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Bees declared “the most important living being on the planet,” but they may soon be extinct

November 23, 2020 -

As noted by the Earthwatch Institute during the debates, bees around the world have decreased by up to 90 percent, mainly because of massive deforestation, a lack of safe places for nests, a lack of flowers, the uncontrolled use of pesticides and changes in soil chemistry, among other things. Researchers believe that this decline in bee population will have devastating effects on the entire planet.

The world's agriculture is heavily dependent on bees ...

Bees live shorter, become sicker because of air pollution, scientists find

August 14, 2020 -

In one of the first major efforts to understand the impact of air pollution on animals, scientists from India's National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS) in Bangalore found that polluted air could be detrimental for some of the most important organisms to agriculture: bees.

In particular, the scientists found traces of toxic metals like lead, tungsten and arsenic on the bodies of bees collected from different locations in Bangalore, one of the largest ...

Bees love cannabis, and it’s helping to restore their declining populations

February 01, 2020 -

Entitled, "The Bee Community of Cannabis sativa and Corresponding Effects of Landscape Composition," this paper out of Cornell University explains how cannabis produces high amounts of pollen, which acts as a magnet for at least 16 different varieties of bees just in the northeastern United States alone.

As it turns out, the taller the cannabis plant, the more attractive it is to bees, the paper found. In fact, the tallest cannabis plants evaluated ...

The buzz behind bees: Essential allies for survival and prepping

2 months ago - bees and packed into honeycomb cells inside the beehive. The honey bees then mix the pollen granules with nectar and cover them in a thin layer of honey.

This mixture is allowed to ferment for some time to become the nutrient-dense bee pollen we all know and love.

Groovy Bee® Organic Bee Pollen from the Health Ranger Store is packed with highly bioavailable nutrients and antioxidants that support optimal health and well-being. Our ultra-clean bee pollen ...

Merritt Medical Hour: Dr. Jana Schmidt discusses the health benefits of BEES – Brighteon.TV

October 31, 2023 -

According to the former Navy physician and surgeon, beekeeping has a healing property and beekeepers are one of the professions with the longest lifespans worldwide. Schmidt, a certified natural health professional, attested to Merritt's remarks.

"The products that come from bees, and [the benefits of] utilizing them for yourself, is huge. We know bee pollen has every vitamin and mineral known for human nutrition," she said. "The list of health benefits that ...

Research reveals moths are more efficient night pollinators than bees

April 06, 2023 -

But according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Sussex, moths are more efficient night pollinators compared to other day-flying pollinators like bees.

The study was published in the journal PLOS ONE.

The scientists gathered data from 10 sites in the South East of England throughout July 2021. After analyzing the data, the research team discovered that 83 percent of insect visits to bramble flowers were made during the day.Moth ...

Just how amazing are bees? Without them, humans are in trouble

March 09, 2023 -

And there is no better pollinator than bees.

Being a bit constrained in terms of movement, plants need an agent to transfer the pollen from their male parts (called anther) to their female parts (called stigma).

When a bee lands on a flower, it attracts the pollen grains through electrostatic force. An ion exchange takes place between the positive charge of the bee and the negative charge of the plant. This is how the bee retrieves the pollen, then carries ...

U.S. government approves world’s first “vaccine” for honeybees – as if there aren’t already enough chemicals destroying our precious pollinators

January 15, 2023 -

The claim is that this new vaccine will help to fight the diseases that routinely ravage bee colonies, which are vital to food production. (Related: Honeybees have been under attack for many years by farmers who spray death-causing Roundup [glyphosate] herbicide on their crops – is there a vaccine for that?)

Dalan Animal Health, a U.S.-based biotechnology company, will manufacture the vaccine for commercial beekeepers, providing them with "a breakthrough in ...

Sweet discovery: Research reveals wild honeybees still exist in Galicia, Spain

December 19, 2022 - bees' nests and under which conditions they can survive.

At the suggestion of Alejandro Machado, the Spanish colleague of Kohl and Rutschmann, the research team began their studies in Galicia in October 2019.

The suggestion came about after Machado observed swarms of honeybees living inside hollow electricity poles and "apparently thriving there." The scientists looked for hollow power poles within a 136 square kilometer area to confirm if the region ...

Study: Pesticides are highly damaging to beneficial insects like bees

August 24, 2022 -

Scientists have found that the chemicals sulfoxaflor and imidacloprid, which are commonly sprayed onto plants to kill insects, block signals between nerves and target cells. This proves that pesticides are also highly damaging to beneficial insects like bees.

To give more proof of the dangers of pesticides, researchers from the University of Oxford showed how pesticides could impair bees' optomotor response, which usually manifests as movements that ...

Bee aware: About 75% of the world’s food crops rely on bees and other pollinators

May 26, 2022 -

More than 75 percent of the world's food crops relies on bees and other pollinators, either completely or in part, as do 90 percent of wild flowering plants. In the past five decades, there has been a 300 percent rise in the number of crops being produced that are reliant on pollination.

Slovenia proposed to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on December 20, 2017 to proclaim May 20 as World Bee Day. The resolution was the outcome of an initiative started in ...

Big lifters: Bees can carry almost their own bodyweight back to the hive when in “economy mode”

September 07, 2021 -

The study, conducted by scientists at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) showed that bees can fly using an "economy mode" that uses less energy when carrying heavy loads.

"They can carry 60, 70 or 80 percent of their body weight flying, which would be a huge load for us just walking around," Susan Gagliardi from the College of Biological Sciences at UC Davis said. "We were curious to see how they do it and how much it costs them to carry food and ...

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Seven honeybee species placed on endangered species list as pollinator collapse continues

South Carolina sprays for Zika, further decimates honeybee population

World's most heavily used pesticide set to wipe bees off the face of the earth, leading to mass human starvation

EPA continues to ignore the bee extinction epidemic ... could end in collapse of ecosystem

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Study finds pesticides kill bees even below recommended doses

August 19, 2021 -

"Neonicotinoids are often used on food crops as a seed treatment. But they're usually applied in higher amounts to ornamental plants for aesthetic reasons. The effects are deadly no matter how much the plants are watered," explains Jacob Cecala, UCR entomologist and lead study author.

Cecala's team was surprised by this result as neonicotinoids are water-soluble chemicals. Going into the study, he said that he assumed more water could dilute the amount of harm that the ...

Pesticide cocktails found to be more dangerous to bees than expected

August 08, 2021 -

"Interactions between multiple agrochemicals significantly increase bee mortality," the study's lead author, Harry Siviter of the University of Texas at Austin said.

The researchers wanted to know if the stressors impacted key bee behaviors and health in ways that were additive or synergistic. To explain, Siviter shared, "If you have a honeybee colony exposed to one pesticide that kills 10 percent of the bees and another pesticide that kills another 10 percent, ...

Besides causing cancer in humans, Roundup also kills bees

April 28, 2021 -

In addition to causing cancer in humans, Roundup contains so-called "inert" ingredients, none of which are subject to mandatory Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) testing, that researchers found are a death sentence for bees, butterflies and other pollinators.

Glyphosate itself is toxic to bees, and now there are other mystery chemicals being identified in the Roundup formula that are likewise toxic to pollinators, which we need in order to grow food....

Experts warn that undisclosed ingredients in weedkillers can kill bees, even without glyphosate

April 22, 2021 -

Researchers from the Royal Holloway, University of London reviewed several herbicides and found that most of them contained glyphosate, an ingredient best recognized from the cancer-causing weedkiller brand Roundup. Yet interestingly, they found that bees exposed to one of the herbicides without glyphosate died within 24 hours.

Overall, the study shows that even inert ingredients in pesticides, which are not as extensively studied as other pesticide ingredients, ...

Bees' brains more powerful than computers

October 27, 2010 - naturalnews.com printable article

Bees' brains more powerful than computers

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Bees' brains more powerful than computers

October 27, 2010 - Bees' brains more powerful than computers

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