Researchers say they have unlocked the genetic secrets of honey bees' high sensitivity to environmental change.
The report marks the first time such effects had been recorded in honey bees.
As the name suggests solitary bees are lone operators, while bumble and honey bees are social and live in colonies.
Honey bees are well known for their unerring ability to find their way back to a colony or hive.
Last week the European Food Safety Authority warned that neonicotinoid pesticides should not be used on crops attractive to honey bees.
"Honey bees live in complex societies comprising tens of thousands of individuals, " explained study co-author Paul Hurd from Queen Mary, University of London.
For those who have a history of anaphylactic reactions to insects, vaccines are available for yellow jackets, wasps, honey bees and fire ants, Bassett said.
The researchers reckon that the reason why so many honey bees are dying is down to a combination of factors that are found only, so far, in America.
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African elephants are known to avoid acacia trees occupied by honey bees, so villagers in the south of the country are now constructing lines of beehives spaced around fields.
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Africanized honey bees, known colloquially as "killer bees, " are believed to have entered Texas in 1990 and have since spread to at least 10 other states, from California to Florida.
Africanized honey bees, which are hybrids of African and European bees, can be highly defensive around their nests and swarm more frequently than other honey bees, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
They have commissioned new studies that will look at the impacts of neonicotinoids on bumble bees in field conditions and to understand what levels of pesticide residues and disease in honey bees are normal.
"When people get a little carried away, they forget how all their guests may feel, " says Ms. Post, referring to wedding registries that might include such things as farm animals, honey bees and even manure.
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"Bad weather in spring prevented honey bees in many areas from collecting nectar from early flowering crops such as oil seed rape, and the rain continued in many places throughout June and July preventing honey bees from foraging on later crops, " he said.
The pests that honey-bees bite include varroa mites as well as wax moth larvae.
"The potential implications of this new research for honey-bees and their interactions with varroa mites and wax moth larvae will need to be looked at in more detail, but the initial results look really interesting, " said Giles Budge, senior researcher with the UK's National Bee Unit.
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Honey detective Vaughn Bryant analyzes pollen traces left by bees in honey to determine if it's legit and where it came from.
Delicious dates and honey produced by bees imported from Italy and Egypt are available year-round.
Many older people make a daily brew of mountain tea from dried herbs such as sage, thyme, mint, and chamomile, and sweeten it with honey from local bees.
Even the honey comes from the bees in the garden, with five or six beehives on the estate producing honey this year.
As bees make honey they secrete glucoseoxidase, an enzyme that releases the bleach hydrogen peroxide when it comes into contact with wound liquids.
Bees create honey, which can be sold on the market.
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Listening to the entirety of The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull, it's clear that Earth should score Hollywood's next revenge-fueled Western, a film genre finally returning to its doomsday-themed origins.
The organic farm provides about 100 varieties of produce and it also raises chickens and bees for eggs and honey.
She and her colleagues measured honey production, bee deaths, weight gain of colonies while foraging on canola, and insecticide residue on bees and in pollen, nectar, beeswax and honey.
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His grandfather and his father both kept bees in Mexico to make honey for the family.
Psilakis says Crete even has special bees that make particularly good honey.
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