they pulled out a container of dehydrated and salted bee larvae, and explained to me that the primary focus of the insect project is
Larvae is a byproduct of beekeeping, some typically removed and discarded so there is excess honey to harvest later on.
The Food Lab receives the bugs in different stages of development: older pupae with the beginnings of a differentiated thorax and abdomen,
Reade explained that bee larvae were an excellent gateway insect for breaking down the mental barriers people have to ingesting bugs.
On this day they decided to try it with bee larvae. Reade pulled out a chunk of koji barley inoculated with fuzzy green Aspergillus oryzae,
Reade used a Thermomix to blend the koji with bee larvae and salt water (the salt keeps the pathogenic microorganisms at bay as well as enabling the enzymes, some beneficial bacteria and various strains of yeast to flourish).
For example, bees, birds and some bats might all visit the same flower for nectar, but at different times of the day and year.
including city beekeepers, foraging tour guides, permaculture activists and green roof advocates. The latest to emerge from this scene are three independent but related players
While looking for the bees and donkeys, Masson eventually received a photograph from the Ferme de Paris of four black sheep,
it turned out the honey had been transshipped from China. That's bad for two reasons. First, the importing company was not paying the proper tariff.
Second, the honey in question contained antibiotics that are regulated more closely in the United states. It turns out
however, that honey from China has a very unique signature. Technology for tracing food origins has been available for decades.
or nonexistent when it comes to issues like beekeeping, chickens, or selling produce. But last week Pittsburgh's city council adopted new rules to better align the city with its residents, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
Some of the codes will make it easier to own a commercial farm--with bee, crops, poultry,
And most importantly, for the beekeeping community, the practice, which code previously ignored, is permitted now. For community gardens, the city was also silent on the legality of selling produce,
Burgh Bees--For all aspiring beekeepers in Pittsburgh, this is an organization to get acquainted with. They offer beekeeping classes,
and turned a vacant lot into the city's first community apiary. Know of other cool urban agriculture projects happening in Pittsburgh?
and raise animals for food--chickens, bees, et cetera. Another aspect of the study is to  work on a standard lease agreement that can be used by various city departments with vacant land to make it easier to lease those spaces for community gardens.
we also talk about honey making and transforming a pool into an aquaponic system. We saw that all these disparate pieces had a through-line of conscious creativity.
Updated Jan 29 around 10:05 a m. PST adding reference to alternative nuclear's improved waste managementcover photo of Half Dome at Yosemite is from Diliff via Wikimediathe land of milk and honey-and radiation:
Scientists create artificial bee eye for potential robot, flying vehicle usebees are known to have great vision
The lightweight imaging system, detailed in the Bioinspiration & Biometrics journal, features an artificial bee eye with a camera that aims to recreate an insect's processing and navigation skills.
The bee eye camera uses a curved reflective surface built into acrylic glass with lenses covering the frontal field to replicate an insect's view.
In the future, researchers plan to include UV to recreate a bee's color vision, which is used by honeybees to recognize flowers.
This model is also useful for simulating the visual input of a bee-like agent in a virtual environment.
The imaging system in combination with our bee eye model can serve as a tool for assessing the visual world from a bee perspective
It's a new trend of San francisco-area companies embracing the bee. The Wall street journal reports that firms across the region are adding  beehives  to their headquarters
founder of City Bees, a beehive management and advocacy group in San francisco...While there are no known statistics on how many buildings
says Philip Gerrie, president of the San francisco Beekeepers Association. He says many businesses were spurred to help fortify the bee population by previous reports of a phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder, in
which worker bees fail to return to their hives, leaving the colony to fend for itself. But it's not just tiny startups with apiaries,
major tech companies are investing in beekeeping projects. WSJ points to Intel's five beehive and 200
000 bees and the four hives at Google's headquarters. In addition to pollinating flowers on their grounds and throughout the region,
the two companies use the honey in the employee  cafeteria  and offer beekeeping classes.
Companies Get Sweet on Bees Wall street  Journal Photo: Flickr/nicolas. boullosa
Singapore to unveil world's first'mechanical forest'On June 29th, officials in Singapore will open to the public the world Â's first mechanical forest.
Located in in the Bay South garden, the one-of-a-kind park showcases a total of 18 man-made supertrees, massive structures towering as a high as 50 meters over the ocean bay.
using bee venomscientist have tried previously to engineer plants to detect bombs and environmental contaminants and have created even a better artificial nose to sniff out explosives,
MIT researchers created a carbon nanotube with a bee venom-based sensor, designed to detect traces of explosives.
when the bee venom peptides target molecules found in explosives. Since the proteins reacted differently,
and East Malling Research have come up with a novel way of using bumble bees to deliver minute quantities of bio-fungicide to strawberry flowers.
ADAS and East Malling Research have been using bumble bee pollinator hives which are introduced already commonly to commercial strawberry crops to ensure good pollination.
The experimental approach (not yet approved in the UK) involves the bees moving through a specially designed dispenser
As the bees move through the dispenser a minute quantity of a powdered formulation of the bio-fungicide containing Gliocladium catenulatum adheres to their bodies and legs.
During the last two years of field trials this harmless bee-delivered control system was demonstrated to be a practical alternative to fungicide applications
Data from this Hortlink project and ongoing trials in Finland and Belgium, where this technique is already being adopted will be used to support an application for pesticide registration of this fungicide dispersed by bees in the UK.
Bionic beesengineers from the universities of Sheffield and Sussex are planning on scanning the brains of bees
Bionic bees--or perhaps that should be"beeonic"--could, it is hoped, be used for a range of situations where tiny thinking flying machines should be more useful than current technology,
They might even help pollinate plants in places where natural bee populations have fallen due to the still-mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder.
It's important to note that this won't be an entirely comprehensive model of a bee's brain--it's only going to be associated the parts with its sense of smell and vision.
including bees, have personalities like vertebrates--let's hope they upload a relatively laid-back bee's brain,
lest it go rogue
The kitchen nano gardennothing can be as frustrating as loitering and searching for fresh vegetables from the market.
Communication among a swarm of bees decentralized and leaderless is a particularly compelling model for an automated system
Manufacturing the bees has required completely rethinking materials and process. Last week, the team announced a new method of mass production that takes a page from pop-up books.
Laser cut sheets of fibers expand with one smooth movement into the shape of a bee.
Bee rustling on the risethe British countryside is being menaced by a new type of criminal-bee rustlers.
Beekeepers say the increasing shortage of bees and the rising price of honey have made hives,
complete with their inhabitants, a target for thieves. They say thefts have been reported at bee farms across a wide area-from the New Forest in Hampshire to Whitby in North yorkshire.
Because specialist knowledge is required to move and keep bees, experts believe that in some cases rival keepers may even be to blame.'
'Heartbreaking'The biggest theft so far happened at a strawberry farm near Telford in Shropshire,
where 18 hives containing about a million bees used to pollinate the strawberry crop were stolen. Police are investigating
The theft came as a shock to the bees'owner Richard Lindsey.""I couldn't believe it,
"The apiary was cleared out. There was nothing left except the stands the boxes stood on.""Mr Lindsey estimates the haul could be worth up to £6, 000 on the black market."
but you never think in your wildest dreams that bees could be targeted, "he says. He runs the Great Little Honey Company with his wife, Marieanne,
who says it was"heartbreaking"to discover so many hives had been stolen.""Beekeeping's not an easy job even at the best of times,"she says."
"It's been a real struggle in the past few years with the decline in bees generally.
Really, this is the last thing we need."'"'Planning required'The collapse in bee colonies in recent years has been rapid and steep.
The british Beekeepers'Association says the bee population fell by nearly a third between 2007 and 2008.
Disease, wet summers and certain pesticides have all been blamed for the fall in numbers, but no definitive cause has yet been found.
The shortage of bees means those that survive are all the more valuable, according to John Howat, of the Bee Farmers'Association.
and move bees.""I always thought we beekeepers were an honest crowd of people, but I suppose in every activity you get a rogue element."
"Although there are no exact figures available, the government's National Bee Unit-set up to protect the honeybee in England
and Wales-says it is"aware"of an increase in thefts. Satellite tracking It advises keepers to brand wooden hives with their name and address
and to keep bees out of sight where possible. A spokesman says:""It's always going to be difficult to keep a constant watch on an apiary,
but there are practical steps beekeepers can take to reduce the opportunity for theft and increase the chance of recovering stolen equipment."
"The Lindseys are already taking steps to protect their remaining hives. They are considering installing satellite tracking devices so the hives'whereabouts can be traced should any be stolen in the future.
because bees seem fun and it doesn't seem that important, but this is our livelihood
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