Bees

Male Bees Commit Mass Murder To Mate With Females

BBC | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green


The bees enter a frenzy of fighting, and by the time their deadly combat is over, every male bee is either killed or has perished. ...

Meet The White House Honeybees!

nytimes.com | Elisabeth Goodridge | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green


Meet the White House honeybee. Numbering more than 65,000 at one point, the bees produced a bumper crop of honey this year, the first time honey has e...

6 Urban Beekeeping Tips

thedailygreen.com | Kim Flottum | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green


There's a lot happening, Up On The Roof, these days, and keeping a few hives of bees up there fits right in....

Honey Fights Infection-Causing Bacteria

news.nationalgeographic.com | Ker Than | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living


A dark, bitter kind of honey can cripple infection-causing bacteria, including the highly virulent strain known as MRSA, and now researchers think the...

Insect Festival Launches In UK

guardian.co.uk | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green


How Insect Are We? is the title of the symposium that opens Pestival, a three-day festival starting today and running to 6 September to celebrate inse...

Where My Bees At? Five Brothers Rap and Dance To Save The Honey Bees

Joseph Freeman | Posted 09.27.2009 | Green


Joseph Freeman

The dancing in the video is a nod to a ritual of the honeybees, who after returning from a particularly good round of pollinating "dance" directions to the rest of their hive.

To Bee or Not To Bee

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 09.21.2009 | Green


Craig and Marc Kielburger

Looking at our counterparts in the developing world, we'll find that traditional methods of sowing fields and raising bees are both eco-friendly and bee-friendly.

An Apiarian Incident

Alex Henry | Posted 07.30.2009 | New York


Alex Henry

Strolling down Lexington Avenue in the 80s last night, I encountered what appeared to be a crime scene.

The Secret (and Illegal) Life of Bees

Elizabeth O'Neill | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green


Elizabeth O'Neill

A dynamic group of urban-agricultural enthusiasts gathered in New York to celebrate the fourth day of Pollinator Week 2009.

In Which Urban Beekeeping Looks Like A Religous Experience (PHOTO)

Getty/AFP | Posted 07.02.2009 | Green


NEW YORK: An urban beekeeper inspects part of her colony of Italian honeybees on the roof of her Brooklyn building May 30, 2009 in New York City. Beek...

Bees Swarm Nevada Capitol Building

North Lake Tahoe Bonanza | Posted 05.22.2009 | Politics


A swarm of more than 1,000 bees paid visit to the Capitol complex Monday, gathering on a small tree next to the Blaisdel Building. Buildings and Grou...

White House Hit By Swarm Of Bees

CNN Political Ticker | Shawna Shepherd | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics


The Secret Service is always on the alert for aerial assaults -- but on Thursday, White House grounds were hit by one unexpected airborne threat. A s...

Raise Bees In The City, In Your Apartment

Chelsea Green | Posted 03.12.2009 | Green


Each time I have tasted raw, local honey, I have wished that I had my own colony of bees. But I guess everything takes time and we need to pick our pa...

EU To Vote On Honey Bee "Recovery Zones" With Bee-Friendly Flowers

Reuters | Pete Harrison | Posted 12.20.2008 | Green


STRASBOURG, France - Honey bees, whose numbers are falling, must be given flowery "recovery zones" in Europe's farmlands to aid their survival, a lead...

Forget Person Of The Year, Debate The Most Important Species

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 12.15.2008 | Green


If you thought the season for debates and voting had ended, think again! Some folks over in the UK -- specifically, the EarthWatch institute -- are de...

New Drug Is The Bees' Knees for America's Bees

Karin Kloosterman | Posted 10.24.2008 | Green


Karin Kloosterman

America's bee colonies are collapsing. It's a big mystery, with much at stake. Green websites like TreeHugger have been on the case since the phenom...

Are Honeybees Disappearing Forever? "I F**king Hope Not!" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green


Attention Span Media has released a video that takes a humorous look at the disappearing honeybee crisis. The video, Honey Bee Mystery, describes the...

Bees Dying: What Happens To The Economy

The Daily Green | Kim Flottum | Posted 06.13.2008 | Green


People who keep bees commercially keep them to make a living. They take them far and near to fields and farms so the bees can pollinate the crops they...

Warning: This Film May Give You Hives

Kerry Trueman | Posted 06.10.2008 | Entertainment


Kerry Trueman

2008-06-03-Picture5.jpg Basically, the bees are bailing on us. And without their powers of pollination, a wide range of crops, from almonds to zucchinis, could be about to vanish from our lives, along with the bees.

Disappearing Bees Threaten Ice Cream Industry

Guardian | John Sterlicchi | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The collapse of US honeybee colonies this year is set to devastate America's multibillion dollar agriculture and food industries. Last year about 750...