Bees News
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Consider yourself warned: if you start crying on the streets of Thailand, you might just find a swarm of bees landing on your face.
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Entomologists studying the behavior of bees have noted that honey bees seem to know when a hive is infected with fungi and they know which plant resins are able to treat the disease, and at times of threat the bees work hard to protect the hive.
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A pesticide, commonly used since the 1990s, has been shown to affect bee colonies and can potentially lead to the collapse of the entire colony. This news has led to calls for greater pre-approval testing of pesticides.
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Miami -
Bee experts say that around 60,000 bees are living in the walls of a house in Little Havana, Miami, where a teenage girl discovered the body of her father on Saturday. Thousands of bees covered the body.
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The last place most people would think of as a bee-keeper’s paradise is the centre of a great city, least of all the West End of London, but hives can be found all over the capital, including on top of a world famous department store.
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During a ten-month study of healthy honey bees, scientists identified four new viruses and established a baseline for studying bee colony collapse, revealing that all the bacteria and viruses previously linked to the disorder also live in normal colonies.
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A semi-professional soccer match came to a sudden halt this past weekend, after the players were victims of an insect "invasion."
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Hebbronville -
An elderly Texas couple was killed after a swarm of bees attacked them while they sprayed insecticide into an unused fireplace where the bees had built a hive. Also injured was their 67-year-old son, who suffered multiple stings to his head and face.
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Knightdale -
A sheriff’s deputy was trapped inside his car for three hours after it was swarmed with bees. About 50,000 honeybees covered the vehicle on the side of a road in North Carolina.
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The U.S. Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) believes there is a connection between colony collapse disorder of bees and pesticides used in crops. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is refusing to show the documents about this connection.
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Bee Gees 'on a par with The Beatles', songwriters say
Honey bees "dancing" to explain directions to flowers to other bees make more errors due to gravity when performing horizontally, say researchers.
Asian honeybees signal to bee-eating hornets to let them know they have been spotted, according to scientists.
Lori Anne Madison, 6, is youngest ever to qualify for the National Spelling Bee.
 A South Florida family has found as many as 90,000 bees living in their attic.
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A stream ran along one side of this street near its end, with a small bridge culvert underneath where children caught water skippers and found bees along the grass in La Grande, Oregon
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