Honey bees are as essential to the nation's crops as rain and sun, but a mysterious disease and a cold snap last winter killed off 72 percent of Ohio's bee population. Beekeepers such as Cheryl Wachsmuth hope their hives do much better this year. Although it's still early, things do look better, experts say.

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Paper prepared by María Leonor Quintero-Mora, Amparo Londoño-Orozco, Francisca Hernández-Hernández, Patricia Manzano-Gayosso, Rubén López-Martínez, Carlos Ignacio Soto-Zárate, Liborio Carrillo-Miranda, Guillermo Penieres-Carrillo, Carlos Gerardo García-Tovar & Tonatiuh A. Cruz-Sánchez

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The ?honey-do? list at UC Davis? newly revitalized Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility is now shorter, thanks to a $100,000 research donation from ice cream maker Haagen-Dazs to address the recent decline in the bee population. The funds will aid research into sustainable pollination and a devastating phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder, and will support a postdoctoral researcher, said Walter Leal, professor and chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology.

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In her effort to shed light on the health of native pollinating bees, Associate Professor of Biology Gretchen LeBuhn is soliciting the help of thousands of 'citizen scientists' nationwide. The 'Great Sunflower Project,' the first coast-to-coast study of bee pollination, will store and analyze the data at San Francisco State University. 'Our project is going to use data collected by the general public to produce the first real map of the state of bees in the continental United States,'

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Africanized honey bees will be outlaws in Martin County in about 30 days. The Martin County Commission Tuesday passed what may be the first ordinance in Florida banning Africanized honey bees, capable of stinging children and animals to death. 'I think this is a good idea,' said Commissioner Susan Valliere shortly before the vote. The ordinance authorizes county officials to obtain a warrant to remove the bees and their hives from private property. It also authorizes county officials to charge property owners for removal and court costs.

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Photographer Adam Makarenko gets up close and very personal with bees and hives in his Miniature Apiary project, but his imaginative work uses dioramas and bee molds instead of the real thing. The photos display a stunning and fantastical side of nature.

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Beekeeping is no longer limited to rural areas, as city centers and residential areas are becoming hives of activity. And surprisingly, it seems bees are adapting well to the 'penthouse' lifestyle atop tall buildings. For instance, a shopping mall in Tokyo bought some beehives for this spring as part of a development effort in the area. Two years ago, in Tokyo's Ginza district, a volunteer group, the Tokyo Mitsubachi (honey bee) project, set up a rooftop apiary with about 20,000 Japanese as well as Western bees near one of the main avenues in the well-known shopping area.

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The new study, presented here at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunotherapy (AAAAI), is the first attempt to determine if sublingual immunotherapy is effective against honeybee sting allergies, researcher Giovanni Passalacqua, MD, of the Allergy and Respiratory Diseases Clinic at the University of Genoa says.

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In this fiche you will find how this French beekeeper is extracting and processing propoli

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The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (TNAU) will take up exclusive research on sting-less bees as part of the department of biotechnology?s network project.The project will specifically involve the TNAU undertaking study on bio-ecology of stingless bees and evolving improved meliponicultural (honey yield) techniques. The research project will bring out life secrets of stingless bees and document floral resources that provide nectar, pollen and resin for their sustenance.

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