Africanized bees are a very real problem at Tucson International Airport, where officials report the insects have very specific tastes. 'For whatever reason, they seem to like the smell of jet fuel, and especially the yellow color of the Southwest airplane,' said Judy Alexander, senior director of operations at the airport. But the stinging creatures can be a problem for all pilots... especially with airplanes that have been recently cleaned with lemon-scented cleaning products.

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Researchers Michael J. Boisvert and David F. Sherry of the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada have discovered that the bumble bee, can estimate the duration of time intervals. Insect pollinators feed on floral nectar that depletes and renews with the passage of time, and insect communication and navigation may also require the ability to estimate the duration of time intervals.

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A swarm of africanized bees attacked a man and his father as they repaired a roof in a small town in southeast Arizona, killing one man and hospitalising the other.

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Vanilla “the most popular flavor of the world”, belongs to the family of the orquídeas, follows vegetative a clonal cycle, for that reason its propagation is facilitated, nevertheless as a result of this there is little variety and diversity which causes a genetic crisis that is translated in the appearance of virus and fungi. As in all vegetative process the pollination is a determining aspect in the production of the fruits of the plants, in the case of vanilla, the only bee that allows it is the mariana Eulaema (Euglossa).

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Within the framework of the 'Program of Registry and Control of the Beeehives Entrance to the Province', the police of Regional II that it includes the departments of Chilecito and Famatina received specific qualification yesterday. The qualification was carried out in the Parochial Hall, organized by the Secretariat of Cattle ranch of the Province.

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The Department of Agriculture, Cattle ranch and Fish (DARP) of the Generalitat of Catalonia has published in its Government reporter the Order that establishes the aids destined to cover the economic costs with the damages suffered in the extensive cattle and apicultural operations of the region after the 2006 drought and that is accumulated to also the caused ones during the last year.

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This it has numerous properties that allow to apply it like antiinflammatory, analgesic and regulating of the inmune system.

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Fish and Wildlife advises beekeepers to set up an electric fence around their apiaries, or beehives. But Steiner scoffed at this idea. 'How am I going to power that out in the middle of nowhere?' he asked. Apiaries are usually out in the middle of a canola field, not next to a farmhouse, he said. Solar panels are likely not powerful enough to keep the fence charged day and night, and a generator isn't practical if the bee colonies are visited on a bi-weekly basis, he added.

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The greatest and pestilente flower of the world opened its petals in a spectacle that deserved absolute attention in the Botanical Garden of Brooklyn, New York. The flowering is in fact a ritual of the fertility. The plant imitates the corpse scent in decomposition to attract insects that settle on the cocoon, then the flower is closed so that they are in charge of the pollinatión.

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With an investment superior to RD$14 M (US$ 0.426M) in its first year of execution, they will impel the beekeeping in the Line the Northwest, benefit of 174 associations and 870 families. The project will be administered by the Cedaf, through the Dominican Apicultural Network (Redapi), and must like objective contribute to the improvement of the standard of life of the producing families of honey who reside in the provinces Montecristi, Dajabón and Santiago Rodriguez.

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