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Do the Honey Bee! Rap Video Builds Buzz About Threats to Bees

In honor of National Honey Bee Awareness Day, five creative brothers from Los Altos, California made a rap video in which bee-costumed dancers shake their stingers to raise awareness about the plight of honey bees worldwide.
With some heavy reliance on Auto-Tune and the backing of the bee angels at Häagen-Dazs, Max Lanman, a 21-year-old senior [...]

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Organized Criminals Stealing Bees in the UK

Organized networks of thieves are sneaking around under cover of night, stealing something very valuable by the millions. So what else is new, right? Well, what they’re taking isn’t exactly your run-of-the-mill loot. Beekeepers in Britain are waking up to find entire colonies stolen, and the culprits are more than likely not your average criminals, [...]

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Colony Collapse Disorder Appearing Again in East Coast Hives

In 2006, beekeepers began reporting unsettling losses to their hives – up to 90%, in some cases. The phenomenon, called Colony Collapse Disorder, was first reported in Western honey bee colonies in North America and has since cropped up around the world. Late last year, however, bee populations seemed to be growing again, and beekeepers [...]

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Honeybees Susceptible to Cocaine Addiction

Despite the fact that cocaine repels most insects, researchers have found that honeybees can become addicted to the substance and even suffer withdrawal symptoms. Bees on cocaine behave the same way humans do, throwing themselves into highly energetic dance routines and talking incessantly to their nest mates.
From The Guardian:
The research, carried out at Macquarie University [...]

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The Lost Ladybug Project: Help Scientists Save Disappearing Ladybugs

First it was bees, which are important to the balance of the environment in so many ways – especially pollination. Now, populations of ladybugs around the world are inexplicably disappearing, and these once-ubiquitous little beetles also perform an important service in the natural world: controlling the population of harmful crop-destroying insects. After noting a sudden, [...]

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‘Colony Collapse Disorder’ in Bees Could Affect Food Prices

As if we needed another thing pushing up the cost of food, it’s now looking like the mysterious malady facing bees across the world may affect food prices as well. We need bees to pollinate crops in order to grow fruits, vegetables and grains. We need to grow this food in order to [...]

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