I hope that these
bees in
Baharak, Afganistan are still doing well.
From the Scottish Highlands
you can check out this
skep on super style of beekeeping then visit
the beekeepers home page and see beautiful wool sweaters
which *might* be ordered by mail!!!
Rural beekeeping
is being promoted
as a cottage industry to support the preference
for local honey which accounts for only 3% of
the honey available! Check out this site about
Beekeeping Efforts in Malaysia to see what they're
doing.
There is a really nice
web page on
on
Beekeeping in Africa which has some cool pictures
of a log hive and basket hives which they hang in trees!
I think I'll try that.
I found
this site about
beekeeping in Slovakia that has a few articles
in english as well as a dictionary of
english/slovak beekeeping terms.
A personal story
told by authors
Steve Buchmann and Gary Nabham
tells of the quest for the Asian Rock bee with a Malay honey hunter.
As the Oleander in Austin
started
to look like they've survived winter, I found a site on traditional
beekeeping in Tunesia. Pictures of woven hives are only part of this
fascinating
web page by Mike Griggs. The picture of the clay smoker is the best
part.
I've always wanted to know what a
bee's brain looked like.
Now you can go to
Pitt University
to find out.
Ever wanted to know more about what
a queen does?
Be sure to check
here to see a great page with fantastic drawings about the life
in a hive!
Is there honey in your medicine cabinet?
A recent article on
on Dr. Koop's web page brings to the public New Zealand biochemist
Peter Molan's research on honey as a dressing for wounds! Be sure to check
it out.
Big bee, little bee
and all the species in between
are elegantly explained in
An introduction to understanding honeybees, their origins, evolution and
diversity, an excellent article by Ashleigh Milner of the UK's Bee Improvment
and Bee Breeders' Association.
Bee transporting mold spores
are discussed in a May 1999 article
from Cornell
University that discusses their use delivering beneficial mold to strawberry
patches.
Can we tell an "Africanized Bee" from
a European honey bee?
The only way to tell the difference between
Africanized honey bees (AHB) and European honey bees (EHB) is by the use of
morphometrics. Morphometrics utilize a large number of characters (up to 20 or 30
specific measurements on each bee) and complex mathematical calculations to
separate different objects, or in this case bees. Since the most simplistic interpretation
of the difference between the AHB and the EHB is "size" the USDA did
a
study to verify that they could tell the two apart. The site has moved and
I'm still looking for it.
Worries about fewer pollinators
can't be solved by more and more honeybees. I had thought tomatoes were
wind pollinated, but here is a
great article about buzz pollination showing the importance of protecting
bumble bees from pesticides and their success as pollinators.
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