There is chemically no difference between the sugars in honey and the high fructose corn syrup. Honey has some impurities in it (bacteria pollen other bee-related things)
but it is otherwise the same. In fact some unscrupulous honey companies use HFCS to extend their honey
and it is almost impossible to stop them because its so hard to tell the difference in the lab
Who wants honey or vanilla flavour in their whiskey? bacon fat or buttery? sounds yech.
Should I crave honey and vanilla I buy an ice cream and for bacon an buttery I'll get a breakfast.
It would be even more fun with added names brands of the beers-e g. today i want to try Pale with Honey...
$0 Thomas Hudson an engineer and bee keeper in Portland Oregon wanted to log his insects'comings
Infrared sensors that detect bee movement flank the ends of each tunnel and count entries and exits.
Keep track of bees is fun; nothing better than a honey bee to do list. The thermal flash light appears to be warm additions to the home do-it-yourselfer for maintain domestic efficiency.
The Bee counter is amazing. The bike clock is cool but seems a lil unfinished witht he paint job being undone.
Hey though Greg De Gouviea lives in my town and he is known for his Half assed work character.
#Bees Make A Big Stink To Protect Flowersimagine you're a bee. Buzz buzz you're looking for flowers.
Now as you might imagine there are competing bees afoot--naturally you're not the only species looking for pollen and nectar.
You might imagine that with competing bees--eavesdroppers--around it is best to communicate quietly.
A new study found that in the presence of competitors several species of stingless bees make a big stink about the location of their food (somewhat literally:
the bees signal its location with loads of smelly pheromones. Perhaps counterintuitively they found this actually helped both themselves and their competitors for this reason:
or flower they tend to defend it heavily against other bees. So by making their flower-claim clear the species signals that they have found it
On the other hand food sources with fewer pheromones were visited readily by competing bees. Until now it was thought that eavesdroppers select against conspicuous signals for example by more easily finding
Many species of stingless bees by the way also produce honey and the craft of rearing and producing the sugary treat from these animals is an ancient one (called meliponiculture) practiced for example by the Maya to this day t
#Obama Starts Task force To Prevent Bee Deaths The task force will have to come up with a strategy within six months to reverse this decline.
The initiative doesn't only focus on bees but also addresses other pollinators like butterflies. The Federal government will also work to restore the Monarch butterfly migration using research
and honey bees the statement said. What's going on with bees? As the White house noted the decline is blamed on various factors from a lack of good habitat to exposure to certain pesticides to mite infestations and viruses.
Part of the total $50 million is slated to enhance research as to a cause for the bee deaths.
Some environmental groups said that Obama didn't go far enough and should have done specifically some about neonicotinoid pesticides
which have been linked to bee deaths. The administration should prevent the release and use of these toxic pesticides until determined safe Friends of the Earth president Erich Pica told the AP P
To attempt to use this technology at this current stage of understanding would be more naã Â ve than our use of DDT in the 1950s the National Honey Bee Advisory board said in comments submitted to the E. P. A. before the meeting
But until recently inventors lacked the aerodynamics expertise to turn diagrams into mechanical versions of something as quotidian as a fly or a bee.
And the stubby wings of bees and other insects lift far more weight than can be explained using conventional steady-state aerodynamics principles.
or buzz of a bee says Jayant Ratti Techject s president. A flapping-wing drone utilizing resonance generates significant improvements in energy efficiency creating optimal lift with minimal effort.
#How Honey Bees Point Their Way To Foodhoney bees can give each other directions using polarized light as a landmark to find potential food.
which the honey bees perform to inform others about where to find food is actually based on the patterns of polarized light.
Researchers have explored previously how bees'eyes see the polarized light and use it to navigate
With this study scientists at the University of Queensland have found that the so-called waggle dance bees perform translates that polarized light map of the sky into the movement that guides others.
Fellow honey bees will then follow the polarized light as dictated by the waggles. Since the polarization of light indicates
when the honey bee returns to perform the dance on the vertical face of the honeycomb the axis of the dance indicates in which direction relative to the light the food source lies.
Building on previous studies that have examined how waggle dances can be altered by illuminating the hive with artificially polarized light these experiments demonstrate that foraging bees can sense
And beyond giving a better understanding of how honey bees find their way the study may also help to shed more light on how the tiny bee brain works. w
or the honey bees that produce mangrove honey rely on one or the other. Both provide valuable ecosystem services buffering floods storing atmospheric carbon and building soils.
and females were produced in honey bee colonies. He knew that the difference between queen and worker bees--both females--emerged from the different quality and quantity of food.
The authors studied 14 natural sequence variants of the complementary sex determining switch (csd gene) for 76 genotypes of honey bees.
First honey bees are ideal study subjects because they have one gene locus responsible for sex determination.
In addition Hunt and Page found that the honey bees'high recombination rate--the process by which genetic material is mixed physically during sexual reproduction--is the highest of any known animal studied
which then lead to functional changes in the bees--the switch that determines the shift from female to not female said Page.
and cold spots in the honey so that some of it is soft and some is said hard Konfal
and if you press down on the surface of the honey with a spoon the honey will move away from the spoon
And when you take the spoon away the soft honey won't uniformly flow back up to fill the void
because the hard honey is still pushing on it. Or put another way ice compressed West Antarctica's soft mantle.
and vegetable crops rely on pollination by bees and other insect species--and the future of many of those species is uncertain.
Widespread concerns over the fate of honey bees and other pollinators have led to increased efforts to understand which species are the most effective pollinators
when one bee visits one flower. Second is abundance which measures the number of each type of bee observed in a study area.
Third is inclement weather behavior which tracks how active a bee species is during cool cloudy and/or windy weather.
Fourth is visitation rate or the number of flowers that a bee visits while foraging and the amount of time it spends at each flower.
The perfect bee would produce a lot of seeds and visit a lot of flowers even in poor weather--and there would be a lot of them Burrack says.
But as far as we know the perfect bee doesn't exist. The researchers conducted a pilot study using their comprehensive approach to assess the pollination performance of various bee species on economically important highbush blueberry crops in North carolina.
They found that small native bees had extremely high single-visit efficiency rates and were active during inclement weather.
However small native bees did not have high abundance nor appear to have high visitation rates This highlights the importance of incorporating multiple metrics says Dr. David Tarpy an associate professor of entomology at NC State
and co-author of the paper. Because researchers looking only at visitation rates or abundance may think the small native species are unimportant
when they actually appear to be important pollinators for blueberry growers. The paper Multiple Criteria for Evaluating Pollinator Performance in Highbush Blueberry (Ericales:
#Himalayan flowers shed light on climate changeflower color in some parts of the world including The himalayas has evolved to attract bees as pollinators research has shown for the first time.
and RMIT University have investigated the evolution of flower colors due to the bee's color vision.
Associate professor Adrian Dyer of Monash and RMIT said previous studies had shown that flower color evolved to attract bees as pollinators in temperate environments
Using computer models to examine flower colors as bees would see them the team addressed how pollinator vision had shaped flower evolution.
and alpine (3000-4100m) regions showed evidence of having evolved color spectral signatures to enhance discrimination by bee pollinators.
but it appears that in The himalayas several bee species are also active at high altitude
and these insects have been such effective pollinators that they have led to the evolution of distinctive bee-friendly colors Dr Shrestha said.
While'bee colors'were prevalent at all elevations flower colors in high altitude zones were more diverse
#Battle against bee blood eating Acarimexico is one of the top five bee producing countries worldwide and the second in exportation.
However the beekeepers can see their production affected by the attack of a parasite the Varroa acari
which feeds on hemolymph of the bees. Currently the control methods employed are of synthetic origin
besides is not rare to find traces of it in the bee wax and honey.
Seeing this disjunctive researchers from the INIFAP talked to the beekeepers about the organic control of the pest employing powdered thymol
and cheaper the acari doesn't develop resistance to it nor it generates residue on honey
or bee wax if generating appropriately. Miguel Arechavaleta Velasco head of research at INIFAP explains that Varroa is an acari that feed on bee hemolymph;
like a tick it produces a disease in the colony called varroasis that can kill entire hives being the main problem that beekeepers face worldwide.
Among the organic product that we have studied thymol has given encouraging results; it's an essential oil obtain from thyme.
but we developed a different application form resulting easier and cheaper for the beekeeper: The proposed method consists in using powdered thymol mixed with powdered sugar.
and placed in hives 90 days before bloom begins The most part of the honey produced in Mexico is exported mostly to Europe where health standards are very high mainly concerning chemical residues.
Is feasible to apply in any beekeeping region in Mexico and is directed not only to the production of honey pollen
The researcher specialized in bee genetics points out that the developed technology was published recently on INIFAP we are in process of validation using field tests with beekeepers
but covered with spikes that can entangle with the hairs on bees'legs or adhere to surfaces via Van der waals forces at nanometer-scale distances Sandhage explained.
#Queen bees honesty is the best policy for reproduction signalsqueen bees convey honest signals to worker bees about their reproductive status
and quality according to an international team of researchers who say their findings may help to explain why honey bee populations are declining.
However this study demonstrates that queen honey bees are conveying a lot of nuanced information through their pheromones.
Beekeepers have been worried very about their queens since they seem to not be lasting as long--a few weeks
and turnover that beekeepers have been reporting. The researchers who represent Penn State North carolina State university and Tel aviv University describe how they assigned queen bees to a variety of treatment groups.
When workers replace failing queens it is particularly damaging to beekeepers since it can take up to three weeks for the new queen to begin laying eggs
and disease-resistant stocks of honey bees Niã o said. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Penn State.
#Sex determiner gene of honey bee more complicated than thoughtbee colonies consist of a queen bee lots of female worker bees and some male drones.
The gene that determines the sex of the bees is much more complex than has been assumed up until now
Male honey bees (Apis mellifera) hatch from unfertilized eggs and females from fertilized ones. In these fertilized eggs the condition of the complementary sex determiner (csd) gene is of crucial significance for the creation of female workers.
The vitality of a bee population depends on amongst other things the genetic diversity of sex determining alleles.
therefore very important for apiculture for minimizing the danger of inbreeding and thereby the production of diploid drones.
His research foci include the social insects honey bees bumble bees and stingless bees the unique biology
and distribution of the bee species Braunsapis puangensis in the Suva area of Fiji and examine its association with the invasive creeping daisy Sphagneticola trilobata.
The paper suggests that the invasive creeping daisy could in fact have a positive influence on a wild bee pollinator species
honey bees and solitary bees. One species of solitary bee Braunsapis puangensis was locally abundant on patches of S. trilobata in the Laucala Bay area of Suva.
This bee species is probably of Indian origin and was carried most likely to Fiji by anthropogenic means.
There is growing concern regarding the global decline of honey bee populations and the implications of this demise for the pollination of crops.
In the future we may rely on other insect species to perform crop pollination services including naturally-occurring native
or introduced species of bees comments one of the authors of the paper Dr Simon Hodge from Lincoln University in New zealand.
and discomfort but for those with a bee venom allergy the consequences can be devastating:
In a paper to be published online Oct 24 in Immunity the researchers show that mice injected with a small dose of bee venom were later resistant to a potentially lethal dose of the same venom.
To find out whether adaptive immune responses could help mice resist bee venom Marichal and Starkl first injected mice with a low dose of venom equivalent to one or two stings.
In all three groups of mutant mice pre-immunization with a low dose of bee venom did not confer protection against a lethal dose suggesting that the protection depends on Ige signaling and mast cell activation.
if the animal encountered a whole nest of bees or in the event of a snakebite said Stephen Galli MD professor and chair of pathology and the co-senior author of the study.
#Bees underwent massive extinctions when dinosaurs didfor the first time ever scientists have documented a widespread extinction of bees that occurred 65 million years ago concurrent with the massive event that wiped out land dinosaurs and many flowering plants.
Their findings published this week in the journal PLOS ONE could shed light on the current decline in bee species. Lead author Sandra Rehan an assistant professor of biological sciences at UNH worked with colleagues Michael Schwarz at Australia
's Flinders University and Remko Leys at the South australia Museum to model a mass extinction in bee group Xylocopinae or carpenter bees at the end of the Cretaceous and beginning of the Paleogene eras known as the K-T boundary.
Previous studies have suggested a widespread extinction among flowering plants at the K-T boundary and it's long been assumed that the bees who depended upon those plants would have met the same fate.
Yet unlike the dinosaurs there is a relatively poor fossil record of bees says Rehan making the confirmation of such an extinction difficult.
Rehan and colleagues overcame the lack of fossil evidence for bees with a technique called molecular phylogenetics.
Analyzing DNA sequences of four tribes of 230 species of carpenter bees from every continent except Antarctica for insight into evolutionary relationships the researchers began to see patterns consistent with a mass extinction.
Combining fossil records with the DNA analysis the researchers could introduce time into the equation learning not only how the bees are related
The data told us something major was happening in four different groups of bees at the same time says Rehan of UNH's College of Life sciences and Agriculture.
While much of Rehan's work involves behavioral observation of bees native to the northeast of North america this research taps the computer-heavy bioinformatics side of her research assembling genomic data to elucidate similarities and differences among the various species
Marrying observations from the field with genomic data she says paints a fuller picture of these bees'behaviors over time.
Indeed the findings of this study have important implications for today's concern about the loss in diversity of bees a pivotal species for agriculture and biodiversity.
The article First evidence for a massive extinction event affecting bees close to the K-T boundary was published in the Oct 23 2013 edition of PLOS ONE.
The bees don't distinguish among half and full sisters and nobody knows why for sure. So this is an example of a veil of ignorance Queller said.
It works to the advantage of the colony because if the bees can't tell half and full sisters they'll be out foraging rather than loitering near the queen cells to make sure a full sister becomes the next queen he said.
The bees apparently recognize one another by means of distinctive hydrocarbons in their cuticles or exoskeleton.
But within the colony the hydrocarbons rub off on other bees and on nest material as the bees feed groom
and move about so that the hydrocarbons get mixed together creating a general colony odor. The question said Queller is:
#and the beesare our favourite garden flowers attractive to hungry visitors such as bees and butterflies to feed on?
Researchers at the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects (LASI) at the University of Sussex have completed one of the first scientific studies to put the business of recommending pollinator-friendly garden flowers on a firmer scientific footing.
pollinators such as bees and butterflies are in decline globally with one of the main causes being the loss of flowers especially in the countryside.
As popular support for wildlife continues to grow gardeners are increasingly looking for ways to help bees
as it is known to be attractive to bees and also four dahlias. All the plants studied had to be popular garden plants be widely
and his Phd student Mihail Gaburzov was that garden flowers attractive to the human eye vary enormously (approx 100-fold) in their attractiveness to insects meaning that the best plants for bees
Bees (87 per cent) and hoverflies (nine per cent) were the most frequent visitors with butterflies and moths just two per cent and all other insects also two per cent.
The researchers observed clear differences in the mix of bee and insect types attracted by different varieties indicating that careful plant choice can
But our study clearly shows that planting pollinator-friendly flowers is a no-cost win-win solution to help the bees.
The plants attractive to bees are just as cheap easy to grow and as pretty as those that are less attractive to insects.#
#oehelping bees in your garden is a no-brainer. Flowers that attract bees are just as easy to grow
and just as pretty and cost no more. Plant the right flowers and the bees will come.#
#Mihail Garbuzov says:##oewe basically counted bees and other insects visiting flowers in bloom to determine the most attractive.
Anyone can do this in their own garden or park or even when shopping for plants in a garden centre.#
#1#Quantifying variation among garden plants in attractiveness to bees and other flower-visiting insects Functional Ecology (October 2013.
which the researchers decoded the honey bee communication dances had shown that summer is the most challenging season for bees to find flowers
Ants more closely related to bees than to most waspsants and bees are surprisingly more genetically related to each other than they are to social wasps such as yellow jackets
and bees were related more distantly with ants being closer to certain parasitoid wasps. Ants bees and stinging wasps all belong to the aculeate (stinging) Hymenoptera clade--the insect group in which social behavior is developed most extensively said senior author
and ant specialist Phil Ward professor of entomology at UC Davis. Despite great interest in the ecology and behavior of these insects their evolutionary relationships have never been clarified fully.
In particular it has been uncertain how ants--the world's most successful social insects--are related to bees
and bees are related more closely than previously thought. This result should be important for future studies focused on eusocial evolution as it suggests that morphology may not be a good indicator of evolutionary relatedness in these groups of organisms he said.
--and genomic (DNA) data from a number of species of ants bees and wasps including bradynobaenid wasps a cuckoo wasp a spider wasp a scoliid wasp a mud dauber wasp a tiphiid wasp
and a sweat bee Lasioglossum albipes. Of particular interest was the finding that ants are a sister group to the Apoidea a major group within Hymenoptera that includes bees
and sphecid wasps (a family of wasps that includes digger wasps and mud daubers). The UC Davis results also provide a new perspective on lower Cretaceous fossil Cariridris bipetiolata originally claimed to be the oldest fossil ant.
#Stress a key factor in causing bee colonies to failscientists from Royal Holloway University have found that
when bees are exposed to low levels of neonicotinoid pesticides --which do not directly kill bees--their behaviour changes
and they stop working properly for their colonies. The results showed that exposure to pesticides at levels bees encounter in the field has subtle impacts on individual bees
and can eventually make colonies fail. This discovery provides an important breakthrough in identifying the reasons for the recent global decline of bees a trend that has baffled many experts worldwide.
One in three mouthfuls of our food depend on bee pollination said lead author Dr John Bryden from the School of Biological sciences at Royal Holloway.
By understanding the complex way in which colonies fail and die we've made a crucial step in being able to link bee declines to pesticides
and other factors such as habitat loss and disease which can all contribute to colony failure.
Exposing bees to pesticides is a bit like adding more and more weight on someone's shoulders. A person can keep walking normally under a bit of weight
Similarly bee colonies can keep growing when bees aren't too stressed but if stress levels get too high the colony will eventually fail added Dr Bryden.
Our research provides important insights to the biology of pollinators said co-author Professor Vincent Jansen.
which bees work together is the key to their success but could also contribute to their decline and colony failure.
Pesticides can have a detrimental effect on bees at levels used in the field said co-author Dr Nigel Raine.
The way we test pesticides the way we assess their impact on bees and the way we manage pesticides can all be improved.
#Health of honey bees adversely impacted by seleniumtraditionally honey bee research has focused on environmental stressors such as pesticides pathogens and diseases.
and selenocystine--cause mortality and delays in development in the honey bee. Metal pollutants like selenium contaminate soil water can be accumulated in plants
Our study examined the toxic effects of selenium at multiple life stages of the honey bee
The honey bee is an important agricultural pollinator in the United states and throughout the world.
In areas of Se contamination honey bees may be at risk because of the biotransfer of the metal from Se-accumulating plants.
In the case of the honey bee Se enters the body through ingestion of contaminated pollen and nectar.
or if the bee has the ability to detoxify these compounds at all Hladun said. Further research is necessary to examine the cellular and physiological effects of selenium.
Hladun explained that honey bees may also be more susceptible than other insects due to a lack of detoxification enzymes that other insects still possess.
Further honey bees at the larval stage are more susceptible to selenium relative to other insect species. Mortality within the hive can reduce the number of workers
Honey bees are social animals and their first line of defense against environmental stressors is the foraging bees themselves.
High concentrations of Se will not kill foragers outright so they can continue to collect contaminated pollen and nectar
According to Hladun knowing which contaminants are the most important to regulate is key to minimizing the exposure of honey bee hives to contaminants.
Beekeepers can take steps to prevent bees from foraging during flowering periods of plants that have exceptional pollutant levels
Currently the researchers are conducting experiments feeding honey bee colonies with Se-laden food. They will monitor the bees for changes in survival and behavior.
In addition they are exploring the effects of other metal pollutants (cadmium copper and lead in particular) that have been found in honey bee hives especially the ones located near urban or industrial areas.
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