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| Articles about Bees |
| Review: Burt's Bees Super Shiny Grapefruit & Sugar Beet Shampoo & Conditioner | | 2008-07-10 22:23:45 | |
I am writing a combined review for these two products since I used them together.
Testing duration:
One Month
Product claims:
Shampoo: Grapefruit extract joins forces with highly effective yet gentle cleansers made from coconut and sunflower oils to create a shampoo formula with a rich lather. Meanwhile, sugar beet extract and soy protein penetrate hair follicles to repair and strengthen hair, helping to shield against future damage. The final touch: honey and essential natural oils from o | | By: Pampered & Primped Up | | |
| | The Daily Buzz: The U.S. Housing Slump Is Creating Ghost Towns & Are Cell Phones Wiping Out Our Bees? | | 2008-07-07 12:36:00 | | -The U.S. housing slump is creating huge "ghost towns".-A new strain of West Nile virus is spreading across the United States.-Schoolboys in the U.K. were disciplined for "refusing to pray to Allah".-Politicians were there to open Canada’s largest mosque.-A day of reckoning is coming for America's small banks.-It looks like the economic downturn is even affecting "Sin City" quite severely.-Finally, are cell phones responsible for wiping out our bees?
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| "Nature: Silence of the Bees" is a Riveting TV Documentary | | 2008-06-16 09:45:00 | | “Nature: Silence of the Bees” is a Riveting TV Documentaryby Michael Aaron GallagherRating: 4 and ½ stars (Out of 5 Stars)Not since “An Inconvenient Truth” (2006) and scientific evidence of global warming, has there been such a powerful and clearly identifiable environmental crisis facing humanity. Whitney Johnson - © EBC 2007 Bee on sunflower, Southern France“Nature: Silence of the Bees,” narrated by F. Murray Abraham can only be classified as one of the most compelling and thought-provoking documentaries to air on television this year, addressing an issue that threatens the health, security, and long-term economic stability of our food supply.For those of you who may have slept through biology class, honeybees provide an enormous economic contribution each year (estimated at around $15 Billion). They provide us with honey (which is used in countless foods, including Häagen-Dazs ice cream) as well as wax (used in cosmetics). But most importantly, honeybees pollinate pla | | By: Stay Famous by Michael Aaron Gallagher | | |
| | Burt's Bees Avocado Butter Pre-Shampoo Hair Treatment | | 2008-06-05 16:18:22 | | Testing duration:
I tested Avocado Butter Pre-Shampoo Hair Treatment for 4 weeks using it once a week. I tested it two times with my normal hair care products and two times with the Burt's Bees products.
Product claims:
Perming, coloring and styling can leave your hair looking dry and damaged. This luscious formula combines Avocado and Olive oils to penetrate and replenish natural moisture to your hair and scalp. Rosemary, almond oil and nettle extract condition your hair leaving it soft,.. | | By: Pampered & Primped Up | | |
| | Bees not making a recovery, situation worse | | 2008-05-16 18:04:55 | | Now that spring is here and the state of wintered over bees can be assessed, the news is not good. A survey conducted by the Agricultural Research Service and the Apiary Inspectors of America among beekeepers reported a 36% loss of colonies over the winter, on top of a 17% loss last year. Colony Collapse Disorder continues to make inroads among the bee population. Science Daily.The Buffalo News has an in-depth article on how bees are faring in New York. Honey production fell by 20% to 40% last year, but the real problem is pollination: Up to 70% of what we eat is pollinated by insects. New York beekeepers are experiencing big losses; blueberries and apples are two important crops from New York that may be affected this year.While agricultural specialists in every state are pulling out all the stops to discover the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder, everything from cell phone towers to pesticides, The Organic Consumers Association is taking a more wholistic approach. Causes are p | | By: Michaelann Land | | |
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| Bees to have their own movie | | 2008-05-09 10:00:14 | | Bees are finally getting their own movie! Well, actually, we've had "Killer Bees," "The Savage Bees" and "The Deadly Bees," but nothing about the disappearance of bees until now.I've been meaning to get to an update on bees and I still will, but in the meantime, I found out from the Organic Consumers Association that a movie is nearly completed that focuses on why bees are disappearing and what effect it will have on world food production. You can watch the movie's trailer here:Photo: two bees in a pumpkin flower, Chris HigginsAtom
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| | | Do you know why pollution keeps away bees from pollinating? | | 2008-04-21 08:01:11 | | Prof. Know Why answers for your general knowledge and awareness: Have you noticed lately that insects like bees and butterflies are gradually fading away in your neighborhoods? In a recent study, scientists found out why these wild populations of some pollinators, mainly bees, which need nectar for food, are fading in several areas of the world. Researchers at the University of Virginia have shown that air pollution from power plants and automobiles is wiping out the fragrance of flowers and thus hampering the ability of bees and other pollinating insects to track scent trails to their source. "The scent molecules produced by flowers in a less polluted environment, such as in the 1800s, could travel for roughly 1,000 to 1,200 meters; but in today's polluted environment downwind of major cites, they may travel only 200 to 300 meters," said Jose D. Fuentes, a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and a co-author of the study. "This makes it increa | | By: WHY CORNER | | |
| | 50TH POST:SWARM OF BEES ATTACK IN PEORIA ARIZONA | | 2008-03-05 14:22:00 | | Yesterday in Arizona, a hive of bees attacked a construction worker as he cleared land for later development. The worker, who’s name is being kept private, was removing a pile of rubble from the area when he spotted a bee hive underneath. The hive of bees quickly swooped up and attacked the construction worker, knocking him to the ground. There was an estimated couple thousand bees comparing to the size of the bee hive, all attacking his face and neck. The worker attempted to seize up but coul | | By: THE AC 411 | | |
| | Successful bees | | 2008-02-24 18:52:22 | | A pair of sun-kissed honey bees return to the hive, one a little more successful in bringing home pollen.
I’m not often able to capture two bees in flight this well in the same frame .
Buy a print of this image.
See two bees collide. | | By: Wild Light | | |
| | Rumble: Recommended: The Secret Life of Bees | | 2008-02-10 05:17:25 | | Set in the American South of 1964, the year of the Civil Rights Act and intensifying racial unrest, Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret Life of Bees is a story of coming-of-age, the ability of love to transform our lives and the longing for the universal feminine divine. Kidd describes the power of women coming together creating a sanctuary of true family and home where the wounds of loss and betrayal can heal.Men play a secondary role in the story, often representing violence, aggression, and repression. If not, they are a mere ‘addendum’ to the universal feminity which represents the wit, the good, the mysterious divine warmth and comfort which one also finds back in the life of a bee hive: The queen bee, and all worker bees are female ensuring the survival of the hive. The few male drones just sit around waiting to mate with the queen.The story is told through the eyes and heart of Lily, radiating wit, simplicity, naivety, but also a longing for warmth and love at many different levels | | By: The Road to the Horizon | | |
| | Vanishing of the Bees | | 2008-01-19 12:05:36 | | I’ll be participating in a fundraiser on January 27 (in Los Angeles) for the documentary “The Vanishing of the Bees”, a feature-length documentary about the implications of the world wide honeybee disappearance.
My bee art will be exhibited, and I’m donating part of the sale price to the fundraiser, as well as any print orders mentioning [...] | | By: Wild Light | | |
| | Bees and books | | 2007-10-11 21:06:26 | | Kathe Koja will be signing and reading from her new book, Kissing the Bee (I did the cover art), along with two other writers, this Sunday, October 14th, 2 - 3:30 PM. It is sponsored by the BookBeat in Oak Park, MI, at the Oak Park Public Library.
More info at Kathe’s blog.
Check out this related [...] | | By: Wild Light | | |
| | Electric bees | | 2007-10-08 02:25:01 | | A study in the journal Plant, Cell & Environment suggests that electrostatic forces help enable pollen transfer from flower to bee and bee to flower.
Check out this related post. | | By: Wild Light | | |
| | Bees smother hornets | | 2007-09-21 17:41:23 | | Scientists in France and Greece have described how a ball of honey bees will surround and suffocate invading hornets.
Looks like humans aren’t the only species to come up with innovative and unexpected methods to kill. | | By: Wild Light | | |
| | Bumble Bees in Motion | | 2007-09-07 01:13:00 | | Bumble Bee in Flight - Landing on Rocket FlowerThe First Photos from the new Fujifilm S9600!It's amazing how the best moments for photos seem to appear when you least expect them. Yesterday I was outside as soon as it stopped raining, taking pictures of the flowers & leaves all wet and bristling with dew drops. I got a few good photos which I'll get up here soon, but just as I was leaving I noticed some bees flying around the Pak Choy plants. I snapped some photos at a relatively high shutter speed, not expecting to get much out of them as the bees were moving very quickly. But it seems I had underestimated the new camera. The photos turned out quite well, even after I digitally cropped them to less than half their original size.I've included two of the best bee photos here. The first one (above) shows a bee hovering in the air mid-flight, about to land on a yellow Pak Choy Flower. You can actually see the bee's wings as they flap through the air at top speed.In the second photo ( | | By: David's Nature Photography Gallery | | |
| | When Bees Collide | | 2007-08-28 01:08:59 | | Two bees collide, tumbling through the busy airspace near their hive, a common occurrence considering the frenetic activity of the thousands of bees in and around each nest.
I’ve never seen them get too upset during these collisions, they recover almost instantly and are back on their way. | | By: Wild Light | | |
| | Bumble bees in Britain | | 2007-07-27 07:00:00 | | Britain's gardens are vital habitats for nesting bumblebees, new research has found. The results come from the National Bumblebee Nest Survey, which are published online in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology, and the findings will help conservationists understand and hopefully address the factors responsible for declining bumblebee populations.
During the National Bumblebee Nest Survey, more than 700 volunteers surveyed their own gardens plus one of six different countryside habitats for bumblebee nests. They found that gardens contain the highest densities of bumblebee nests (36 nests per ha), followed by hedgerows, fence lines and woodland edges (20-37 nests/ha). Nest densities were lower in woodland and grassland (11-15 nests/ha). Until now, little has been known about which habitats are best for bumblebee nests. | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | Research on declining wild bees | | 2007-07-13 07:00:00 | | Atlantic farm focusThe decline in the population and health of honey bees in parts of Canada has raised concerns about the impact that decline could have on Atlantic Canada's multi-million dollar wild blueberry crop.
Research by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) shows wild bees are capable of flying to the rescue... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | Pollinating Bees | | 2007-07-13 07:00:00 | | Med IndiaIn their work, Dr. Endress and his colleagues found that the sizes and positioning of the anthers facilitates pollen collection by buzz-pollinating bees. The male floral structures, anthers, release the pollen gradually, like tiny gumball dispensers... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | Floral anthers facilitates pollen collection by bees | | 2007-07-10 07:00:00 | | Nature-scienceUnlike moths and butterflies that are often brilliantly coloured to warn potential predators that they carry toxins, flowers and the fruits they produce have brilliant colours and unusual shapes because they want to attract the attention of pollinators and frugivores who will disperse their pollen and seed, thus guaranteeing the next generation. In their work, Dr Endress and his colleagues found that the sizes and positioning of the anthers facilitates pollen collection by buzz-pollinating bees... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | You Shouldn't Oughta Try N' Pet Bumbly Bees Mom! | | 2007-07-10 06:33:00 | | The other night we decided to catch up on yard work. I had pulled a total of three weeds when I noticed that the two large ferns in our front yard next to the wooden retaining wall had some scruffy fronds that could use trimming. I headed over with my shears. I made a couple of snips and then felt a sharp stab on the back of my left hand through my gardening gloves. I yelped and backed up, looking to see where the blackberry bush was hiding. Another sharp stab - OW, OW, OW!! It wasn't a blackberry bush. I looked down at my hand and there was a yellow jacket industriously jabbing away!I flung him to the ground and ran into the house to get some ice, benadryl and an enzyme paste started. As I was standing at the sink I began dancing around against my will as I was zapped four more times in the low back. I had just dispatched the nasty little hymenopteron to the big bee-hive in the sky, when I felt more jabbing in my right leg. A third one. I saw it fly the other direction as I ran shri | | By: In The Life Of A Child | | |
| | Disappeared Bees from colonies | | 2007-07-08 07:00:00 | | News dayIf the puzzling, nationwide disappearance of honeybees continues, it could affect $100-million worth of crops on Long Island, according to Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and the Long Island Farm Bureau.
Their announcement Thursday came a week after U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns said that the honeybee decline could cost the country up to $90 billion in agricultural losses.
Millions of honeybees have disappeared from 35 states, and the cause of this colony collapse disorder, as it is called, remains a mystery... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | The Modern Version of The Birds & The Bees | | 2007-07-01 05:27:32 | | My Aunt Barbara sent me a bunch of jokes this afternoon - here is one of them for your reading pleasure! If you like it, be sure to leave some feedback below with the “comments” form!
A little boy goes to his father and asks “Daddy, how was I born?” The father answers: “Well, son, [...] | | By: Joe's Journal | | |
| | Bees Benefitting From their Favorite Colors | | 2007-06-25 07:00:00 | | Dental plansA bee's favourite colour can help it to find more food from the flowers in their environment, according to new research from Queen Mary, University of London.
Dr Nigel Raine and Professor Lars Chittka from Queen Mary's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences studied nine bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) colonies from southern Germany, and found that the colonies which favoured purple blooms were more successful foragers... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | | Birds, Bees, and Moths Drive Flower Evolution | | 2007-06-08 07:00:00 | | IaFlowers evolve in a predictable fashion to match the mouthparts of pollinating birds and insects, rather than engaging in a gradual “arms race#148; between flower and pollinator, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis and the University of California, Santa Barbara. An article describing the study is published in the June 7 issue of the journal Nature.
The research builds on work done by Charles Darwin more than 140 years ago.... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | Mystery over missing bees | | 2007-05-18 07:00:00 | | MliveSouthwestern Michigan fruit growers finally caught a break -- near perfect weather for pollination of fruit blossoms.
It couldn't have come in a better year, when a late freeze damaged fruit buds and a mystery ailment is killing the bees needed for pollination... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | Bees are in decline | | 2007-05-17 07:00:00 | | TelegraphBees are in decline and this year's Chelsea Flower Show is full of ideas intended to make gardens a replacement for bee-friendly habitats lost from the countryside.
When it came to a show garden holding 300,000 honeybees in four hives, however, the Royal Horticultural Society was not so sure.
Though Fortnum and Mason's design for a garden with a honeybee theme was declared by the organisers one of the most original in the show's 94-year history, the bees themselves proved a sore point... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | Organic Bees | | 2007-05-08 06:12:21 | | I want to pass on the latest on the bees. An excellent series of articles are making their way around the Internet with another point of view on the Colony Collapse Disorder phenomenon. Sharon Labchuk is an organic beekeeper (and longtime environmental activist) from Canada who has given us all a heads up as to what is really going on with those commercial beekeepers, such as spraying pesticides and forcing them into unnatural sized combs, comparing it to the beef industry. She notes none of the organic beekeepers are reporting losses. Please Lord, not the bees is a great overview of the debate. | | By: Surfing the Tao | | |
| | | Bees and Flowers | | 2007-04-19 07:00:00 | | Aphriza Word PressEcological fieldwork consists of fascinating questions answered with excruciating amounts of work. Take this study, by Brendan Borrell of the University of California, Berkeley.
Orchid bees, we learn, drink nectar by sucking it up through a straw-shaped proboscis. That makes them a breed apart from bumblebees, which lap the stuff up like dogs... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | Orchid bees with long tongues | | 2007-04-17 07:00:00 | | Eurek alertOrchid bees use their extraordinarily long tongues to drink nectar from the deep, tropical flowers only they can access. Researchers have long suspected that this kind of exclusive access came with a mechanical cost.
According to common sense and a classic law of fluid mechanics, it is just plain hard to suck thick, viscous nectars up through a long straw. Now, Brendan Borrell at the University of California, Berkeley has confirmed this prediction for the first time: orchid bees with long tongues suck up their nectars more slowly than bees with shorter tongues.... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | Honey Bees getting destroyed | | 2007-04-14 07:00:00 | | Farm newsHoney bees (genus Apis) are the most economically valuable pollinators of agricultural crops worldwide.
A number of agricultural crops are almost totally dependent on honey bee pollination (90-100%), including almonds, apples, avocados, blueberries, cranberries, cherries, kiwifruit, macadamia nuts, asparagus, broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucumbers, onions, legume seeds, pumpkins, squash, and sunflowers.
Honey bees are dying out at a horrendously fast rate in the US. While it is been called Fall Dwindle Disease by some, others are referring to it as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | Hawaiian Bees are Missing Too | | 2007-04-11 04:55:21 | | Regarding my post yesterday on our neighborhood bees, I just spoke with my neighbor and got an update. Although the beehive in their yard is still buzzing away (behaving strangely, though, he said they are circling in unusual ways for some reason), they have 60 other hives up north on the island, and are confused as to why 20 of them are suddenly gone, just in the past couple of months. Nothing’s left, he said, no queen, nothing; just the cockroaches. He didn’t actually realize it was happening all over the world and I think he was a little stunned. He promises to talk to other island beekeepers to see if it’s happening to anyone else.
Scary.
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| | Missing the Bees | | 2007-04-10 05:14:00 | | I live in Hawaii in a relatively rural place so we are used to seeing things like wild turkeys wandering around our neighborhood. Yesterday a wild goat scampered across the street in front of my car to join its family on the other side. The Big Island has wild pigs, cattle, goats, horses, mongoose, parrots and even donkeys. (Not to digress, but Hawaii even has its own Bigfoot myths – two of my family members have personal stories about that.) In suburban neighborhoods it’s not unusual for people to keep chickens or goats; the best eggs I ever had were from a friend’s backyard. In fact the people across the street from us keep a goat as a lawnmower and have a beehive.
They’ve given us some honey before; it’s wonderful. I used to have a patch of mint that flowered and the bees just took over my garden. One time a few months ago they swarmed, coming right up our driveway next to our porch. We all ran inside, including the dogs, at a loss as to what might have | | By: Surfing the Tao | | |
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