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Tri-County Community Calendar for May 14 (Tri-County Journal)
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Etc. COMMUNITY BLOOD DRIVES: 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. THURSDAY, MAY 15, St. John's Mercy Hospital, 901 E. Fifth St., Washington; and 2 to 6:30 p.m. MONDAY, MAY 19, Knights of Columbus Hall, 204 S. Commercial in St. Clair. Info: (636) 239-8000. .. read more..

Persistent loss of bees having sour effect on economy (San Antonio Express-News/..
Sunday, May 18, 2008

What's causing the problem remains unanswered. .. read more..

All-Time Top Rated Documentary on IMDB is Heima
Saturday, June 28, 2008

''Heima'' Rated Top All-Time Documentary on IMDB LOS ANGELES-- June 27, 2008 --Heima, the 2007 documentary film that chronicles a tour by Icelandic group Sigur Ros, has been named the number-one documentary of all time by widely respected movie industry source IMDB. Alan Calzatti, director of Music.. .. read more..

Last Flight of the Honeybee? (Environmental News Network)
Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Dave Hackenberg's bees have been on the road for four days. To reach the almond orchards of California's Central Valley, they pass through the fertile plains of the Mississippi, huge cattle ranches and oilfields in Texas, and the dusty towns of New Mexico on their 2,600-mile journey from Florida. Th.. .. read more..

Oxford man researches way to protect honeybees (The Oxford Press)
Monday, May 19, 2008

OXFORD — Butler County made large-scale beekeeping possible, when L.L. Langstroh invented the modern bee hive in Oxford more than 150 years ago. .. read more..

Entertainment Giant Reaches Out to Latino Consumers
Saturday, April 26, 2008

Online Entertainment Giant Bodog Reaches Out to Latino Consumers Online gaming and entertainment leader Bodog Entertainment announces new services for Latino consumers, including a full-service customer service line in Spanish and plans to have a fully functioning Spanish-language gaming site. St. .. .. read more..

Small Business E-commerce Retailers Jump Start With Google Shopping
Saturday, June 14, 2008

Google Shopping Jump Starts Small Business E-commerce Retailers During the holiday season the search engine giant Google added a Shopping tab to its homepage, a tab which directly links to its on-line product catalog called Product Search. FastCommerce, a small business enterprise e-commerce provid.. .. read more..

Inventors Wanted For Texas Reality TV Show
Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Reality TV Show Looks for Inventors in Texas How TV Shows and Internet Sites Help Thousands of Aspiring Inventors Transform their Big Ideas into Reality. Everyday Edisons has announced the casting calls for Season 3, with the next auditions being held at the Dallas Convention Center today, starting.. .. read more..

Grocery Shopping Network Selected to Increase the Power of Food & Drug Website
Monday, June 9, 2008

Haggen, Inc. Selects Grocery Shopping Network to Increase the Power of Its TOP Food & Drug Website Grocery Shopping Network Adds TOP Food & Drug stores to its Growing Network of Grocery Stores MINNEAPOLIS-- June 09, 2008 --Grocery Shopping Network announces that Haggen, Inc., headquartered in Belli.. .. read more..

Different Solution to Real Estate Mortgage Crisis Needed
Friday, May 2, 2008

Real Estate Center Economist: Different Solution to Mortgage Crisis Needed The five-year freeze on mortgage interest rates recently announced by the federal government may be intended to help responsible homeowners avoid foreclosure , but a noted economist with the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M U.. .. read more..

Stung by losses, nation's beekeepers try to rebuild (Lexington Herald-Leader)
Sunday, June 1, 2008

In the woods and rolling farmland of Central Texas, Clint Walker is breeding queen bees. Stashed in nondescript boxes underneath a stand of trees, the bees could be easily missed. But the queens are a lifeline for Walker and other commercial beekeepers, who are furiously trying to replenish their de.. .. read more..

BeeAlert Bee Control Systems Provides Outdoor Workers and Emergency Personnel Sa..
Monday, May 19, 2008

Late Spring is bee season in the US, as colonies swarm in search of new homes and food sources. Increasingly among those colonies in the southern US are Africanized honey bees, popularly known as "killer bees," as they continue their northern migration from South America. .. read more..

Bees - Special English Agriculture Report on Bees
Without bees, fruit and nut growers as well as many other farmers would not have a crop. There are more than twenty thousand kinds of bees. But only honey bees make enough honey for people to use. Honey can be very thin and light in color or dark and thick. How the honey looks depends on the kinds of flowers used by the bees.

Wiliams: When encountering Africanized bees, a daytripper should be wary
Africanized bees, after entering the United States in the early 1990's, have taken over much of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California. If a person sees a wild swarm of bees throughout this region, they are "more than likely" to be Africanized.

Honeybee population increases on isle
From March through June, bees are swarming. It’s a time when beehives naturally divide. A queen leaves the hive with about half the workers, said Mike Moore, a beekeeper with Bayou City Bees Honey Co.

British bees stung by Government cuts!
A leading business pressure group is backing a campaign to safeguard the British honeybee population whose future is threatened by Government cuts despite the huge contribution they make to the agriculture industry by spreading pollen.

Bees attack, kill 78-year-old Paris man
A 78-year-old Paris man died Thursday morning after being attacked by a swarm of bees in northern Hopkins County. The justice of the peace said he attributed the cause of death to bee stings and ordered an autopsy to determine if the bees were Africanized.

Agriculture ministry to conduct $15m beekeeping census
The information gathered will assist in the implementation of programmes to increase the number of bee colonies in the island and to assist farmers improve their management practices.

Church Has 1 Million Bees, Honey in Walls
The church has hired McCool's Wildlife Removal of Rocky Grove to remove the honey, seal the damaged walls _ and relocate an estimated 1 million bees to a local bee keeper. The bees aren't crazy about the move. McCool has been stung more than 100 times this week.

Accident frees 1 million bees in Texas
A truck accident left authorities in north-central Texas battling up to 1 million bees freed from boxes containing honey and hives in the crash. A state-certified beekeeper was called in Wednesday and along with his children, ages 12 and 15 rounded up the boxes and put them back on the truck

Nation's crops at risk as varroa mites kill off bees
Honeybees in Arizona and across the country are being decimated by mites in an onslaught that could threaten crops from cranberry bogs in New Jersey to melons in Arizona and the almond industry in California.

It's big bees-ness
With the season's first batch of honey ready to be extracted from the comb, beekeepers in the Pittsburgh region this month are as busy as, well, you know. Local honey is big business for even bee hobbyists, whose products -- ranging from honey to beeswax moisturizers -- can be found at farmers' markets, small markets, health food stores and some supermarkets.

Inmates experience the buzz of beekeeping
Hinton brought the hive with 40,000 to 50,000 honeybees to Utah County's jail garden to pollinate the plants and provide honey. Inmates work in the garden as part of the jail's industries program.

Why do bees buzz?
When bumblebees vibrate flowers to release pollen, the corresponding buzz is quite loud. Honeybees (genus Apis) are incapable of buzz-pollination and are usually quiet when foraging on flowers.

Killer bees make presence felt in Valley
Weekly bee incidents involving the Africanized species have prompted several fire department and city health officials to advise bee attack prevention guidelines. The species often involved in attacks are crossbreds of the Africanized bee and the honey bee.

Beekeepers back moves to keep out killer varroa bee mite
Beekeepers are throwing their weight behind a new agency in charge of keeping a honey-bee killer out of the South Island.

Mayan stingless bee keeping: Going, going, gone?
Long before Europeans brought honey bees (Apis mellifera) to the Americas, Mayan bee keepers harvested honey from the log nests of stingless bees native to tropical forests. Now, colleagues from the Colegio de la Frontera Sur in Quintana Roo, Mexico and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) warn of the imminent demise of stingless bee keeping on the Yucatan — a result of ongoing cultural change and habitat loss.

Bee-keeping project for Pulau Sebatik
A bee-keeping project will be implemented in Pulau Sebatik, off the east coast of Sabah, for the benefit of the residents who are mostly poor.

Bee Keeping, Honey: Is It Malawi's Hidden Treasure?
According to SBDARA Chief Director John Harawa, bee farming is better than any other farming. He said it helps other horticultural and crop farmers because of the pollination work that bees conduct.