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Save The Bees! 6 Ways to Participate In Honey Bee Awareness Month
Show some love for honey bees in June by participating in Honey Bee Awareness month! To raise awareness for dwindling honey bee populations, Whole Foods Market has designated June as Honey Bee...
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We Speak for the Bees: Activists Sue EPA Over Bee Deaths
A coalition of beekeepers and environmental groups have filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency for its failure to protect pollinators from dangerous pesticides that have...
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9 Sweet Tips to Support Honey Bees (Bonus: Get REAL Honey in the Process)
Honey bees are in trouble all over the world, and making matters worse, the honey at your supermarket may not even be real honey. So, how do you help the honey bees survive and find pure local honey...
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Pesticides To Blame For Thousands Of Dead Bees In Minnesota
Last month, three colonies of bees were found twitching and dying on the ground outside hives across the Minneapolis metro area. This week, an investigation confirmed that fipronil, a widely used...
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Fewer Bees Means More Expensive Almonds
Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is doing more than killing off bees; it’s impacting many parts of the food system. Take almonds for example. Like eating a handful as an afternoon snack? Then get ready...
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EPA Seeks to Save Honey Bee Populations by Funding Major Research
Three U.S. universities have received close to half a million dollars in funding from the EPA to research ways to reduce pesticide use in an effort to protect the nation’s threatened honey bees. “A...
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Honeybees Threatened by Mutating ‘Jumping’ Plant Virus
There’s more bad news for honeybees. Already suffering from the mysterious condition called colony collapse disorder, which is wiping out bee populations around the globe, a virus has been discovered...
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Honey Bees Getting $3 Million to Get Off HFCS and Eat Better
Humans aren’t the only ones consuming a lot of high-fructose corn syrup. The other species? Honey bees. While they’re not downing Big Gulp sodas or snacking on processed chocolate chip cookies, many...
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Preventing Honey Bee Deaths Focus of New White House Task Force
President Obama has made a big move in solving the mystery of honey bee deaths, commonly referred to as colony collapse disorder, with the creation of the Pollinator Health Task Force charged with...
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Honey Bees Get Big Boost from California Almond Growers
Good news for California honey bees that help to pollinate the state’s almond trees. The Almond Board of California has taken up efforts to reduce pesticide exposure, which has been linked with honey...
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Honey Bees Become Addicted to the Pesticides That Are Killing Them, Study Finds
More and more research is showing that honey bees are dying off at least partially as a result of the use of neonicotinoid pesticides. And now a new body of research is showing that these pesticides...
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Must Watch! A Bee’s Life is So Beautiful [Video]
If you haven’t been inspired yet to help protect bees–our important pollinator friends–let this video that details the first six days of a bee’s life motivate you to help protect our bees. Find Jill on...
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EPA Protecting Honey Bees With Major ‘Pesticide-Free Zones’ Across U.S.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce a ruling that will create ‘pesticide-free zones’ aimed at protecting honey bees, which have been severely compromised in recent years....
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Organic Farming Methods Keep Honey Bees Alive, Report Finds
A new report released by The Organic Center reveals organic farming plays a crucial role in supporting thriving honey bees and other crop pollinator species, many of which have been dying off at rapid...
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Federal Court Rules in Favor of Honey Bees, Blocks EPA-Approved Pesticide
Honey bees and other pollinators can breathe a less toxic breath of fresh air after a federal appeals court ruled against the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of sulfoxaflor, a particularly...
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Bumblebees Exposed to Pesticides Linked to Poor Apple Crop Quality, Study Finds
New research builds on growing concerns over the safety for pollinators exposed to a class of pesticides known as neonicotinoids or neonics. The research, published in the journal Nature, was conducted...
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Home Garden Company Ortho Nixes Neonicotinoids to Help Save the Bees
At long last, home garden supply company Ortho (owned by Scotts Miracle-Gro) has announced that it will be taking an important step toward saving the bee population by removing neonicotinoids from its...
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Not so Sweet: Nearly Half of U.S. Honeybee Colonies Disappeared Last Year
Nearly half of all honeybee colonies were lost in the last year in the U.S., according to a recent survey released by the Bee Informed Partnership. The record number of losses correlates to the spread...
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Widespread Honey Bee Death in South Carolina after Aerial Naled Spray
A mass bee death occurred in South Carolina August 28, after parts of Dorchester County were sprayed with Naled by plane. Naled is a common insecticide that kills mosquitoes on contact and is also...
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Cheerios’‘Save the Bees’ Campaign Stings Conservationists With 1.5 Billion...
image via General Mills In just one week, General Mills’ Cheerios brand gave away more than ten times its original goal of 100 million wildflower seeds as part of a promotion to bring awareness to the...
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