A team of beekeepers has proposed a plan to save bees. An AI-powered app would analyze images of beehives to spot harmful mites.
Source: Beekeepers think AI that targets mites can save us from the ‘beepocalypse’
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Little habitats on the prairie to save our nation’s pollinators
Source: A small city in Iowa is devoting 1,000 acres of land to America’s vanishing bees | Popular Science
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Join us here at National Geographic Kids as we check out ten facts about honey bees! Find out what honey bees eat, how they communicate, why they are so important to us and more!
Source: 10 Facts About Honey Bees! | National Geographic Kids
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Raw honey is a “functional food,” meaning it’s a natural food that also happens to provide unexpected health benefits beyond basic nutrition.
Source: The Many Health And Beauty Benefits Of Raw Honey | Care2 Healthy Living
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Switch out your intake of refined sugar and use pure raw honey instead — the health benefits can be enormous! Check out the many benefits of raw honey.
Source: Raw Honey Benefits for Healing & Raw Honey Uses – Dr. Axe
In case you didn’t know that honey was good for you.
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Garden centres and other retailers are selling supposedly ‘bee-friendly’ plants that contain high levels of dangerous insecticides, according to a new study. Researchers bought 29 such flowers from five different companies, four major retailers and one local nursery.
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Leaked draft says Labour will protect bees by banning all neonicotinoid pesticides, which have been linked to species decline
Source: Why has Labour included bees in its manifesto? | Environment | The Guardian
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There has been some ongoing concern about bee colonies, even fears of an impending “colony collapse disorder”, but both the fears and the causes have been misplaced, recent studies have shown.Rather than being a mysterious effect due to pesticides (like neonicotinoids) slight variations in bee populations remain the fault of parasites.
Source: How Varroa Mites Exploit Beekeeping | Science 2.0
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Source: Should I grow native plants for honey bees? – Honey Bee Suite
Source: Want to Save Wild Bees? Don’t Get a Beehive.
The bees most at risk are not honey bees, which are kept by beekeepers, but the wild bees which have lost habitat as well as struggling with the impact of highly efficient – ie lethal – insecticides.
There’s a lot of sense in this article, so pay heed. Essentially, plant flowers to help, leave bees alone and I would add, STOP USING PESTICIDES IN YOUR GARDEN.
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