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Show Your Honey you Care with Bees from Oxfam - MarketWatch (press release)

Show Your Honey you Care with Bees from Oxfam
MarketWatch (press release)
Let your loved ones know how sweet you can be by giving honey bees that will help small-scale, rural farmers or donate a dozen chicks that produce eggs, generate income, and improve nutrition for a family. They receive a card explaining the good your ...

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Honeybee Die-Off Shouldn't Sting - NBC Montana

Honeybee Die-Off Shouldn't Sting
NBC Montana
This isn't to minimize the severity of the bee problem here. The die-off is being mainly observed in captive honeybee hives -- the kind commercial beekeepers tote around the country on flatbed trucks, stopping for a few weeks at time to pollinate ...

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Bee Fences - Keeping Elephants Out, Letting High Profits in - AllAfrica.com

Bee Fences - Keeping Elephants Out, Letting High Profits in
AllAfrica.com
Malaika Honey has trained Kasese farmers in all aspects of apiculture - the keeping of bees - as well as facilitating the costs of the pilot fence. Best practices, the use of modern technology, how to harvest honey, and how to produce propolis-a ...

The buzz on bees - High Country News (blog)

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The buzz on bees
High Country News (blog)
"By overwintering them indoors, the bees encounter fewer stressors, especially pesticides. Even if they're not killing them outright, they leave the bees vulnerable,” he said. Entomologist Steve Sheppard, head of WSU's Honey Bee Colony Health ...
We Still Don't Know Why Honeybees Are Dying But They're Hard At Work ...The Consumerist (blog)

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Silence of the honey bee hives - Western Farm Press

Silence of the honey bee hives
Western Farm Press
Not only do honey bees make honey, but one third of what we eat comes from crops and nuts pollinated by them, according to the US Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service. Without honey bees to pollinate, many crops, including the ...