From: The Jerusalem Post
By HAROLD GOLDMEIER
Hebrew University’s Triwaks Bee Research Center, founded in 1976, focuses on bee foraging behavior, secretions and mite control.
Socially responsible investors will want to look at a nascent hive of activity where governments and the private sector are lumbering to save the world food supply threatened by mass crop displacement. The survivability of the tiny, nuisance bee is one key to that monumental task.
July 12, 2013
From: The Inquisitr
Monsanto recently held a Honey Bee Health Summit to address colony collapse disorder. The bee population has decreased drastically around the globe in recent years. The biotech giant acquired Beeologics from an Israeli company in 2011. Monsanto is attempting to convince beekeepers that the GMO seed and pesticide manufacturer wants to be proactive in the fight to save the bees.
Even if you do not like honey or keep bees, the health and population statistics of the little buzzing creatures is still extremely important. Without bees to pollinate crops, the global food supply and human population would quickly perish.
July 10, 2013
Editor’s Note: CRE Brazil is regulatory watchdog located in San Paulo, Brazil. The focus of its operations is to increase the transparency of Brazilian regulatory activities. The following article is from its website, http://cre.org.br/ (Portuguese)
July 8, 2013
Editor’s Note: The video below features Charles Runckel, a graduate student in the DeRisi lab, discussing development and use of a high tech “bee pathogen chip” to find the cause of bee health decline.
From: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The video is available here.
July 5, 2013
From: Kansas City Star
By RICK MONTGOMERY
More than 150 people made a beeline earlier this year to an Independence workshop for beginning beekeepers.
So many, in fact, that Cathy Misko tapped Craigslist to buy 71 extra chairs.
And driving this heightened interest in the well-being of bees? Misko cited a mystery that has vexed scientists since 2006 — a worsening crisis called colony collapse disorder, or CCD.
“It’s like when the town’s on fire and you ring the bell,” said Misko, president of the Midwestern Beekeepers Association. “Everyone comes to help.”
July 3, 2013
Editor’s Note: There are countless articles about the importance of honeybees. Unfortunately, few reporters take the honeybee health seriously enough to get the facts right. For example, in the story below, the author correctly acknowledges the harm to bees from varrora mites, but then makes the incorrect statement that pesticides as well as mites are “decimating the bee population.” As the USDA explained, bee health decline is the result of “a complex set of stressors and pathogens” and that “researchers are increasingly using multi-factorial approaches to studying causes” of bee health problems.
July 1, 2013
From: Agri-Pulse
By Sarah Gonzalez
May Berenbaum of the University of Illinois’ Department of Entomology spoke to Hill staffers recently on the benefits that mapping the bee genome are offering in the investigation of reduced bee populations.
The presentation and discussion ‑ part of National Pollinator Week and hosted by the National Coalition for Food and Agricultural Research’s (C-FAR) Hill Seminars Series last week ‑ addressed the importance of the honey bee species in U.S. agriculture and likely causes of recent widespread declines in its population.
June 28, 2013
From: Western Farm Press
Kathy Keatley Garvey, UC Davis
Honey bees are in trouble. They are dying in record numbers.
That’s why you should watch “Blossom Buddies,” a two-part video segment in the Growing California series, produced by the California Department of Food and Agriculture in partnership with California Grown.
June 26, 2013
From: Pilot Online/The Roanoke Times
By Tonia Moxley
FLOYD, Va.
The bee sounded angry.
But after a few moments, she gave up looking for someone to sting and flew away.
It had not been a good day to open the honey bee hives at Spikenard Farm Honey Bee Sanctuary, said Gunther Hauk, executive director of the organization.
There had been too many clouds and the possibility of rain. Even after the hives had been closed up, one bee remained disturbed.
June 24, 2013
Editor’s Note: Listen to the broadcast of the interview on here.
From: WUNC.org North Carolina Public Radio
By Isaac-Davy Aronson and Frank Stasio
The past year has been a bad one for America’s honeybees, with commercial beekeepers reporting hive losses of up to 50 percent. Some blame the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder; others blame pesticides; and many scientists say we just don’t know.
Host Frank Stasio talks with Dick Rogers, manager of Bayer CropScience’s Bee Care Center under construction in RTP; David Tarpy, associate professor of entomology and extension apiculturist at NC State University; and Jeffrey Lee, owner of Lee’s Bees in Mebane.
June 21, 2013
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