organic electronics.

#Here's how to make carbon nanoparticles with honey and a microwave Carbon nanoparticles can be incredibly useful in the treatment of many types of disease,

using a process that involves plain old honey and a microwave. The resulting particles are less than 8 nanometres thick (a human hair is around 80,000-100,000 nanometres)

"If you have a microwave and honey or molasses, you can pretty much make these particles at home,

The initial feedstock flows meet in a honeycomb catalyst carrier that can be designed for the efficient operation of both modes and mixing states.

Metallic honeycombs are used already as catalytic convertors of exhaust gas in cars. They are characterized by a high thermal conductivity and mechanical robustness with a low pressure loss during alternating operation modes.

The honeycomb catalyst can be implemented easily in various plant sizes. In the future it might be possible to efficiently operate even smaller decentralized units e g. at rural biogas facilities.

Thanks to the newly developed honeycomb catalyst also smaller and medium-sized plants can be operated efficiently y

#New honeycomb-inspired design delivers superior protection from impact The technology could have major implications for the design

Conventional honeycomb structures are insular panels of repeating, often hexagonal-shaped cells in a range of sizes and configurations.

The shortcoming of conventional honeycombs is that they lose their full protective properties after only one impact due to plastic buckling of the material.

NS honeycombs, on the other hand, bounce back. The researchers devised a cell geometry capable of elastic buckling, giving NS honeycomb structures the resilience to recover their energy-absorbing shape and properties after impact.

The researchers manufactured 3. 5-inch NS honeycomb structures, as well as miniature NS honeycomb cells, from nylon using selective laser sintering for experimentation.

NS honeycombs can be made from a variety of materials to suit distinct applications. Subsequent custom compression and drop tests, designed

and fabricated at UT Austin, have confirmed the NS honeycomb structures'predicted energy-absorbing behavior and resilience.

That funding and additional collaboration with the Maritime Applied Physics Corporation, an engineering company that frequently partners with the U s. military, helped support the advancement of NS honeycomb technology.

The researchers are also building a lab prototype of an enhanced combat helmet with NS honeycomb cells integrated that will be completed this fall.

Dr. Ho offers the example of honeybees as among the starkest examples of how epigenomics affects cellular function and an organism's fate.

In feeding a larval honeybee with copious amounts of a richly nutritious secretion called royal jelly,

a layer of silicon single atoms arranged in a honeycomb pattern that was fabricated first by researchers at UOW Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM) and their partners in Europe and China.

because silicon always adopt diamond-like structure but not honeycomb structures, he said. t also very unstable when exposed to oxygen.

bioengineering professor one of authors of the study, said that you just have to mix honey

despite being made from honey in the microwave, are very useful indeed. They can be used to carry a variety of different drugs into a human body.

In one case the scientists tested three different honeycomb structures made up of the same basic cell.

two of the three honeycomb structures moved preferentially in one direction but formed different new cell geometries in the process.

says Dunlop. Synthetic polymer honeycomb structures from a 3d printerthe composition of the cell walls plays a key role in the expansion process in the relevant cells of pinecones

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