This week experts confirmed that Africanized bees are within 60 miles (aprox. 100 kilometers) of Kansas and they may be here this summer.

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The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) today launches the map of the 130 species of invertebrates threatened to disappear, based on the list of endangered epecies of Brazilian fauna extinction prepared by the Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA). They are 96 insects as bees, beetles, ants, butterflies, moths and 34 species of other invertebrates, terrestrial as spiders, gongolos, earthworms and snails. According to the statement, Sao Paulo has the largest number of species at risk of extinction (46), followed by Rio de Janeiro (41), Minas Gerais (35) and Espirito Santo and Bahia (24 each).

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Recent experiments carried out by the Foundation Cajamar around the use of plastics to reject pests covered greenhouses to show that they are a good complement for wildlife assistant used to combat pests and also not hinder pollination the bumble bees, but the bees. This was one of the conclusions presented during the sixth and last of the Agricultural Technical Seminar 2007/2008 campaign, organized by the Foundation in collaboration with Cajamar Coexphal-faeces.

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Paper prepared by Hye Ji Park, Hwa Jeong Lee, Myung Sook Choi, Dong Ju Son, Ho Sueb Song, Min Jong Song, Jeong Min Lee, Sang Bae Han, Youngsoo Kim and Jin Tae Hong.

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Approximately 1,700 hives of bees have died in Pichincha, Tungurahua and Imbabura, in particular. The figure was disseminated by the representatives of the federations of beekeepers in those provinces who gathered yesterday at the agricultural college Luis A. Martinez, in Ambato. Pichincha is one of the most affected provinces. Only there have disappeared about 1,000, of the total stock of 4500, located in Machachi, Tabacundo, Cayambe, and Tumbaco Cumbayá.

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Two beekeepers died drowned this weekend in the Papaloapan river to fall from where the boat travelling and which also carried the crates of honey. Early reports indicate that victims Brom each sitting on the edge of the boat and one pushed the other into the water, so to see that not surfaced is not got to look and left.

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Paper prepared by Afroza Sultana, A H.M Nurun Nabi, Uddin M. Nasir, Hiroe Maruyama, Kazu-Michi Suzuki, Satoshi Mishima and Fumiaki Suzuki

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Paper prepared by Kismet K, Kilicoglu SS, Kilicoglu B, Erel S, Gencay O, Sorkun K, Erdemli E, Akhan O, Akkus MA and Sayek I

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A team of ecologists says queen bees were not polygamous right from the beginning, and that they became so after ensuring that their offspring would be taken care of by the hive. Led by behavioural ecologist Madeleine Beekman, an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney, the researchers compared the mating behaviour of 267 species of bees, wasps and ants that live together in highly co-operative societies. Writing about their findings in the journal Science, the researchers revealed that in older species, females were always monogamous, and that species with polygamous females like queen honeybees evolved relatively recently.

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About 30 people who want to start, or were new to backyard beekeeping, learned the how-tos, tricks and techniques at the Spring Beekeeping Workshop sponsored by the Saugahatchee Beekeepers Association. Classes were at the Lee County Cooperative Extension Service Office and a field demonstration at local beekeeper Ben McGehee?s BenMac Apiary in Opelika.

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