This bee guardian performs a valuable service, while getting in touch with something greater than self
For Ali Pinion, beekeeper, there really is no such thing as a “typical day at the office.” Work may send her off to extract bees from an attic, or make tinctures and candles from products of the hive, or even climb 12 feet up a tree convincing thousands of honey bees to change their permanent address.
Nashville Music City Center abuzz with 100K bees on roof
Nashville’s Music City Center is now home to 100,000 bees as part of the venue’s sustainability initiative.
EPA plans temporary pesticide restrictions while bees feed
If honeybees are busy pollinating large, blooming croplands, farmers wanting to spray toxic pesticides will soon have to buzz off.
Popular pesticide hurts wild bees in major study
A common type of pesticide is dramatically harming wild bees, according to a new in-the-field study that outside experts say may help shift the way the U.S. government looks at a controversial class of chemicals.
Calif. drought saps honey production
California’s record drought hasn’t been sweet to honeybees, and it’s creating a sticky situation for beekeepers and honey buyers.
Bees created unwanted buzz at Kentucky store
After setting things abuzz by trapping customers in a store, a hive of honeybees has been safely removed from downtown Danville in central Kentucky.
Birney Imes: An afternoon with beekeepers
On a recent Saturday about 40 beekeepers stood in the twilight on a cement pad outside a metal farm building in south Noxubee County.
Honeybees trained to find land mines in Croatia
Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on a fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined.
Table Talk serves up the buzz on bees
The Friends of the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library and Hitching Lot Farmers’ Market present Birney Imes, avid amateur beekeeper and editor/publisher of The Commercial Dispatch, as the featured speaker at the June 15 Table Talk series.
Birney Imes: The first day of summer
In the heat you can smell the honey and beeswax 10 feet from the hive. As our grandparents did in summers past, the bees escape the swelter by clustering outside on what is equivalent to their front porch. There and on the sides of the hive boxes they will remain making their low hum throughout the night. If the morning is cool, they will have retreated back inside by the time I return with my coffee.