Bees are attracted to movement and crushed bees emit a smell that will attract more bees.
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In a world without bees — specifically honey bees, squash bees, bumblebees, and solitary bees — these plants won't be able to develop without their pollination, deemed "essential."
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Honey bees, as well as squash bees, bumblebees, and solitary bees, help bring this fruit to fruition.
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Lots of kinds of bees, including honey bees, squash bees, and bumblebees, can participate in cucumber pollination.
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Bees huddling, zooming, gleaming and anxious, bees rolling along like sailors, bees licking the barley out of one another's beards.
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Are they all males, females, worker bees, or carpenter bees?
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Most of the surveilled insects were bumble bees and honey bees.
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Honey bees, as well as bumblebees and solitary bees pollinate their bushes.
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Honeybees, bumble bees, and solitary bees are all "essential" to pollinating watermelon.
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Why bees are important: Bees are pollinators, which means one third of the food we eat would not be available if it wasn't for bees.
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Wild bees, like bumble bees and alfa leafcutter bees, contributed $9 billion worth of pollination services in 2009, according to a 2014 White House report.
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Niño: Bees that we have that are wild bees, that are native bees, a lot of them actually nest in soil, so leaving bare ground for those bees is really useful if you're redoing your lawn, for example.
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But when bees swarm — and African bees swarm aggressively — hundreds of bees might sting an elephant in its most sensitive areas, the trunk, mouth and eyes.
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Africanized bees are known to be much more aggressive than domestic honey bees.
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"If bees go extinct, it's simple: no bees, no food," added Environment America.
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According to information compiled in the 2007 survey, cashews are greatly reliant on insect pollination — chiefly, honeybees, as well as stingless bees, bumble bees, and solitary bees.
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"They're just honey bees, man, there's a decline in honey bees," Yost told reporters.
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Burt's Bees Lip Balm Burt's Bees has been the "cool" chapstick since, like, 2006.
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Cows eat alfalfa, which bees pollinate, meaning bees have a hand in dairy products.
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They're made with moisturizing bees wax, (thank you bees!) to sooth and restore dry lips.
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Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost loves bees, and the bees seem to love him.
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A 2016 study found that bees can learn and pass on skills to other bees.
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His bees are at their porch right by their home, and she saw dead bees everywhere.
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The "Save the Bees" movement, focused on honey bees, is really an issue of human agriculture.
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Another way bees learned this trick was by hanging around with bees that had already been trained.
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Thanks to science, they will form loosely tied amateur leagues of soccer-playing bees that eventually get super popular only to get bought out by wealthier bees, and exploited for other bees' entertainment.
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Each spring, the queen bees awaken from their burrows in the ground to lay a bunch of eggs; first worker bees then new queens and male bees, according to the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.
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Blueberry pollen is too heavy and sticky to travel by wind, so insect pollinators — chiefly bumble bees and solitary bees, with honey bees used by commercial growers as well — are necessary for pollination.
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A local apiarist told CNN affliate KBZK, 40,000 pounds of bees is equal to around 133 million bees.
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There are many kinds of bees besides honey bees; you can participate in a QUILTING bee as well.
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It's not clear whether Asian elephants react differently to bees because the bees in Asia are less aggressive.
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Adee Honey Farms has some 92,20113 hives, each with roughly 40,000 bees, about 3.5 billion bees in total.
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I guess it's good there are bees here at all, but these are NOT the bees I'm looking for.
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Maybe Monsanto-backed monster GMOs and mutant bees — like the lab-created "killer" bees from Africa — could be next?
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Most types of bees other than honeybees — frequently lumped together as "wild bees," although many species exist — are solitary.
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Still fighting the bees, I jumped into the pond but I could still hear the bees under the water.
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The Proceedings survey deemed that pollination is "essential" for watermelon, which relies on honeybees, bumble bees, and solitary bees.
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We need bees to pollinate our crops, but it's no secret that bees are in danger in North America.
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The bees cannot just wake up one morning, execute the queen bee, and establish a communist dictatorship of worker bees.
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While other bees could potentially pollinate those species, many could become extinct if these bees were to die off entirely.
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Why do these bees seem so much worse than the puttering, vaguely ominous-type bees humans usually have to tolerate?
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"As soon as the healthy bees began clearing the dying bees out of the hives, they became contaminated," Machado said.
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On March 8, Burt's Bees and Michele, 29, will officially kick off the Bring Back The Bees campaign on urtsees.com.
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In the "Why Do Bees Buzz?" example, they might say that bees fly, make a buzzing sound and sting people.
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Populations of bees are declining because of the use of insecticides, he told KTRK, leaving fewer bees to pollinate certain crops.
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Turns out, bees in the cleared plantation had significantly slower metabolisms and ate significantly less than the bees in the woods.
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"We were actually ignorant about bees because you think, bees, they're just hanging around the garden," MacMillan told television network TVNZ.
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But the fact that beekeepers are losing bees in the summer, when bees should be at their healthiest, is quite alarming.
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No, it's not fun killing bees, and I generally don't condone it at all, especially when it comes to honey bees.
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So I buy between 4.8 and six billion bees annually and spend between 153 and 18 million dollars to buy these bees.
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As some of the bees were scooped into the box, hundreds of bees pushed off from the wall, forming a big cloud.
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Because the red bees were city bees, nobody took the sudden change in the color of their honey as a promising development.
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Best about bees: "More Than Honey" The documentary "More Than Honey" (2012) brings the viewer inside the world of bees and beekeepers.
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The tropical macadamia tree relies on honey bees and stingless bees, as well as wasps and butterflies, in order to grow fruit.
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This time of year, as the bees gear back up and forage, each hive could be buzzing with up to 60,000 bees.
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Dr. Pitts-Singer encourages farmers and orchardists to pick the right bees for their region and to get the cleanest bees possible.
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No matter how closely we observe the bees or how much we breach the hive, the dance of the bees remain inscrutable.
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Bees pay more attention when there's potential for punishment Like humans, bees are more likely to make right choices when motivation is high.
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Founded on the principle that honey bees are simply magical, Burt's Bees takes special care in their global beekeeping and honey-harvesting operations.
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It's what happens when worker bees leave the hive, and the queen is left with too few bees to keep the hive thriving.
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Hawaii's yellow-faced bees became endangered in 2016, and they were the first bees to be added to the US Endangered Species list.
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The company also introduced a "bring back the bees" campaign last year to raise awareness about the decline of bees and other pollinators.
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Finally, trained bees were put in colonies and the scientists found the technique spread successfully to a majority of the colony's worker bees.
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The German bees at control sites where there were no insecticide-treated plants were healthier than the bees in the other countries' control groups.
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The film is racking up awards and accolades like bees on flowers — a fitting simile, considering the film discusses the birds and the bees.
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Previous research has shown that neonicotinoid insecticides have a detrimental effect on bees, resulting in impairments to foraging, learning, and memory in worker bees.
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"When we spray a field that we have bees on, it's in my best interest to make sure the bees are OK," he says.
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At the end of the year, I guess around this time, all the female bees start killing the male bees because they become useless.
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Bees rest in their hives at night; however, a failure to protect hives from naled spraying recently killed millions of bees in South Carolina.
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Seven other species of Hawaiian yellow-faced bees became the first bees on the US Fish and Wildlife Service's endangered species list in 2016.
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Another group of bees was then allowed to observe the trained bees pulling the strings - and 60 percent of them successfully learned the skill.
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One page, for example, might be observations made about bees visiting flowers in 19503, originally placed in a portfolio on the behavior of bees.
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The bees got breaks and, y'know, slept and stuff.) It was already pretty cool that bees were able to master this tricky (for them) skill, but what was really remarkable was the bees' ability to pass this knowledge on to the rest of the hive.
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The keeper who helped contain the bees told KPIX he believes the Concord beasts are Africanized killer bees, which explains their apparently ad hominem attacks.
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"This is what's left of Flowertown Bees," one beekeeper says in a Facebook video as she surveys the mounds of dead bees at her apiary.
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"These bees aren't being force-fed, they're just doing what they would normally do," says Jeremy Kerr, who studies bees at the University of Ottawa.
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Swarming bees may look threatening, but beekeepers encourage people not to kill or pester bees if they encounter a swarm — if it's at all possible.
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A company in Argentina is looking into tackling this problem by developing a nutrient-packed formula that is supposed to turn bees into "super bees".
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Under that theory, choosing not to eat honey, or other foods that require the labor of bees, would make sense—if you consider bees animals.
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He decided to go all in on bees, building up his hives, growing bees for sale and using them to pollinate crops and make honey.
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The two types of bees collect pollen differently — honeybees gather pollen only on their legs and blue orchard bees gather it with their abdomens, too.
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The demand for bees in California leads to price increases for popular crops like almonds and avocados, as they rely almost entirely on bees for pollination.
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He records and analyzes the frequencies of his bees, such as the soothing "songs" queen bees chirp to their hives, and uses them in his compositions.
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But that pesticide-dispensing plane happened to fly over uncovered hives of honey bees, and now those bees—more than two million of them—are dead.
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A bee colony generally hosts about 30,000 to 50,000 bees at one time, but when it gets warm, the queens produce a lot of new bees.
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Her pro Dotti combined Burt&aposs Bees Goodness Glows Full Coverage Liquid Makeup in Walnut and Deep Maple with Burt&aposs Bees Complete Nourishment Facial Oil.
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It's a fascinating problem to solve since the bees are constantly moving and because it can also ignore bees that are coming out of the hive.
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And now, she's generating buzz around the Burt's Bees campaign, Bring Back The Bees, which aims to plant 5,000 wildflowers for every #SelflessSelfie social media post.
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Pros: Cheap, easy to install and cleanCons: Kills carpenter bees, which are crucial pollinatorsBuy the Bees N Things Carpenter Bee Trap from Ace Hardware for $21.99
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When the majority of a colony's worker bees disappear and leave behind the queen, baby bees, and lots of food, that's called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).
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Hundreds of people have been killed by these invasive bees, including an Arizona landscaper who died last year after a swarm of 100,000 bees attacked him.
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The bees who had the treat were quicker to go to a door that had an ambiguous color than the bees who didn't get the treat.
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"Using wild bees and managed bees is an insurance policy against honeybee declines," he said, adding that a suite of pollinators also hedges against weather extremes.
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Bees. Bees are cool, and hopefully your friend gets the joke when you gift them this set of delicious flavored honey that satisfies their sweet tooth.
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I intentionally avoided all the games in which bees are completely anthropomorphized or function like a spaceship, and games in which bees play a secondary role.
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One unexpected discovery: DJI Phantom drones can steer elephants away from park boundaries — likely because they sound like a bit like bees, and elephants hate bees.
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Bees provide valuable services: the pollination furnished by various insects in the United States, mostly by bees, has been valued at an estimated $3 billion each year.
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The hotel started the "Broadway Bees" project as part of their green initiative as bees are the main pollinators of flowering plants, including many fruits and vegetables.
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Bees also provide food for some bird species, so if a cataclysmic event sent all our bees into rapture, the aftershocks would ripple up the food chain.
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The reason that bees and people work so well together, according to Flottum, is that beekeepers can take advantage of bees' instinct to hoard honey for winter.
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Noah Wilson-Rich, whose Boston-based The Best Bees Company works with beekeepers in U.S. cities, said urban bees face the same problems as their country cousins, but analysis of honey samples show how healthy city bees can benefit from habitat diversity and a broad range of plant species.
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"We're looking at 500,000 to 600,000 (bees) that have been destroyed out of that environment," Steve Brackmann, who sells beekeeping supplies and queen bees, told CNN affiliate KTRK.
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This past October, seven types of bees once found in abundance in Hawaii became the first bees in the nation to be added to the endangered species list.
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Sadly, the best bees, honey bees (Apis mellifera L.), are dealing with yet another threat to their existence, while wasps just sit back and watch the world burn.
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To check on the health of a colony of bees it is usually necessary to open the hive, a procedure which involves using smoke to pacify the bees.
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"The evidence that bees can learn addition and subtraction in 100 trials shows that the mechanisms of learning in the bees' brain promote rapid learning," Dyer told Gizmodo.
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Although bees can be menacing nuisances for anybody who enjoys the occasional outdoor picnic or whatever, many forget that bees are a crucial part of the food industry.
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He said the hot dog cart bees most likely came from a hive on a hotel rooftop; he said the same about those bees at One Times Square.
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Yet with spring coming earlier, female bees are now emerging sooner and luring the male bees away from the lovelorn orchid, according to a 2014 study from Britain.
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It will come in a parcel about the size of a shoe box that holds 1.5 pounds or so of bees, or roughly 5,000 bees and a queen.
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After bees are given the superfood, the team selects and monitors a group of flowers on a branch for five minutes and counts the number of bees that visit.
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But few studies have looked at the effects of neonicotinoids on the queen bees in particular, who are the mothers of most—if not all—bees in a beehive.
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"One-in-three bites that we eat comes from a plant that has been pollinated either by bats or insects or bees, and our bees need help," she said.
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This isn't the first time bees have been observed making nests out of plastics, but it is the first time bees have been spotted building homes only with plastic.
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The bees were imported to South Australia in 1885 and officials banned the introduction of any other bee species or honey since, making it a sanctuary for Ligurian bees.
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When the bees approached the structure, they were greeted by an array of either blue or yellow shapes (bees have pretty robust color vision to spot nectar-laden flowers).
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At summer's end, those trucks return to Florida, carrying not only bees and honey but also viruses, bacteria, mites, beetles, ants, and fungi the bees picked up along the way.
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Ray Sage, 65, an electrician who keeps his bees on the roof of a Lower East Side community center, strapped two boxes of bees to the rack of his bicycle.
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Mr. Sage said he began keeping bees to help pollinate the many community gardens on the Lower East Side, since bees work within a three-mile radius of their hive.
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"We make people aware of the importance of bees for the conservation of the forest, and also the importance of the forest for the existence of bees," says Villanueva-Gutiérrez.
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"To keep healthy bees, you need a good environment and you need your neighbors to keep healthy bees," Nathalie Steinhauer, the data collection lead on the survey, told USA Today.
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A significant part of the human diet comes from plants pollinated by bees — not just honeybees, but hundreds of species of lesser-known wild bees, many of which are endangered.
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He estimates that he got around 600 stings all over his body, including his ears, mouth and down his throat, from the Africanized honey bees, also known as killer bees.
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Beekeepers found no adult bees in and around the hives, and noted that pests and bees from neighboring hives did not immediately raid the affected hives, as might be expected.
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"To find out that not only do I get to have bees now, but that the whole backyard has been designed to make bees happy — it's just wonderful," Brian says.
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He said that traces of the city's high air pollution had been found in beeswax and the bees themselves, but that the bees still lived longer than their country cousins.
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When most of the bees have been smoked out, the Yao chop down the tree, tolerate the stings of any bees that remain and scoop out the liquid gold within.
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In this isolated subspecies of honey bees from South Africa, female worker bees can escape their queen's control, take over other colonies and reproduce asexually — with no need for males.
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Burt's Bees Natural Acne Solutions Targeted Spot Treatment for Oily Skin, $7.98, available at AmazonAmazon rating: 3.7 stars from 1,100+ reviews Burt's Bees' natural solution to oily skin acne includes
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Bees are helping local beekeepers fight poverty, deforestation, and the negative effects of climate change—a bee-autiful partnership that Dutch photographer Jurre Rompa captures in his series Jungle Bees.
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Mikaila became completely fascinated by bees (easy to do because bees are awesome) and decided to take action when she learned about their rapid and mysterious decline in recent years.
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People talk about the "loss" of bees to colony collapse disorder, and that appears to be the right word: Affected hives aren't full of dead bees, but simply mysteriously empty.
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HONOLULU — Federal authorities on Friday added seven yellow-faced bee species, Hawaii's only native bees, for protection under the Endangered Species Act, a first for any bees in the United States.
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"The good news is that the actions that will help the rusty patched bumble bee and the bees in Hawaii are the same actions that will help all bees," she said.
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Also, making and attaching the electronics to the bees is currently done manually—not a very efficient way to scale to monitor a whole farm with dozens or hundreds of bees.
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The two studies: Scientists looked at three kinds of bees in three European countries and found neonicotinoids harmed honeybees in two of three countries studied, and wild bees in all three.
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Luckily, this year when the bees came to town, Yost got a sweet relief after insisting to Royals VP of communications Mike Swanson that the bees not be killed this year.
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Giving the bees more pollen options can help boost their health, so farmers who plant cover crops and surround their fields with flower borders are giving the bees more to eat.
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Some are poisonous to bees and have been directly linked to their population collapse, so the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned 12 pesticides that are harmful to bees this year.
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Burt's Bees 100% Natural Origin Blush pays special attention to natural ingredients like bamboo, honey, and vitamin E.People always seem surprised when I tell them Burt's Bees makes some great makeup.
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While walking out to her car to retrieve supplies, she passed a bush concealing a huge hive of invasive Africanized bees, which are nicknamed "killer bees" due to their deadly aggression.
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Her life's work, as she sees it, isn't just to keep the bees; it's to help restore balance to the ecosystem around her, and bees are a vital part of that.
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Soon, Whole Foods started carrying Me & the Bees Lemonade.
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" Priestesses to Demeter and Artemis were known as "bees.
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Yet Another Reason Bees Are Screwed: Your Damn AlmondsIt's no secret that bees have been having a really rough time: Just yesterday, the rusty-patched…Read more ReadA group of researchers published the results of their investigation into how bees perceive color today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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That said, the finding is consistent with his own research on adaptive tool use in bees, showing that bees can flexibly cope with challenges they've never encountered before in their evolutionary history.
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Heisenberg's Salon is highlighting the notion, over and over, that we are near the buzzing abyss, as in "The October Bees": The October Bees are gleeful, lacking built impostors to envy & adore.
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For bees, part of the issue is due to colony collapse disorder, a growing but yet-unexplained phenomenon where entire colonies of bees suddenly vanish from the hive, leaving only the queen.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's bees are being stolen and traded by organized crime syndicates seeking to profit from skyrocketing honey prices, police and beekeepers said on Tuesday, proving that bees make money.
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And in another potential threat to bees and other terrifying news, apparently there are Africanized killer bees that have been invading and conquering honey bee hives in Southern California and moving north.
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Past efforts to preserve land for bees and pollinators have doubled the pollinator population and with this new initiative, the cereal giant hopes to bring bees back — and its beloved mascot, too.
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The bees will be fitted with individual coloured number tags, which project leader Professor Lars Chittka says will allow interested citizens to track the bees and even develop their own science projects.
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They found that baby bees can feel the effects of the food contaminated by pesticides brought back by worker bees into the colony, making them poorer at performing tasks later in life.
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This ruse, which scientists call pseudocopulation, works because the orchid tends to bloom during a specific window each spring — shortly after lonely male bees emerge from hibernation but before female bees appear.
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Her life's work, as she sees it, isn't just to keep the bees; it's to help restore balance to the ecosystem around her, and bees are a vital part of that mission.
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The police and the homeowner worked together with a local beekeeper to confine the bees, and by Sunday morning an updated police alert reported a "significantly reduced" number of bees in the area.
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The researchers found that the bees exposed to iprodione by itself or in some combination with other fungicides died at two to three times the rate of the unexposed bees after 10 days.
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Their invention inspects bees as they enter a hive, detects the tell-tale presence of a red spot -- the mite -- on bees, shoots a photo and emails an alert to the bee-keeper.
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The researchers set out "hotels" for solitary wild bees—structures with long, hollow tubes that the bees can build nest in for their young—in the spring and summer of 2017 and 2018.
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I mean, yes, they're technically robotic drones built to look like bees and fulfill their pollination functions, in a near future where colony collapse has led to far fewer bees around the globe.
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Bees have become so scarce in some areas of China that apple and pear farmers are now doing the work of the bees, collecting pollen manually and bringing it from tree to tree.
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All you need is a small, shallow container with an object for the bees to land on while they drink, and the bees can carry drops of water back to feed their colonies.
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Ohrmundt was clued in on the possibility of bees in her walls when she encountered some on the side of her house, but she wasn't prepared for that many freaking bees to emerge.
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Other orders include Diptera (mosquitoes) and Hymenoptera (bees and ants).
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It's not just the bees these lands and waters protect.
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There are roughly 20,000 species of bees in the world.
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"Bees need all the help they can get," he said.
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Inside, rows of dead bees with pins stuck through them.
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Unlike me, Thorp can identify bees in a split second.
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I don't kill bees because the world depends on them.
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It got me into the better categories of spelling bees.
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And it's better than a pitch invasion of, say, bees.
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In other words, wild bees are valuable for our crops.
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Is he drowning in a swarm of Horror Story bees?
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Bees are endangered now, so there is a tragic aspect.
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He did not pitch for the Bees during that period.
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Melittology is a branch of entomology that studies bees, specifically.
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That's right, she's deathly afraid of clowns, heights, and bees.
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I wrote this GREAT joke about bees getting yeast infections.
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Everyone. Back in my day… I use to catch bees.
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Varroa mites are a nightmare for bees and their keepers.
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Entomologist Hollis Woodard studies bees in order to save them.
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Even bees exhibit a learning curve when learning new tasks.
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Honey bees are arguably our most important commercially available pollinator.
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REPORTER: Bees play a major role in the food chain.
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Now, what impetus would bees have to be ICP fans?
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If not, these bees are probably far away from you!
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It's probably Burt's Bees because it's the most organic one.
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Read MoreWhat almond growers want this year: Rain and bees
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This news represents an important step for bees in general.
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A massive swarm of bees invaded the South Africa vs.
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Protected by the bees, farmers can tend their crops again.
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Burt's Bees Baby Hooded Towels, Absorbent Knit Terry, $24.99; amazon.
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Then they were accused of wiping out the world's bees.
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What the bees get out of it, though, remains mysterious.
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"Tomatoes, squash, watermelons, bees pollinate those," he told the outlet.
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But what is clear is that bees are in trouble.
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A single commercial hive can contain upwards of 100,000 bees.
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Technology also plays a huge role in spelling bees today.
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That brings us to the unappreciated danger of dead bees.
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Wait, aren't bees like, missing in parts of the country?
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Ms. Wang was soon surrounded by bees and repeatedly stung.
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Africanized bees are a hybrid of African and European honeybees.
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The bees in the experiment were raised in the laboratory.
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After the summer of 2010, she gave her bees away.
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But bees aren't the only insects disappearing in unprecedented numbers.
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This is what the world would look like without bees.
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So dairy would become more expensive without bees as well.
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Burt's Bees has been the "cool" chapstick since, like, 2006.
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We all have a vested interest in saving the bees.
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Their diet is the ROYAL JELLY secreted by worker bees.
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Bees pollinate more than a third of the world's crops.
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Then they rinse them and wash the bees in ethanol.
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Other insects caught included aphids, ants, wasps, bees, and moths.
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Farmers there need many bees to pollinate their almond groves.
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Pollinating fruit trees is a job best done by bees.
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He came to the realization that the bees were parasitized.
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I actually did some bees at the weekend as well.
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Bees have also been crucial in their role as pollinators.
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I also like the Burt's Bees towelettes for removing makeup.
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And the Needler had the exploding swarm of bees thing.
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No bees to pollinate apple, cherry, peach, or almond trees.
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"That draws ever more bees to the honey," Leong said.
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How did you decide that he would come across bees?
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Varroa leaves bees in a zombie state, unable to navigate.
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Traynor's shy, studied demeanor shifts at the mention of bees.
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Presumably some of the plants were pollinated by Villalonga's bees.
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There's a complicated relationship between climate change, coffee, and bees.
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Researchers train bees like they train many animals: with food.
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With this simple process, you can start teaching bees rules.
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You gave a talk about the birds and the bees.
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My hope was to learn about the threats to bees.
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But some people become captivated just by watching the bees.
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In some European cities, though, bees are faring relatively well.
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Researchers say bees understand the concept of nothing, or zero.
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Mikaila says she now has goals beyond Me & the Bees.
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There are diamanté spiders, and gold bees with human faces.
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They then sprayed the bees with Co2 and foam extinguishers.
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Burt's Bees Hand Cream Trio Holiday Gift Set, $12.99; amazon.
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Beyond honey production, how do bees enhance our travel experience?
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The way we keep bees at Miraval is beyond organic.
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The A List revolves around the clash of queen bees.
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Va.), Bristol Pirates (Va.), Burlington Bees (Iowa), Burlington Royals (N.
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Like the bees, we live by the reports of others.
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Each airport is now home to about 300,000 honey bees.
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It took Lauriano 45 minutes to carefully vacuum the bees.
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Do yourself a favor and try Bad Balls and Bees.
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Also, the bees were only adding or subtracting by 1.
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But some may question whether bees are capable of suffering in the same way as animals, while others may wonder whether bees are self-aware -- whether they have a desire to continue to live.
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It was a barrage that paused for a breather with an older song, "Bees," which has a slow-strummed, zitherlike sample and long-breathed vocals (although the lyrics are about bees on the attack).
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A team of Australian researchers found that bees buzzing around biodiverse, wooded areas had higher metabolic rates, meaning their little furry bodies were performing life-sustaining functions faster than bees in a deforested landscape.
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Here's some beauty news that has us buzzing: Just in time for Earth Month, Burt's Bees is relaunching its "Bring Back the Bees" initiative with two environmentally-conscious actresses: Troian Bellisario and Taylor Schilling.
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Unlike a natural swarm, in which a large group of worker bees leave with their queen to form a new colony, CCD involves bees suddenly disappearing for no obvious reason, leaving their queen behind.
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To minimize hazard to bees, it is recommended that the product is not applied more than two hours after sunrise or two hours before sunset, limiting application to times when bees are least active.
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Control bees never quite figured it out: Overall, the bees picked up the skill effortlessly, and even showed some ingenuity in how they solved the puzzle—something that's never been shown in insects before.
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As a final step, scientists reintroduced the string-pulling bees back into regular colonies, where the knowledge that pulling a string could equal food eventually propagated among the majority of the colony's worker bees.
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Beekeeping is one of those ancient professions that likely pre-date recorded history and it's still difficult to find statistics on the percentage of domesticated bees versus the number of bees in the wild.
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Via sleeper-hit documentaries like 2009's Vanishing of the Bees, which followed apiarists as they struggled to prove that something had gone terribly wrong, public awareness of the plight of the bees rose.
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These include susceptibility to pathogen infestation in bees that can cause hive collapse, and recent evidence has demonstrated that dozens of pesticides are already present in the hives of bees, which are declining worldwide.
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If you're really committed to saving the bees, you could rip up your traditional turf and plant a "bee lawn," in which flowers, weeds and grass grow together to attract bees and other insects.
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Ms. Fey based her movie on Rosalind Wiseman's 2002 book "Queen Bees & Wannabes," a survey of adolescent girl culture that sorted young women into categories like Queen Bees, Sidekicks, Targets, Torn Bystanders and Floaters.
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To safeguard his bees, Mr. Adee's employees lay a pad made of yeast, sugar and other nutrients under the lid of a hive to give the bees something to eat before the trees bloom.
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We're installing an owl box and a bee garden in our backyard, because it turns out that native bees and crop bees can support each other, and besides, flowers are a source of joy.
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The results, published in the journal Nature Communications, found that bees foraging on treated oilseed rape were three times more likely to experience population declines than bees foraging from other crops or wild plants.
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If you ask bee experts why we should worry about all those honeybees and wild bees that are famously dying off, they'll often give a simple answer: because bees pollinate so many of our crops.
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After news of the bees spread throughout the city's media hive mind, the New York Police Department roped off part of the street, then began to suck the bees up with a special bee vacuum.
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In this way, stingless bees are helping sustain Mayan beekeepers with the sale of honey, and the Mayan beekeepers are helping sustain not only stingless bees but also the ecological integrity of the Yucatan Peninsula.
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The new study expanded on the dangers of the pesticides for males, finding that bees subjected to the two chemicals had 39 percent fewer living sperm on average than bees that had not been exposed.
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In one particular episode featuring a segment on giant honey bees, Attenborough dons a bee suit and hoists himself high into a treetop in Malaysia to witness this behavior in Asiatic honey bees (Apis cerana).
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Lars Chittka, at Queen Mary University of London, who has explored the capacity of bees to learn and manipulate tools, said the bees showed comparable ability to primates on the tasks the researchers set them.
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Climate change may also be shrinking the bees' habitat, because of drought, rising temperatures, more storms and mismatches in timing: Plants may start to flower at times when the bees are not ready to pollinate.
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But the most important thing I have on is my bee ring from Sangre de mi Sangre, which means a lot to me because the bees are dying, and if the bees die, we die.
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Though it took longer, bees that went out foraging with trained bees eventually caught on to how their buddy was accessing the trapped nectar, and would be able to solve the puzzle on their own.
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For her latest maternity shoot, Emily didn't only stick with bees.
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Bees are enemies that no amount of collective defence can discourage.
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"The real status of the bees is still unknown," said Wyman.
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We've just introduced bees into space to help with the pollination.
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Bees have been losing their flower-rich homes in recent decades.
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Both she and her granddaughter were were stung by rogue bees.
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That is, after the bees warm up from their chilly nap.
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Bees are not something you want to make a mistake around.
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The race is on to keep Hawaii's native bees from vanishing.
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Bees "pollinate a third of everything that we eat," Allen says.
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Except that it had a bunch of bees buzzing around inside.
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Beeologics' president, Eyal Ben-Chanoch, didn't actually know much about bees.
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You've got Queen Bees and Wannabes, Raising Ophelia, all those books.
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"Bees are worth literally billions of dollars," Brad Plumer has explained.
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Japan has a complex relationship with the birds and the bees.
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No one is sure where the bees started their commute, though.
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Burt&aposs Bees Baby has stepped up the infant style game!
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A year ago, MIT professor Kevin Slavin knew nothing about bees.
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Image; Eijiro MiyakoThe bees are dying globally at an alarming rate.
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Simply put, the bees are dying globally at an alarming rate!
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From one side, it looks like a honeycomb for robot bees.
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Though some wanted to "get rid" of the bees, Tech. Sgt.
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It's the usual — people talk about bees, recycling, and climate goals.
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It seems that just like bees, Amazon can sense your fear.
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Last year, also in June, the bees took over Times Square.
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Humans may complain about Midtown, but bees apparently can't get enough.
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He has kept bees before, but maybe just for tax purposes?
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Burt's Bees Complete Nourishment Facial Oil Anti-Aging Oil, $17.04; walmart.
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Burt's Bees 100% Natural All Aglow Lip & Cheek Stick, $9.43; walmart.
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Effects of the spray were felt by the bees almost instantly.
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The bees then associate the scent of the chemicals with food.
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Any harm (helpful, iconic) bees caused me was probably my fault.
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In the process it transmits pathogens and suppresses bees' immune response.
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Honey bees also are exposed to viruses, bacterial diseases, and fungi.
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Growers can support bees by planting these species near their crops.
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The bees, as you've probably heard, are dying, in massive numbers.
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No longer will bees waste away pollinating crap and making honey.
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Then scout bees go out and look for a permanent location.
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Has anyone ever tried to claim a giant swarm of bees?
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Pence's bees aren't the only hive buzzing in the Trump administration.
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Jurre Rompa captured the bee-autiful partnership between bees and beekeepers.
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With bees beset on all fronts, the situation is pretty grim.
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"If the situation continues, colonies of bees will die," he said.
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When the bees survive, "I know I will survive", he said.
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"Now you know where bees get their buzz from," Macaulay jokes.
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All the major world religions have sacred passages that mention bees.
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Bees have been caught cheating on their all-natural diets before.
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Ali told us to float like butterflies and sting like bees.
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But there is one innovative new way of protecting domesticated bees.
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This is exactly how you can be stung by dead bees.
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Any widespread threat to bees also constitutes a greater ecological threat.
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Mounting the Bees N Things Carpenter Bee Trap is a cinch.
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Queen bees exist, but they're far less common than we think.
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The world has other pollinators, of course, but bees are best.
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Save the bees, and save some treats for your good boy!
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"Buying organic has a direct impact on the bees," she said.
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Apples are chiefly pollinated by honeybees and blue mason orchard bees.
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Bumblebees, mining bees, and more than 100 other kinds pollinate blueberries.
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Bees pollinate cashew trees, with help from moths and fruit bats.
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Bumblebees are the only bees that live in the high Arctic.
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First the bee dressers wash the bees with soap and water.
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The bees will wait for you to come up for air.
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"Our native bees are what provide pollination everywhere else," said Riley.
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We feel that the Yankees and Bees belong to St. Petersburg.
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What's with the pics of the bees and the hazmat suits?
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My bosses have kept honey bees on the roof for years.
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Africanized bees now occupy an enormous swath of the American southwest.
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Read: How Bees Save the Global Economy $150 Billion a Year
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Jason described the Needler as firing a swarm of exploding bees.
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In some clips, the subjects look like choreographed swarms of bees.
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And when they fed the bees the tree's nectar, they survived.
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"All beekeepers are having trouble keeping their bees alive," she said.
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But the reality for beekeepers and bees is much more grave.
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Maybe they spend all that extra time studying for spelling bees?
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Termites evolved eusociality long before other insects like ants and bees.
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You might be watching a community of nuns or worker bees.
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First, it's crucial to zero in on what "killing bees" means.
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There have been marathon spelling bees before, but never like this.
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Like the birds and the bees, she's part of my life.
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" I sometimes call it "the birds, the bees, and the beats.
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Bees make decisions as a group, sort of a collective consciousness.
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Q&A Grapefruit trees need light, bees — and a temperature gradient.
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His supplier, Jim Watts of Watts Solitary Bees in Bothell, Wash.
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It seems, at first, an idyllic setting: Think Yaddo with bees.
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Bees do little dances for one another that communicate detailed topographies.
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Make a bee bath Like any living thing, bees need water.
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Most researchers have focused on the survival of the bees themselves.
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Some biologists have suggested that cities may provide refuge for bees.
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Burt's Bees Naturally Nurtured Face Care Holiday Gift Set, $14.99; amazon.
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Only bees on foraging duty actually go out and drink nectar.
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When they hunt for bees they select only the stingless ones.
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"Around 1,000 to 1,200 bees died every four days," Wasniowski says.
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The bees also didn't behave as the researchers expected them to.
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Rather, it's bees that should be what everyone is scared of.
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SOUTH CAROLINA: "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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In many regions, important pollinators, like native bees, are in decline.
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This research says bees can be taught to add and subtract.
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The wee brains of bees pack more power than you'd think.
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Coins come up a lot, as do bees and petty theft.
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Yep, those are bees smothering a man in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
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The artists float from workstation to workstation likes bees pollinating flowers.
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Burt's Bees All-Natural Herbal Insect Repellent, $8.29, available at Amazon.
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Lars Chittka, PhD, MSc Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology, Berlin Institute for Advanced Study [Bees] don't—to our knowledge, there is no individual recognition in bees (but there is recognition of colony membership by scent).
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We've reported that it's been a tough few years for American bees with the threat of colony collapse disorder; at this point we've probably all seen a "bees are dying globally at an alarming rate" meme.
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We hope to help improve that process by understanding which seminal fluid proteins from male honey bees (drones) cause specific post-mating changes in queens, such as triggering egg-laying or contributing to queen bees' longevity.
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The bees at the residence are housed in triple-deep "Langstroth" beehives, which are made up of stacked, wooden boxes with frames inside that the bees can build honeycomb on and the beekeepers can easily remove.
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Colony collapse disorder—CCD—is complicated, and there are different theories, but most point to a multi-faceted cocktail that migratory bees (bees living off a semi-truck to pollinate large crop fields) get fed daily.
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Along with other dangers facing bees, like pesticides and the loss of forage lands, the viruses these mites carry threaten the bees we rely on to pollinate many of the fruits, nuts and vegetables we eat.
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Thousands of bees swarmed part of Times Square on Tuesday afternoon, sending tourists and passers-by scrambling before the bees settled on the cart of a very unhappy hot-dog vendor at 43rd Street and Broadway.
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When Dr Dötterl and Ms Heiduk caught some foraging bees, stuck them in test tubes and poked them with the tip of a glass pipette to mimic a spider attack, the bees produced exactly these four compounds.
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We can't help but notice that celebrities have been super into bees lately, from Lea Michele's Burt's Bees endorsement to Gwyneth Paltrow's controversial confession that she uses the insects for their ancient anti-inflammatory, anti-aging benefits.
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You could help a beekeeper with the cost of replacing bees through a sponsorship, or you could get into beekeeping yourself—anything to ward off a future where crops are failing and killer bees terrorize the Earth.
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Even if you are into bee sting therapy, which is a real thing Gwyneth Paltrow has endorsed, you probably want to get stung by some kind of special bees, not these random bees hanging out in Manhattan.
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When the scientists exposed bees to the Roundup ingredient, the bees' healthy bacteria decreased, disrupting their microbiome—a mini-ecosystem of gut microbes responsible for all manner of tasks, such as blocking pathogenic invaders and processing food.
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Bees, like humans, can't lead healthy lives consuming just one type of food, so as more farms grow miles and miles of a single crop, bees have to fly too far to get the nutrition they need.
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Each is additionally adorned with three bees against a blue background, the Barberini coat of arms (a symbol of industry and success that has a curious iteration on some of the borders, with bees working a plow).
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The yellow-faced bees pollinate some of Hawaii's endangered native plant species.
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The vehicle had been completely taken over by a swarm of bees.
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When they do address the birds and the bees, it's national news.
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Researchers in Vietnam try to address the bees' needs to promote pollination.
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You've heard of weather or traffic causing delays, but what about bees?
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Bees will do anything for their queen — even sacrifice their own lives.
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Letting your mother get stung by bees is not a good gift.
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I also have Burt's Bees Tinted Lip Balm in Red Dahlia ($5).
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Her other credits include Love & Basketball and The Secret Life of Bees.
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And bees can be trained to recognize images of individual human faces.
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But many pollinators are under threat, particularly insects like bees and butterflies.
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Pollinating insects in general, and bees in particular, are falling in numbers.
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There are two types of bugs I'll never kill: spiders and bees.
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Bees and flowers evolved together in a gorgeous spiral of mutual dependence.
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The conclusion does not bode well for folks worried about the bees.
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Naturally, the honey gathered by urban bees is apt for human consumption.
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Honeybees, native solitary bees, flies, and butterflies flit about pollinating apple blossoms.
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She didn't protect the bees because she didn't know about the spraying.
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At the same time, bees and pollinators are affected by aerial spraying.
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ET Okay, here is what's going on with the whole bees thing.
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Few television queen bees are as iconic as Gossip Girl's Blair Waldorf.
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Bees can demonstrate the direction and distance of a source of food.
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Bees aren't the only pollinators, but they pollinate the majority of crops.
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Some were predictable one-offs, such as chickens, honey bees and rice.
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But bees haven't ever been a part of the conversation until now.
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You've probably heard by now that bees are dying in record numbers.
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Strogolov will test for dicamba and other pesticides in the bees' guts.
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For these foods we can thank bees and their extraordinary pollinating powers.
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Pollination by bees is important to keep genes mixing in plant lines.
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Burt's Bees 100% Natural Moisturizing Lip Balm Pack of 4, $9.57; walmart.
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MacPhail wants the Canadian government to take action to protect the bees.
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It doesn't make any sense for me to panic and kill bees.
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The harsh conditions of the desert hold advantages for bees as well.
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The product stemmed from a family recipe and her love for bees.
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Tony Bees, would don protective gear and corral them around the city.
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Pollinator gardens attract and support the bees by providing food and habitat.
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Unions are now, also, dying at a rate more alarming than bees.
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The observing bees don't see the dance — they hear and feel it.
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That's because residents have finally figured out what repels elephants: honey bees.
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You can check out everything Burt's Bees Baby has to offer here.
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Burt's Bees Baby Unisex Sleep & Play, Organic One-Piece Romper, $13.95; amazon.
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Burt's Bees Baby Swaddles, Muslin Cotton Baby Blankets, 3-Pack, $34.95; amazon.
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It had bees and dirt—Georgian white sand—on top of it.
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The question was how the bees' preference played into the plants' evolution.
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What do the birds and the bees understand that we do not?
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I wanted to comment and say that in fact, bees do feel.
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He refuses to acknowledge his mistake, and her bees are all killed.
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"We are the worker bees churning out the songs," Ms. Lewis said.
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Many bees tend to stay back and protect the hive, Bommarito said.
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She said that as pesticides attack their nervous system, bees get confused.
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That seems to come naturally to these bumble bees, Mr. Russell said.
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A honeycomb motif gives the impression the interior was designed by bees.
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Burt's Bees or Carmex lip balm and Glossier Cloud Paint will do.
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Replace it with native plants that help feed hummingbirds, bees and butterflies.
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Colony collapse disorder is one of the biggest threats facing bees today.
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New viruses and a new fungal gut parasite are killing bees worldwide.
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Overall, losing bees would lead to much higher levels of food insecurity.
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Pesticides like neonicotinoids can also kill bees in droves, causing colony collapses.
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Like all Burt's Bees products, the blushes are packaged using recycled materials.
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It's almost entirely reliant on pollinators, which includes bees among other insects.
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Firefighters then used a hose to blast the bees away with water.
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And, the disappearance of bees could happen sooner than you might expect.
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When he stopped to get something to eat, the bees broke out.
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Salum Ali Makame, surrounded by bees, lowers a hive to the ground.
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"The beekeepers have a lot of respect for the bees," Rompa says.
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When a honey bees stings, it leaves its stinger in the skin.
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He climbed the fence in center — to avoid a swarm of bees.
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Queen bees are particularly threatened, which means lower reproductive rates for colonies.
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Read This Next: What Would Happen if All the Bees Died Tomorrow?
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The human race has always had a rather complicated relationship with bees.
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In doing so, bees become weak, docile, and unable to protect themselves.
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Well, the first thing we do is bring bees to the people.
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How is Bee Local's honey-making process sustainable and healthy for bees?
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But for Sara Mapelli, dancing with bees is a form of healing.
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The man is no novice when it comes to honey or bees.
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There was just one small obstacle—his father is allergic to bees.
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In the earlier experiment, the bees had most likely died of starvation.
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It's a win for farmers, bees and dogs in need of rescue.
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The sun beckoned the blossoms, and the blossoms begged for the bees.
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What do we do to feed our bees when there's no forage?
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Among non-domestic animals, bees, wasps and hornets present the greatest danger.
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Somehow, though, elephants may outsmart the bees and figure out a workaround.
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"The Secret Life of Bees" avoids that trap only in its songs.
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Unlike vaccinations for humans, the one for bees does not involve needles.
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"We are going on this vacation, and there are bees," I said.
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When the bees get closer to flowers, smell receptors begin transmitting information.
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Dancing bees also make group decisions about the future of the colony.
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But the democracy of bees contains plenty of good lessons in civics.
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About 600,000 bees were dead, according to the Brazoria County Beekeepers Association.
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By diversifying your bees, you'll get way more consistent pollination over time.
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What would it mean if bees could understand the concept of nothing?
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Bees trained to land on the display with more shapes did not.
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Here are some small changes you can make to keep bees healthy.
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Bees general manager Kim Parker isn't sure if that story is true.
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Parker's father spent 17 years as the Bees general manager before her.
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P&G owns natural brands Burt's Bees Purely White and Native Toothpaste.
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We let the bees make important decisions rather than imposing a structure.
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Mr. Adee's bees work alongside their boss, who is working the phones.
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Some of the insects pictured above are bees, and some are not.
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Sadly, bees are having a hard time adapting to a warming world.
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The bees learned best by watching a fellow bee perform the feat.
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He's familiar with each nook and canal, and he even raises bees.
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She also makes honey from the farm's own bees, and soaps, too.
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Featured Article: "Sneezing Dogs, Dancing Bees: How Animals Vote" by Elizabeth Preston.
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Just steer clear of the swarm of angry bees if you can.
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"I feel the question of whether bees understand the concept of zero, and even the absence of information, is still wide open and ripe for investigation, for which bees and other social insects are excellent subjects," said Perry.
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Juan Carlos Noguez Ortiz from the Dickey Bee Honey Farm broke the world record for longest time with a swarm of bees on your head—with 100,000 bees completely overtaking his head and chest—capping at 61 minutes.
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To create her ethereal makeup look, Greenberg used CoverFX and Burt's Bees products, applying a shimmery pink Cover FX eye shadow on her lids, tons of lashes, and Burt's Bees Liquid Lipstick in Niagara Nude on her lips.
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Sting in the tail Founded on the doctoral research of Oxford DPhil Lucy King, the Elephants and Bees Project, part of Save the Elephants, utilizes the knowledge that the world's largest land animal is extremely averse to bees.
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Me & the Bees Lemonade recently launched a new line of beeswax-infused lip balms and, separately, in 2017, Ulmer launched her own non-profit — The Healthy Hive Foundation — to conduct research, education and protection projects for honey bees.
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His system, which uses a Raspberry Pi and a machine learning algorithm that recognizes the number of individual bees entering a hive, is used to see bee trends over time and see just how the bees are faring.
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To investigate, he and his colleagues grew both healthy and infected tomatoes in a greenhouse with no bees, and a similar mixture in a greenhouse into which bees were released one at a time, and their movements tracked.
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Bees in part attracted such laurels because of their mysteriousness: It was difficult for ancient cultures to quite understand how bees did what they did, and myths abounded, like Virgil's idea that they hatched spontaneously from sacrificed bullocks.
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There was that brief period in the late 70s, early 80s where America was simultaneously concerned with cloned Nazis living in South America and killer bees, and that ends up creating Swarm, the man made of Nazi bees.
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Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents Nectar: War Upon the Bees, a visual essay centered on the way that disregard for bees and the "faster, bigger, cheaper" approach to modern food production is leading to severe consequences for human survival.
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Lori Ann Burd with the Center for Biological Diversity, which also sued over EPA's decision, said pesticides like sulfoxaflor are dangerous to bees because they attack the nervous system, causing bees to get confused and diminishing their appetite.
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Bees and marijuana A different group of researchers from New York recently found that cannabis crops are also proving beneficial to declining bee populations -- specifically, large numbers of 16 different species of bees thriving among recently-planted cannabis plants.
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More than $15 billion a year in US crops are pollinated by bees.
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What's good: Organic farms provide higher biodiversity, hosting more bees, birds and butterflies.
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Bees play a critical role by pollinating 35% of the world's food supply.
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Researchers used to stand over colonies, laboriously tracking the behavior of individual bees.
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It's full of things that bees like: propolis, royal jelly, and manuka honey.
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For strict vegans this means avoiding honey because of the exploitation of bees.
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Transporting bees to pollinate crops appears to negatively affect their health and lifespan.
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This deep-green, sateen duvet set is sweetly embroidered with tiny bumble bees.
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But can bees really do as good of a job as pesticide sprayers?
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It doesn't help that media depicted both wasps and bees in its coverage.
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The bees chose the blank page 60 to 70 percent of the time.
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Bees, however, are likely in second place, via anaphylactic shock among susceptible people.
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Eventually, the bees will be able to compile information about an entire farm.
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When they arrived at the scene, they found the woman engulfed in bees.
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There are a number of reasons for the crash of pollinators bees worldwide.
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One study found traces of 118 different pesticides in pollen, beeswax, and bees.
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As Harry looks into the sky, a swarm of bees descend onto him.
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The bees clung to the walls I'd painted the color of dried palm.
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Colder temperatures can prevent bees from performing at their best during that time.
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There are people on the internet who sting themselves with bees on purpose.
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The cloud of bees was gone, and so was the crowd of humans.
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Although we'll be busy bees this September, Cupid has not abandoned the scene.
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Dead bumble bees lie on a footpath under a lime tree, July 18.
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The last bees and butterflies of the season hover over goldenrod and asters.
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Nectar and pollen feed the bees; in return, the plants get to procreate.
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Could working from home help the birds and the bees, ahem, get busier?
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In Myanmar similar concerns mean schools barely cover the birds and the bees.
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As the full shadow of the moon covered up sunlight, bees stopped buzzing.
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Research suggests that pesticides are indeed harmful, but don't hurt all bees equally.
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What's being lost is the native bees' important role in the local ecosystem.
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Just the sound of the bees buzzing puts the elephants on the run.
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Also, don't be a shitty person and, for heaven's sake, protect the bees.
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Obviously if you're allergic to bees you shouldn't do any of the above.
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Safe to say that those bees are buzzing about some serious Oscars contention.
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Burt's Bees has also created a social initiative to get bee lovers involved.
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Bees have two main compound eyes that directly observe the flowers they're targeting.
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They also carry a virus that affects bees' development, deforming the insects' wings.
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This messy and time-consuming process involves alcohol washing bees to separate Varroa.
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Sunday, and all of my bees were out, doing their work by then.
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Long believed to be bird poo, they found that it is bees wax.
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That said, sometimes bees swarm in a place that is inconvenient for people.
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In 2009, Michelle helped to introduce over 35,000 bees to the White House.
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There are 29 other species of bees on the list with differing statuses.
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Varroa feeds on hemolymph (the insect "blood") of adult and developing honey bees.
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Americans who can neither be "energized as worker bees," nor relied upon to
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Bees and hives have been central to the advertising of the new season.
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"Bees are in serious trouble," the Center for Biological Diversity said in 2017.
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Maybe it had something to do with the 80,000 bees inside a wall.
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But we have never once been able to get bees to play soccer.
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Perhaps, when you're a friend to the bees, a swarm is good luck.
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Where do the bees go after they get sucked into the bee-vac?
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Thankfully, we don't have to watch the worst birds-and-bees talk ever.
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That's right, people get stung by bees on purpose to achieve glowing skin.
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That research inspired her to start her drink business, Me & the Bees Lemonade.
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This includes birds, butterflies, dragonflies, bees, grasshoppers, spiders and large and small mammals.
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I'll give you two: First, ICP has rapped about bees on multiple occasions.
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We've known for years that bees are dying globally at an alarming rate.
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All the things we'd never think about are affected by bees — even coffee.
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Scientists have mapped some of the neurons that let bees talk by dancing.
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"I thought the birds and the bees were about sex," the preteen says.
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In another scene, more bees fly around a hand making a peace sign.
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Learn About Bees Call Your Mom Laser TagAdults do this too, I think!
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Bees, said Bayer-Wilfert, only fly around ten kilometers away from their hive.
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Burt's Bees Baby Lovey Plush, Hold Me Bee Soother Security Blanket, $14.95; amazon.
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At one point, a hum of bees caused her to shriek and run.
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A Bees Knees is a slightly sweet cocktail served with a lemon twist.
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If there's been some bees with that bird it would be more understandable.
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Hungry elephants looking for a midnight snack bump the wires, rattling the bees.
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Bees are responsible for one in every three bites of food you take.
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Now, she employs bees to sting her in the name of perfect skin.
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Hornets sometimes get into a hive and eat bees, honey, honeycombs, and all.
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Neutrogena HydroBoost Hydrating Tint ($10.10): Burt's Bees 100% Natural Mattifying Powder Foundation ($14.22):
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All mothers should teach their daughters the birds, the bees, and the brows.
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Beetles, caterpillars, bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, locusts and crickets are the most popular.
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Queen bees aren't a reason for inequality but rather a result of inequality.
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Habitat destruction, pesticide poisoning, and diseases affecting bees are all contributing to CCD.
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About 40% of invertebrate pollinators, especially bees and butterflies, are facing extinction worldwide.
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Taliaferro added that one way to help bees is by buying organic food.
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These bees face many threats, including habitat destruction, invasive species, and natural disasters.
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And the thing is, bees are some of the best pollinators out there.
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They calm the bees by smoking them with burning branches or dried papaya.
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An estimated 10 percent of insects, which includes bees, are also at risk.
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Tiny bees are not the worst creature to get stuck in your eye.
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In my day we didn't delay games because of a bunch of bees!
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People want to help feed the bees, so they plant flowers and herbs.
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