Park rangers in South Africa are investigating a bizarre incident in which dozens of endangered African penguins appear to have been killed by honey bees.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/bee-swarm-kills-63-endangered-penguins-in-fluke-occur-1847707457
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A firefighter was also taken to the hospital after the attack from the bees that came from a 100-pound hive.
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-killed-arizona-bee-swarm-two-others-hospitalized-after-hundreds-n1275455
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Commercial beekeepers in the US say counterfeit honey from Asia is forcing down prices and pushing them to financial collapse
Imports of cheap, fake honey from Asia are pushing American beekeepers to financial collapse, according to a lawsuit.
Thousands of commercial beekeepers in the US have taken legal action against the country’s largest honey importers and packers for allegedly flooding the market with hundreds of thousands of tonnes of counterfeit honey.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/may/01/us-beekeepers-sue-over-imports-of-asian-fake-honey
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Despite the dangers, more Yemenis are turning to the sector as an alternative means of income
According to the Qur’an a lone sidr tree, or jujube, marks the highest boundary of heaven. On earth, amid the harshness of the Yemeni desert, the sweetness of sidr honey is cherished as a symbol of perseverance.
Yemen has long been renowned for producing some of the best honey in the world, often compared to Mānuka honey from New Zealand. Some of the highest quality, and purest, comes from bees fed exclusively on the flowers of the sidr, producing a pale coloured honey with a fiery, almost bitter aftertaste.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/23/liquid-gold-beekeepers-defying-yemen-war-to-produce-honey
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Not since 1923 have scientists gazed upon the Australian cloaked bee. That is, until recently when scientists located a few populations in the wild. But its rediscovery comes as a mixed blessing owing to its potentially threatened status.
Source: https://earther.gizmodo.com/striking-australian-bee-spotted-for-first-time-in-a-cen-1846363441
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A global study finds that species numbers reported in the wild fell sharply between 1990 and 2015.
Source: https://www.wired.com/story/a-quarter-of-known-bee-species-havent-been-seen-since-1990/
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Global study finds that species numbers reported in the wild fell sharply between 1990 and 2015
The number of wild bee species recorded by an international database of life on Earth has declined by a quarter since 1990, according to a global analysis of bee declines.
Researchers analysed bee records from museums, universities and citizen scientists collated by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, (GBIF) a global, government-funded network providing open-access data on biodiversity.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/22/quarter-of-known-bee-species-have-not-been-recorded-since-1990
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You may have heard at one time or another that honeybees hibernate in the winter. Insects use many different methods to survive cold weather, but bees do not hibernate. The beekeepers at Bell Farm in Iowa explain what they do to stay warm. — Read the rest
Source: https://boingboing.net/2020/12/23/how-bees-stay-warm-in-the-winter.html
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Enlarge / Avoid getting these near your eyeball. (credit: Getty | Matt Cardy)
There are precious few things that could truly make 2020 worse than it already is. But a rare bee sting right to the eyeball might be one of them.
Doctors this week published an image of just such an uncommon ocular impaling. The image, appearing in the New England Journal of Medicine, also included a brief report of the patient’s condition and recovery. The details confirm that although reading about this horror show of a year may sometimes feel like getting repeatedly stabbed in the peepers, the real thing is actually far more unpleasant.
The patient was a 22-year-old male who showed up at a hospital’s emergency department with redness, pain, and decreased vision in his left eye, which had taken a bee sting about an hour earlier. Though the man had 20/20 vision in his right eye, he reported only being able to see hand movements close to his face with his left eye.
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Source: https://arstechnica.com/?p=1727462
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The data will help protect vital pollinators and could lead to new bee discoveries, say scientists.
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55006902
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Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/washington-state-discovers-first-murder-hornet-nest-in-us-washington-state-agency-honeybees-asian-nest-b1258833.html
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‘Since the majority of upper respiratory tract infections are viral, antibiotic prescription is both ineffective and inappropriate,’ researchers state
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The first male “murder hornet” in the U.S. has been found in Washington state, the state’s department of agriculture …
Source: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/512586-first-us-male-murder-hornet-captured-in-washington-state
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If you’re buzzing about this species, this is how to welcome them into your outdoor space
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/house-garden/gardening/national-honey-bee-day-plants-catnip-seedbomb-bath-garden-a9668841.html
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Bee’s tongue is adapted perfectly to lapping syrupy nectars
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/honeybee-nectar-consumption-sucking-dipping-tongues-discovery-a9666346.html
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If you welcome wild bees to your garden, your plants will be able to reap all the benefits, writes Adrian Higgins
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/bee-hotel-house-garden-wild-wasps-gardening-rewilding-a9585836.html
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Bees biting plants, making them flower up to a month earlier than they usually would, could be a result of global warming
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Andy Gregory looks at how capital’s hidden rooftop honeybee populations are faring during coronavirus pandemic and finds they are dealing with an outbreak of their own
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/world-bee-day-london-rooftops-coronavirus-foulbrood-swarms-hives-a9523231.html
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Asian giant hornets (known as ‘murder hornets’) have shown up in the US for the first time, giving Americans a “refreshing” change of pace and something else to worry about other than the deadly Covid-19 pandemic
In any other year, reports of murder hornets being in the US for the first time ever might instill some fear in people, but with the news dropping in the midst of a pandemic that has crippled the economy and left people under strict lockdown orders, it appears to have been greeted mostly with humor.
So THIS is how the Governors are going to encourage social distancing…
— Dirty Hands (@splintergroupie) May 2, 2020
‘Murder hornets’, a name coined by researchers, popped up for the first time in the US in December when four sightings were verified by the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA), according to a report from the New York Times.
Asian giant hornets are the largest hornet species in the world. They destroy honeybee hives by killing the bees and using them to feed their young. According to the WSDA, it only takes a few hornets to decimate a honeybee hive in a matter of hours.
Pleased to meet you North America. #MurderHornets pic.twitter.com/Jbv0M42wQr
— Murder Hornet (@HornetMurder) May 2, 2020
The worry now is these hornets could spread in the US and have a serious effect on the bee population, which in turn negatively impacts the many crops that need bees for pollination.
The WSDA has started an “aggressive trapping program” to stop the spread of the hornets and, hopefully, another potential crisis.
How have people responded to the news? Battleworn from Covid-19, the potential for a crisis with ‘murder hornets’ has been taken surprisingly well.
So far we’ve had a pandemic, an asteroid, aliens, and now murder hornets. Maybe it’s time we just gave up on 2020? pic.twitter.com/HO7Wgqvqcb
— Alice Wright (@alicewrightnyc) May 2, 2020
👏INSECTS👏HAVE👏NO👏RACE👏OR👏ETHNICITY👏AND👏DO👏NOT👏DISCRIMINATE👏STOP👏CALLING👏MURDER HORNETS 👏ASIAN 👏 https://t.co/6aoCG9VE5J
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) May 2, 2020
“Instead of ‘murder hornets’ i propose we call them ‘nice hornets’ and see if it improves their attitude,” one Twitter user wrote.
Can we call them Manslaughter hornets instead, I’m sure it’s not on purpose
— Sam (@FuncleSamm) May 2, 2020
I welcome our new flying overlords.
— Ain’t dead yet (@Survivo65016091) May 2, 2020
“We’re kind of busy at the moment. Please read the room,” another person said.
Cuomo: In May you’ll be able to go back outside
2020: haha yeah okay…MURDER HORNETS ATTACK! https://t.co/6fpQP0Q72e
— johanny (@Johannymota) May 2, 2020
2020 in a nutshell:
First we had the coronavirus and now we got murder hornets pic.twitter.com/XqcbliiiyT
— Peter Griffin Burner (@PeterGriffinAcc) May 2, 2020
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