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Bee Colony Collapse: Experts Race To Unravel Mystery; Beekeepers Fear A...
Photo: Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium Worker bees By Shermakaye Bass A year and a half ago, news of a mysterious phenomenon captured the country’s attention – something...
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Stung By Bee Colony Collapse, A BeeKeeper Fights To Retain 60-Year-Old Business
By Shermakaye Bass So far this winter, things are looking fair-to-middlin’ for David Ellingson’s honeybees, but the Minnesotan is holding his breath until later this month, when he learns how...
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Despite scary Halloween image, bats are environmental helpers
By Catherine Colbert Bats have historically gotten a bad rap as rabid, blood-thirsty creatures. While it’s agreed that the very thought of them conjures up vivid images of Béla Lugosi-style Dracula...
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Monarch butterflies: A natural wonder under threat
By Melissa Segrest Green Right Now Up close they are such delicate creatures, their bright orange wings outlined in black and accented with white spots. But when they migrate by the millions each year...
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Haagen Daz orchestrates campaign for the plight of the honeybee
By Barbara Kessler Green Right Now Help the Honey Bees, a web-based campaign by Haagen Daz is trying to build buzz for the beneficial insects, which are beset by a mysterious ailment that causes whole...
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Beekeepers and food and environment groups sue EPA over pesticides toxic to bees
From Green Right Now Reports Four beekeepers and five public-interest groups filed a federal lawsuit against the EPA this week for its role in allowing pesticides that are wiping out honeybees, causing...
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Let Lady Bird help you pick natives for your garden this spring
From Green Right Now Reports Lady Bird and LBJ in the wildflowers (Photo: The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.) Lady Bird Johnson, remembered for her love of Texas’ native flowers and for saving...
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Bees get a break in Europe
Green Right Now Reports Resisting industry pressure, a majority of European Union nations voted on Monday to ban bee-killing pesticides for two years. The temporary ban, hailed by environmentalists,...
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Save bees by skipping these pesticides
From Green Right Now Reports A bee on an Agastache plant. (Photo: GreenRightNow.com) By now we’ve all heard that honey bees are dying in record numbers across the planet, lost to a phenomenon known as...
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