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‘Honey laundering’: An international food-safety crisis

BizzyBee — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 01:52:57 +0000

Before honey ever reaches American breakfasts, it often comes into contact with dangerous additives — and the FDA isn’t doing much about it

What could be more pure and natural than honey, nature’s golden sweetener? Plenty, according to a recent investigation from Food more »

List of crop plants pollinated by bees

BizzyBee — Sat, 14 May 2011 23:16:09 +0000

Pollination by insects is called entomophily. Entomophily is a form of pollination whereby pollen is distributed by insects, particularly bees, Lepidoptera (e.g. butterflies and moths), flies and beetles. Note that honey bees will pollinate many plant species that are not native to areas where more »

The Case of the Mass Honeybee Killer Has a New Prime Suspect

BizzyBee — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:15:59 +0000

Thanks to a joint investigation from academics and the Department of Homeland Security, the culprit in the Case of the Honeybee Killer has been found.

Over the last four years, 20 to 40 percent of the honeybee colonies in the U.S. have mysteriously collapsed. The killer has remained more »

Facts on Honey and Cinnamon

smabusybee — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:30:55 +0000

It is found that a mixture of honey and cinnamon cures most diseases. Honey is produced in most of the countries of the world. Scientists of today also accept honey as a ‘Ram Ban’ (very effective) medicine or all kinds of diseases.

Honey can be more »

Local Honey, Health and Allergies

BizzyBee — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:34:09 +0000

As one who makes his living by writing about allergies and asthma I am often asked about the potential health benefits of using local honey.

Honey contains bits and pieces of pollen and honey, and as an immune system booster, it is quite powerful. I have often more »

Africanized Honeybees

BizzyBee — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:25:25 +0000

An Africanized honeybee is a honeybee hybrid strain, originated in Brazil, that is a cross-breed between a European honeybee and an African honeybee subspecies, apis mellifera scutellata, a.m. adonsonii, or a.m. intermissa. The Africanized honeybee, called the more »

How do I hive my package bees?

Laura Weaver — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:46:12 +0000

Have your hive ready before the package bees arrive. Be sure the hive has been provided with honey or sugar syrup for feed. The entrance of the hive should be reduced to a width of about 2 inches by stuffing grass or newspaper into the entrance slot. Do not close the entrance completely because more »

How do I introduce a queen into an existing colony?

Laura Weaver — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:40:04 +0000

Make sure your hive does not have a queen. Remove the cork from the candy end of the queen cage. Wedge the queen cage between two of the center frames with the screen on the cage exposed downward toward the bottom of the hive so that the bees can access the queen through the screen. The bees must more »

The Honey Bee Life cycle

BizzyBee — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:39:39 +0000

As in a few other types of eusocial bees, a colony generally contains one queen bee, a fertile female; seasonally up to a few thousand more »

List of crop plants pollinated by bees

BizzyBee — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:38:08 +0000

Pollination by insects is called entomophily. Entomophily is a form of pollination whereby pollen is distributed by insects, particularly bees, butterflies, moths, flies and beetles. Note that honey bees will pollinate many plant species that are not native to areas where honey bees occur, and more »