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To bee or not to bee?

When gardens throughout Los Angelesare full of bloom, we do not like to think that flowers have an agenda. All their colors and fragrances seem to...
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Discriminating Los Angeles bees do their grocery shopping at pincushion flowers.

The oddly protruding stamens of pincushion flower, Scabiosa columbaria, are ideal for bees collecting pollen. To us, they resemble pins stuck into...
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The differences in the fear and phobia of bees

The technical term for the fear of bees is melissophobia. Most often, people who claim they have this phobia, regardless of whether or not they...
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Grimm: Chance to see 'Beeware' episode again

The first season of "Grimm" has ended and Grimmsters around the globe are anxiously waiting for the second season to start in early fall....
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Beekeeping to Practice being Calm and Centered

I AM a keeper of bees. I have been involved with beekeeping off and on for over 20 years. I have kept honeybees and provided homes for mason bees....
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Disappearing honeybees means bad news for agriculture

Starting around 2006, beekeepers began to notice their hives were dwindling. There were no bee bodies surrounding the hives, they were just gone....
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Pesticides proven to be a cause of bee death

Two studies reported in Scienceexamined the relationship between bee deaths, Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) and one of the most widely used crop...
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Part of bee death puzzle solved

A new clue to colony collapse disorder (CCD) in honey bees was reported by researchers from California n the January 3, 2012, issue of PLoS ONE.The...
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Get to know your picky pollinators (native bees)

Native bees – often small, stingless, solitary and unnoticed in the flashier world of stinging honeybees – are quite discriminating...
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To bee or not to bee?

When the garden is full of bloom, we do not like to think that flowers have an agenda. All their colors and fragrances seem to be displayed merely...
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