Beekeeping

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Beekeepers coming to West Virginia for conference

AP News 15 days ago

<div id="subtitle">Hundreds of beekeepers to meet at West Virginia university this week for annual conference</div><div><p>The buzz around Marshall University this week will be about the importance of honeybees.</p><p>About 300 beekeepers were expected to join 12 vendors and dozens more ...

Mystery die-off worries beekeepers

AP News 15 days ago

<div id="subtitle">South Dakota Beekeepers Prepare for Honey-Making Season Amid Mysterious Bee Die-Off</div><div><p>The California winter has been a tough one on South Dakota beekeepers like Richard Adee.</p><p>Last fall he sent 155 semitrailer trucks to California loaded with hives containing bees ...

Tangerine growers tell beekeepers to buzz off

AP News 16 days ago

<div id="subtitle">California seedless tangerine growers, at war with beekeepers, say bees are the pits</div><div><p>Is it trespassing when bees do what bees do in California's tangerine groves?</p><p>That is the question being weighed by state agriculture officials caught between beekeepers ...

British beekeepers seek help to save honeybees

AP News 17 days ago

<div id="subtitle">British beekeepers swarm Parliament, demand more research into why bee colonies are failing</div><div><p>Beekeepers swarmed Parliament and the prime minister's office on Wednesday, demanding more funds for research after the number of Britain's honey bees dropped by nearly a third in the ...

The latest buzz for beekeepers is crop insurance

AP News 18 days ago

<div id="subtitle">Federal government making crop insurance available to beekeepers for first time</div><div><p>The buzz in the honeybee industry these days is about crop insurance — now available to beekeepers for the first time.</p><p>Some say the new program is expensive and amounts ...

Survey finds slower decline of honeybee colonies

AP News 20 days ago

<div id="subtitle">Federal survey finds slower decline of honeybee colonies, but other ailments are threatening</div><div><p>The decline of honeybee colonies has slowed slightly since last fall, but a mysterious combination of ailments is still decimating the insect's population, federal researchers say.</p><p> ...

Bee deaths set apiculture congress abuzz

AFP Global Edition 22 days ago

<div><p>Pesticides, viruses, industrialised farming, fungus... what on Earth is killing our bees?</p><p>That's the big question being asked at Apimondia, the 41st world apiculture congress, where 10,000 beekeepers, entomologists and other actors in the honey business are gathered in this southern French city ...

Iraqi honey industry battling to regain its buzz

AFP Global Edition 22 days ago

<div><p>Iraq's once-flourishing honey industry is struggling to revive itself, hit by long-term environmental degradation and six years of unrest that followed the 2003 US-led invasion.</p><p>"Honey production has fallen by almost half since the 1980s," when output of the prized sweet reached a ...

Survey: Honeybee colony collapse losses declining

AP News 25 days ago

<div id="subtitle">Survey finds fewer beekeepers reporting colony collapse disorder die-offs in honeybees</div><div><p>Fewer beekeepers are reporting evidence of a mysterious ailment that had been decimating the U.S. honeybee population.</p><p>But losses due to colony collapse disorder remain high enough to ...

Paris Beekeepers

AP News 180 days ago

This Aug. 26, 2009 photo shows beekeepers Marie-Laure Legroux, right, and Dominique Castel showing their beehives in the Luxembourg Garden in Paris. The bee business in Paris is thriving on famous rooftops and public gardens in the middle of the urban jungle, ...

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