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Most companies exterminate bees to remove them and almost always use harmful chemicals and pesticides to kill the bees, leaving a carbon footprint on the environment in so doing, Bee Green Natural Bee Removal is an environmentally safe bee removal company using non-toxic substances, and gives the live bees to local bee keepers. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) August 02, 2012 Bee Green Natural Bee Removal, a company based in Los Angeles, has come up with an ingenious way of removing unwanted...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BeesFree, Inc. (OTCBB: BEES), a company that has developed an innovative composite food supplement for honeybees, BeesVita Plus(TM), to help honeybees avoid the effects of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), received its first order for delivery in Italy. This new order, which is subject to product registration and authorization in the European Union, calls for the company to deliver 4,500 liters of BeesVita Plus(TM) to Azienda...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BeesFree, Inc. (OTCBB: BEES), reports it is bringing-to-market an organically-engineered, patent-pending, honeybee feeding formulation that is a scientific breakthrough proven to arrest the deadly effects of colony collapse disorder. "BeesVita Plus is a concentrated solution that is introduced to the honeybees' water supplies," says David Todhunter, BeesFree's chief executive officer. "Studies show when honeybees drink BeesVita Plus they...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BeesFree, Inc. (OTCBB: BEES), a company that has developed an innovative composite food supplement for honeybees, BeesVita Plus(TM), to help honeybees avoid the effects of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), received a significant order for delivery in Slovakia. This new order, which is subject to product registration and authorization in the European Union, calls for the company to deliver 3,500 liters of BeesFreeVita Plus(TM) to...
Duncraft, a retailer of wild bird supplies, offers instant hummingbird and oriole nectar for their customers’ convenience. But many customers prefer to make their own nectar. Duncraft offers these recipes and tips to make sure their customers prepare nectars that are healthy for the birds. Concord, NH (PRWEB) July 19, 2012 Duncraft, a retailer of wild bird supplies, offers instant hummingbird and oriole nectar for their customers’ convenience. But many customers prefer to make their...
Scientists have discovered a way to make worker bees produce an enhanced version of royal jelly (RJ) – the super-nutritious substance that dictates whether larvae become workers or queens, and that is also renowned as a health supplement for people. Their study, which found that the super RJ that makes queen bee larvae grow 2-3 times larger than normal, appears in ACS' Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Chia-Nan Chen and colleagues explain that royal jelly is a thick liquid made...
This week, Australian bee supplement specialist Natural Life™, launches its highly anticipated Propolis One-a-Day capsule. Natural Life™ Propolis 2000 is a high potency formula created to improve consumer convenience with all the natural health benefits of Propolis in a single daily dose. Sydney, NSW (PRWEB) July 18, 2012 Propolis is a bee-hive product used by natural and traditional medicine practitioners to support healthy immune function and overall wellbeing. The new Propolis...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online It’s often been said that children expedite the aging process. At least, that’s what my parents always told me growing up. Pointing to their gray hairs and worn lines, they’d shoot ferocious looks at my younger brother and I and say, “Look what you did to me! I hope you have children who act just like you so you’ll understand what you’ve put me through!” Well, if a group of scientists are correct — and some...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online According to scientists at Arizona State University, honey bees may hold clues to human taste perception and metabolic disorders. Gro Amdam, an associate professor, and Ying Wang, a research scientist, in the School of Life Sciences in ASU’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences conducted genetic tests on honey bees and identified connections between sugar sensitivity, diabetic physiology and carbohydrate metabolism. Bees and...
NEW YORK, June 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a Statement by Dr. Peter Daszak, President, EcoHealth Alliance: EcoHealth Alliance, an organization with a long history of ground-breaking work on species declines by our disease discovery experts, welcomes the publication of two new papers on the critical issue of honey bee colony declines, focusing on the role of the parasitic mite Varroa destructor. The mite was introduced in South America in the late 1970s,...
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Apiology is the scientific study of honey bees, a subdiscipline of melittology (the study of all bees), which is a subdiscipline of entomology. Melittology comprises of more than 17,000 species other than the honey bee. Apiology includes apicology, which is the study of honey bee ecology. Honey bees are often chosen as a study group to answer questions on the evolution of social systems. People who study honey bees are called apiologists. There have been a number of notable apiologists...
The bumblebee is a flying insect of the genus Bombus in the family Apidae and a relative of the common honeybee. The bumblebee feeds on nectar and gathers pollen to feed its young. They are beneficial to humans and the plant world alike, and tend to be larger than other members of the bee family. Most bumblebee species are gentle. From this comes their original name: "Humblebee". Bumblebees are social insects that are known for their black and yellow striped bodies, a commonality among the...
The honeybee is a colonial insect that is often maintained, fed, and transported by farmers. Honeybees are a subset of bees which fall into the Order Hymenoptera and Suborder Apocrita. Of the approximately 20,000 known species of bees, four are considered honeybees: Apis florea, Apis dorsata, Apis cerana, and Apis mellifera (Western honeybee). It is thought that they have been domesticated at least since the time of the building of the Egyptian pyramids. Honeybees store honey (which is...
Bees (Apoidea superfamily) are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants. They are adapted for feeding on nectar, and play an important role in pollinating flowering plants, and are called pollinators. Bees have a long proboscis that they use in order to obtain the nectar from flowers. Bees have antennae made up of thirteen segments in males and twelve in females. They have two pairs of wings, the back pair being the smaller of the two. Bees are fuzzy and carry an electrostatic...
