Basically, the food system in this country for honeybees is broken, and it needs fixing.
Our honeybees are surrounded on all sides by the means to their own end.
It follows Smiley's visit to a veteran operative who keeps honeybees in his back yard.
The Plains states, the Midwest, the Mountain States -- all were once a gastronomic paradise for honeybees.
This trait makes honeybees essential to modern agriculture, which has itself evolved to depend on their services.
Other commercial crops that have come to rely on honeybees include blueberries, cranberries, cherries, cucumbers, watermelons, cantaloupes, and pumpkins.
Two million honeybees have been introduced to Sheffield as part of a year-long project to increase the bee population.
Wild honeybees, meanwhile, which were once common across the country, have nearly disappeared.
It is hard to pin down what has been causing honeybees to vanish.
Under this last, worst-case scenario, other pollinators would have to be found to perform the work that honeybees now do.
Like honeybees and ancient mariners, they can navigate by the sun, so they know the general direction in which to travel.
D. could keep spreading until people just give up on raising honeybees.
Left to their own devices, honeybees construct their hives in cavities, usually in trees and preferably with small openings that face south.
New, resistant strains of honeybees could, at least in theory, be bred.
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Chic Nob Hill hotel Fairmont San Francisco employs several hives' worth of honeybees on its terrace to produce nectar for upcoming afternoon tea services.
Honeybees are the only animals besides humans known to have a representational language: they convey to one another the location of food by dancing.
In a roundabout sort of way, the encounter had been set in motion several months earlier, in late February, when the Times ran a story about a new ailment afflicting honeybees.
The first, from a group led by Penelope Whitehorn and David Goulson of the University of Stirling, in Britain, examined the effects these insecticides have on bumblebees, which are closely related to honeybees.
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"We know that honeybees can fly over 10km from their hive to a patch of flowers to collect food (nectar and pollen) and then fly home - a round trip of over 20km, " says Dr Raine.
Even before Sept. 11 set off a rush of antiterror technology research, Sandia and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) had the zany idea of using honeybees to stand in for humans when collecting traces of bioweapons and explosives.
Inspired by previous laboratory-based work, which had suggested that sublethal doses of neonicotinoids damage honeybees' memories, their ability to forage, and their ability to navigate back to their hive afterwards, Dr Henry decided to conduct some tests in the wild.
Stateside, White and Church in New York City serves up a trio of insect cocktails, including a cinnamon-flavoured rum paired with honeybees, a margarita-like drink with Mexican spicy worms, and a Batida de Cocco drink with heavy cream and dried grasshoppers.
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