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Stung By Bees.(Science)(pollination)
Byline: Rowan Jacobsen
A mysterious ailment of honeybees threatens a trillion-dollar industry and an essential source of nutrition.
FOR 3,000 YEARS, FARMERS IN CHINA'S SICHUAN PROVINCE POLLINATED THEIR fruit trees the old-fashioned way: they let the bees do it. Flowers produce nectar that attracts bees, which inadvertently transfer sticky grains of pollen from one flower to another, fertilizing them so they bear fruit. When China rapidly expanded its pear orchards in the 1980s, it stepped up its use of pesticides, and this age-old system of pollination began to unravel. Today, during the spring, the snow-white pear blossoms blanket the hills, but there ...
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...Although wind and wild bees can also perform the task...says domesticated honey bees are easily the best pollinators...far more of them than wild insects at the vital time of year...the year with 35,000 bees, will systematically...farmers, administering bee contracts where fruit...
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...exterminating them. "Bee Catchers removes bees from areas where they...to take care of honey bees through our live bee removal and relocation...of pollinating honey bees stable while removing...That's what sets Bee Catchers apart from...
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- Magazine article from: Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication Weir, Kirsten April 16, 2004 700+ words
...examine it under a microscope. When the bee warmed up, the pair set it free. BEES GONE WILD Miro and Tommasi found that Vancouver is buzzing with 56 bee species, nearly all solitary bees. Unlike the familiar honeybees that live...
- Bee gets busy with possible Congress run: GOP state Senate chief seeks donors...
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...Aug. 22--State Senate President Tim Bee took his latest step toward a possible run...Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. At the top of Bee's do-to list: Amass enough money to...campaign war chest. In order to do that, Bee will file papers establishing an exploratory...
- Bee losses have suspected causes.(News)
- Magazine article from: Feedstuffs Lundeen, Tim May 21, 2007 700+ words
...catastrophic die-offs to bee populations in the winters...vector for a number of bee viruses, though varroa...especially deadly. While many bees this year are exhibiting...could be harmful to the bees themselves. At present...cause of this year's bee declines. Also, the...
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- Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot Mccaskey, Scott May 18, 1997 700+ words
...to managing their bee farms and renting...hive or colony of bees - often containing...smoke-pot to get the bees moving, he will direct...into a specialized bee box, which has a...abdomens, acts as the bees' furniture, making...periodically checked by state bee inspectors to make...
