Many people thought bees were ugly and useless. We're now finding out that bees are important to the health of millions of plants
and that mass killing them via pesticides isn't good. Sharks are considered ugly by many people yet many are against finning them.
#An Open-source Hive To Save The Bees You may have heard by now: bees are dropping like flies continuing to die at unprecedented rates
and the reason why is still a bit of a mystery. So to give them a leg up the group Open Tech Forever has developed a beehive that can track the health of bees
and is giving the code away to anyone who wants it. From the project site:
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.
This isn't the first attempt to enlist new technology to solve the bee crisis
since the Bee Crisis is something that needs a solution soon. Below is a closer look at the hives
#Pollinating Bees Are The Pesticide Deliverymen Of The Futurehere's another reason to pay attention to dwindling bee populations:
Bees might be the organic pesticide spreaders of the future. While they go to work pollinating our crops bees could simultaneously bring natural microbial pest control agents to help those crops stave off disease.
Using a technique called bee vectoring researchers force bees to walk through a pesticide before they can exit their hives coating them in a fungus bacterium
or virus that will then be delivered in small amounts to the plants they already pollinate.
That is if we can get enough bees to do it. America's honeybee population is dying.
but CBC News writes that the type of organic pesticides used in bee vectoring are not harmful to the bee (or us for that matter).
Save the bees from disease and they can in turn save our food. CBC News w
One additional worry is that a weakening and eventual reversal in the field would disorient all those species that rely on geomagnetism for navigation including bees salmon turtles whales bacteria and pigeons.
Even more creatures such as bees and some bacteria use a sense of magnetism for finding their way around their local territories for a north/south
We now know what's been killing off the bees but what about that family that died after eating that new Winderbread whole wheat bread?
More than Honey a recent documentary about the death of domestic honeybee hives around the world includes the amazing bees'-eye video of this flight above.
They shot other bee scenes in the documentary showing the insects moving around in their hives or feeding at flowers at 70 frames per second to show each bee's minute movements.
More than Honey is in theaters now in the U k. It's already had its run in the U s. showing in New york in June and in Los angeles in August.
A Bee's Knees calls for gin lemon and honey syrup. A Margarita mixes tequila lime and orange liqueur.
Raw sugar simple syrup (equal parts sugar and water) agave syrup (equal parts agave nectar and water) honey syrup (equal parts honey
or honey dilute it with equal parts of water. Keep in mind that lemons and limes are not the same sourness as each other
#How Robo-Bees Could Save America's Crops Something is killing off up to half of America's bees--terrible news for bees
Fewer bees not only means less honey it means less food. Researchers at Harvard are working on a partial solution--tiny drones the size of bees (not to be confused with drone bees the mostly useless males of a bee colony.
The drones are designed flying robots to be small enough to pollinate a flower (they weigh just 80 milligrams.
This enables the robo-bees to flap 100 times a second--fast enough to float in the air as a regular bee would.
The robo-bees aren't ready for prime time yet. Because they're so tiny they can't fit a battery pack for power.
The bees will need also some sort of computer so they can guide themselves in flight. Right now there's no onboard guidance mechanism--again they just don't have the real estate. Still:
robot bees! Robot bees! That's pretty great. Totally crazy to think that technology can be as efficient as the natural bee in pollination.
Sure use inefficient technological bees in pollinating GMO crops with temporary pesticide herbicide and insect resistance and add a boatload of money to the cost of growing them.
Let's concentrate on saving biodiversity and not replacing it with technological dead end solutions!!!jesus what a stupid fucking crock of shit.
Next they'll hybridize with African robot bees and we'll have ROBOT KILLER BEES everywhere.
This idea is similar to the Pet Rock. Utter nonsense! until I saw the check of $7004 I did not believe that my friends brother could actualie making money in their spare time online..
How about NOT killing the bees in the first place? Put a fuel cell in them m
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Activated stem cells not plasma activated but real trophin and peptide based activation are the bees knees
Aphids bees and ants can reproduce asexually. Virgin births sometimes occur among hammerhead sharks turkeys boa constrictors and komodo dragons.
the disappearance of bees; the arrival of unprecedented hundred mile per hour straight line wind storms called âÂ#Âoesuper derechosã¢Â#Â;
In nature animals which use the field could be confused mightily-birds bees and some fish all use the field for navigation.
Did you happen to notice how all the bees are dieing? We eat those pesticides as well.
The protein is very selective generally not harming insects in other orders (such as beetles flies bees and wasps.
and using the country for its genetic experiments regardless of the consequences to the indigenous living organisms nearby. has tried not anyone yet to connect the colony collapse disorder a k a. the dying bees. i mean the phenomenon has been observed
since the 1800's but never been on this magnitude of disappearances observed in the past decade. it was not just the pesticides. it may perhaps be a simple case of the bees starving
because the genetic material of the food they collect--the nectar--may have already been contaminated heavily from contact with GMO material that has escaped from dedicated-GMO farms. bee larvae do feed on honey
preventing proper development from larvae to adult in bees leading to population loss. just a possibility worth going into.
The elk are eating so many berries including the entire berry shrubs that animals that rely on the shrubs like bees
#10 Spectacular Bees Native To The U s. The Augochloropsis anonyma looks like a weird bee. It's got that familiar bee shape tilted abdomen oblong eyes
but its body fuzz is white instead of yellow; its eyes are white; and its skin is iridescent jade-aqua-blue-purple.
The Augochloropsis is one of 4000 bee species native to the U s. Honeybees on the other hand are more recent settlers that European farmers brought to America in the 1600s.
Surveys done in the past few years have found that both types of bees contribute to pollinating U s. crops with native bees playing an especially important role for American plants such as pumpkins blueberries and tomatoes.
because their habits differ from those of most native bees which tend to be solitary
Honey-and bumblebees'social structures mean people are able to cultivate them in hives and drive them around to places that need them.
They're especially important in industrial farmlands such as those in central California where there's little habitat left for native bees.
however may be pollinated partly or mostly by native bees. In 2009 researchers studied 11 apple farms in New york state and found 81 species of native bees.
Small farms could depend entirely on native bees though larger farms required honeybees. The natives may be especially effective at pollinating foods native to The americas including cherries and cranberries.
Another major difference between native and honeybees is that the natives don't suffer from colony collapse disorder a mysterious condition that's killed off on average one-third of domestic honeybee colonies every year since 2006.
That's because native bees don't suffer from the same pests and viruses that honeybees do
Nevertheless native bees may be threatened by pesticide residues but that hasn't been studied well Droege says. The U s. Geological Survey has set up a program to capture and record bee species all over the continent.
The survey will ramp up this winter to include 50 collection sites. Droege hopes to collect enough data to know
whether native bee populations are rising or falling. In the meanwhile he and his collectors have gotten great photos of Augochloropsis and other weird natives.
This article originally listed eggplant as an example of a plant that's native to The americas and better pollinated by native bee.
Bees are magical and bring life upon the Earth. I adore BEES!..I am not secretly ease dropping on you.
I am microscopically'analyzing'your communication and saving it for further'analysis'on the premise you might be a terrorist.
I would see to it that bees were kept on that farm and I would use all of the honey for the sole purpose of feeding the bees in winter time.
The honey substitutes that are being fed to bees weakens their immune system making migrating pollination services unreliable and expensive.
Seeing to it that bees are kept always on site at all times will help both the farmers and the bees.
There is a world wide decline of bee's. o one knows why and no one has a clue how to slow
or stop the decline. A professor at Texas A&m has been studying bees for 30 years
and has documented the losses of hundreds of types of bees. We might be able to live without bees
but it will be a very bleak world. It would be more useful to dedicate resources to the bees than some of the other government programs.
The Minneapolis-based advertising agency I work for Clarity Coverdale Fury is in the midst of a campaign called Buzz Karma to donate 500000 bees to rural families in third world countries via Heifer International.
With each like or share of our video located at www. Buzzkarma2013. com our donation increases.
Families are given training along with the bees so they can have a sustainable source of income.
It's a really easy way to do good without much effort t
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#European Bee Sperm bank Will Improve U s. Bee Gene Poolhere's a new idea for protecting the declining honeybee population in the U s. One team of scientists is importing European honeybee semen for fun
The team based at Washington state University has imported bee semen from subspecies that live in Italy Georgia and the eastern Alps.
European beekeepers have suffered also from colony collapse disorder so it's not that European bees are more resistant to the problem.
An injection of European sperm will diversify the American bee gene pool however which may lead to healthier American insects.
Beekeepers began reporting colony collapses in 2006 according to the U s. Department of agriculture. Since then an average of 33 percent of human-managed hives in the U s. have died every year.
If hives continue to die at this rate pollinating would be come much more expensive driving up food costs in the U s. the U s. D. A. says.
Crops from almonds to berries to broccoli to onions all depend on bee pollination. In addition to breeding colony collapse-resistant bees the Washington researchers hope to breed new bees with other traits American farmers from different regions want.
Italian honeybees for example are quick to reproduce a boon for American farmers in warmer areas who want bees to pollinate early-blooming crops.
Farmers in cooler states on the other hand want bees that wait longer to reproduce past when they might be threatened by a late frost.
And what they can't use now the researchers will freeze for later in a bee sperm bank.
The sperm bank brings unique genetic diversity to America's bees. Since 1922 when scientists discovered a parasite was likely causing large bee die offs in England the U s. has restricted the import of live bees from overseas.
For decades the bans protected U s. bees from the 1922 parasite but they made the U s. bee gene pool small.
To expand their ability to breed healthier bees the Washington team members got a special permit from the U s. D. A. in 2008 to import the semen they want.
The semen is screened for viruses before it comes into the U s. That means of course that the task of collecting bee semen falls upon the U s. team's colleagues overseas.
I would totally do it but there's this whole ban thingã¢Â# so I guess you're going to have to sorry about that.)
To do the deed researchers press gently on a mature drone's abdomen which pushes semen out.
To improve the breed someone bred African bees with South american bees. The disastrous result: the killer bees now invading North america...
@uldissprogis Wrong there are multiple endangered species on this list in the United states. Including the Franklin Bee located in Oregon
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Because They're Eating Inferior Honey Substituteshoney is good for you and it's a nice natural substitute for sweeteners like table sugar or high-fructose corn syrup.
But it's good for bees as well --and vitally important to their well-being as it turns out.
Honey contributes a detoxifying effect that can protect bees from pesticides. For American agriculture bees are valuable not for their honey
but for their pollination services--without them you wouldn't have almonds blueberries tomatoes and a long list of other crucial crops.
For this reason bees are hired often out by the hive to pollinate farmers'fields. That means they are exposed to a wide range of pesticides meant to ward off other insects.
Researchers are making headway in mapping the genes that help bees overcome these obstacles including
They're present in honey something commercial bees don't get to keep--their food supply is taken for human use
and bees are feed sweet substitutes like corn syrup. Wenfu Mao and colleagues found three compounds in honey that increase the expression of a gene that helps bees metabolize pesticides.
The most important chemical is called something p-coumaric acid which is found in pollen cells. By eating honey which contains pollen the bees are exposed to a compound that basically boosts their ability to break down dangerous chemicals.
So honey substitutes like high-fructose corn syrup may compromise their health. Scientists knew pollen ingestion helps bee health
but they haven't been sure why. This study pinpoints one crucial reason. After comprehensive testing and development p-coumaric acid may à   nd use as an additive to honey substitutes to allow beekeepers to maintain colonies during food shortages the authors write without compromising the ability
of their bees to defend themselves against the pesticides and pathogens that currently bedevil beekeeping in the United states. The paper is in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
I'm gonna make a wild guess here. I put all the blame on Monsanto. Hey I've got and idea.
I've been seeing articles about micro robots the size of flies great invention. How about manufacturing them by the zillions
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth man would only have four years left to live...
But even if he never really said it BEES ARE FREAKING IMPORTANT! Thank you. Same here kormiko.
Here's my take on why Northam bee colonies are dying off: in a word Monsanto and genetically-altered organisms (GMO.
What I find amazing is the fact that people believe that they can take away the food bees have created for themselves
and think that it wouldn't harm the bees in any way. Speaking of Monsanto.
We're feeding bees high fructose corn syrup? Who are the geniuses who know this already
but can't figure out what's wrong with bees these days? Does anyone even eat honey?
Wrong hypothesis. In reality bees are rebelling because beekeepers are keeping 95%of their productive efforts.
Would you be busy as a bee if someone taxed your at the 95%level?
The answer is no. It's not that they are dying off they are simply foraging less just enough to sustain themselves.
No sense in working all the daylight hours only to keep the beekeeper in luxury. I think Ayn Rand wrote a book covering this.
is that while honey may be good for the bees and their immunity...the corn syrup they are forced to eat en route to their next pollination gig...
Do bees really eat that much honey that people need to replace it with sugar? Sugar is not food geniuses?
Once the bees have malnutrition ANYTHING could kill them easily. how bout we get one hive that only has gmo flowers
Our government office in charge being run by the person responsible for this assures that this is not going to go well for U s as to the honey not being feed left to the hives;
there are many grades of honey and some of these grades are harder for a beekeeper to sell than others.
Seems to me that some middle ground can and will be found by some beekeepers. But it won't last.
History tells us that this'colony collapse'is new. Didn't happen 100 years ago.
The practice of taking honey was being used but colonies didn't collapse. So while I think that some will find a middle ground that will begin to show promise it won't last
That nature might not be able to adapt to these crops in time for evolution to allow bees to process the crud they are being forced to collect all day into honey.
As of today we've still introduced no'fix'so the clock is still counting down to a world with very few bees.
For decades scientists knew that bees took on new jobs as they aged but a team of researchers recently discovered that chemical tags attached to the bees'DNA play an important role in determining their career paths.
The tags which are frequently methyl groups control gene expression which in turn affects how an organism behaves.
Foraging bees for instance could become nurses if the hive requires it. Humans also carry epigenetic tags that may affect their behavior Scientists found methyl groups attached to a stress-hormone-receptor gene in child-abuse victims who committed suicide.
If these chemical cues can be changed in bees scientists may find new treatments for people with psychological trauma mood disorders and learning disabilities too.
Flowering Season To exploit the increase in available food young bees that would normally become nurses immediately develop into foragers a switch reflected by changes in their epigenetic tags.
Swarming Effect When a queen gets old she flees the hive with a swarm of mostly nurse bees leaving the colony and its larvae to her successor.
Some foragers and free-agent bees will then shift to nursing. In a lab experiment after half of a hive's population was taken away only 10 percent of foragers became nurses.
or infirm nurse bees secrete a royal jelly high in fatty acids and protein and feed it to a few larvae.
Nurse Most female bees begin their lives as nurses who care for the queen and larvae.
They clean wax cells for the queen's eggs and feed the larvae honey and pollen.
Forager When most nurse bees turn two to three weeks old the gene expression in their brains changes
A nurse bee starts with a few DNA tags 1. More tags turn it into a forager 2. Tag removal reverts the bee to a nurse role 3. Tags:
The mechanism for inducing epigenetic changes in bees is understood not well but scientists suspect that pheromones exuded by the forager bees might play a role.
Genes: Epigenetic tags such as methyl groups determine how much of a gene is expressed or whether the gene is expressed at all.
A protein produced in a nurse bee will look different and serve a different function than one produced in a forager.
That bee research could have an impact on the treatment of depression (see conclusion in printed article)
and that bees are disappearing is not just alarming but critical to our survival as a species. Fascinating stuff-it would be interesting to understand more about this foragers are programmed to be frail issue as it seems to contradict the young bees that would normally become nurses immediately develop into foragers in the flowering season.
Frailness as they define it seems to be induced and independent of age.@@cinenabon-please be more precise in
if you want to perpetuate the'bees are disappearing'idea. The bees referred to in the research in Arizona were likely (for several reasons) to be only a single species of honey bee...
and sure although domestic honey bees and their keepers have issues there are actually around 20000 species of bees on the planet 90%of them are solitary and not social.
The discussions about bees dying mostly relates to lazy media perceptions of honey bees being the only (key
and important) species. In actual fact if you read the Garibaldi study published in Science on March 29 2013 Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance there is strong evidence to suggest that the media
perceptions of a strong correlation between the survival of humans and honey bee is simply false.
Instead of perpetuating the myth about the importance of honey bees we need to speak out about and'campaign for solitary bees'(LMGTFY
#Building A Better Bed bug Trap An old folk remedy involving hairy bean leaves strewn around the bedroom may have a new life as a modern bed bug trap according to new research from the University of California Irvine
and bean leaves similar trichomes on other plants are known to capture ants aphids bees flies
#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.
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.
New york times The most viable hypothesis is that mobile phones bandwidth is disorienting and killing Bees. And is developed a world phenomenon not just NA.
No bees on Mars just sayin...It is GMO crops watch the documentary on Netflix
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.
and begin raising native and gentle solitary bees. We just had an online conference that you can view at:
and with Monsanto having purchased the Dept of agriculture the bees are dead already. We will be a full welfare nation soon dependent for our base food needs.
and the bee's accumulate them further. im surprised no one notices. I think it is a pity that one thing is mentioned never.
Bees live in symbioses with plants. So they must evolve together with the plants. However plants are selected now
(or modified) by humans and not bees anymore. We don't select new plants how much they benefit the bees.
The bees have no voting rights when the farmer selects his seeds. On the long term this will lead to worsen relation between the bees and the plants.
It might that this is already happening. Lucas K. âÂ#Âoeif the bee disappeared off the face of the earth man would only have four years left to live.
âÂ# âÂ#ÂALBERT Einsteinthere's a long article Colony collapse disorder on wikipedia that is definitely worth reading if you're interested in this subject.
That awkward moment when some random joe badbot tells scientists to google it because apparently one's google Ph d means a lot more than a University Ph. dreally we could probably find a way to artificially pollinate plants.
what is killing the bees which are very adaptable is also killing other bugs and animals then the statement âÂ#Âoe...
If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth man would only have four years left to live...
It was first report was in the American Bee Journal in 1918 not 2005 as the source article suggests.
Some Bee trivia you may or may not know.;)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?
Also I don't see anyone talking to you or asking you something so just taking any word out of context is plain ignorance/troll attitude.
well technically research and associative patterns have showed a strong correlation between bees being affected and negative sources of non-iodizing radiation (the correct term to use)
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.
There won't be anything definitive regarding the bee die till it is already over there are interests at stake
when the bees go too. In fact many of the plants where you would expect to see bees in the past will be history
when the bees are history. It will not surprise me to learn that this has been planned and is a long time coming in the corporate world-it coming to a head just slightly after the establishment of a highly secure seed vault in the northern oceans
and with the growing use of (forced use of) GM seeds that are owned strictly corporate.
Yes when the bees die there will really be very few avenues for people to feed themselves that won't be controlled corporate.
It goes without saying that a bee die off will make the ledge that we have been moving onto that much narrower-a misstep in any direction will have dire consequences-even for the extremely wealthy.
when the bees population started it's decline and compare it with the pesticides that gained market share since that time.
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