Honey bee News

As summer continues with intensely sunny days and warm moonlit nights, a thoughtful custom that many people in some towns (like Sonoma) do is to provide water set out for pets, along merchant corridors.

Lund - A budding discovery courtesy of research teams at Lund University in Sweeden may open the door to defeating deadly, antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Pullman - With no known remedy to combat the rapid decline in honey bee populations, researchers are attempting to create a honey bee sperm bank to enable genetic crossbreeding that will produce stronger, more resilient bee populations.

Sarnia - The government of Canada has announced that it will provide the Ontario Beekeepers Association a $244,000 investment. The initiative is to create a new plan to respond to the dramatic decline in honey bee colonies.

Geneva - A new report on honey bee and pollinator decline indicates a “sixth major extinction” of biological diversity is currently underway, caused by habitat loss, pollution, pest invasion, and disease, leading to ecosystem havoc vital to human livelihood.

There's lot's left to be learned from these "Little Critters"...

Way to go Honey Bees!!!!... Nice to see nature still providing for us lowly humans... hehehe