Food & Drink Sep 24, 2020
Mobile honey-making tradition lives on in Japan
by Takuya Kojima
Migratory beekeepers have seen their numbers dwindle, but many remain committed to their traditions.
Environment Jul 13, 2019
Hive of activity: Tapping into the buzz of backyard beekeeping in Japan
by John Spiri
The importance of bees to Japan's agricultural sector certainly isn't lost on domestic hobbyists.
World Aug 29, 2018
It was a case of hold the honey, double the mustard in Times Square at lunchtime on Tuesday. Police shut part of 43rd Street near Seventh Avenue after a thick swarm of bees gathered atop a blue and yellow umbrella over a hotdog cart in ...
World / Science & Health Aug 16, 2018
Researchers in Canada playing detective with the yellow-banded bumblebee's genome have found evidence that inbreeding and disease are the likely reasons for the decline of the species, York University associate professor Amro Zayed says. The team led by Zayed, Sheila Colla and biology researcher Clement ...
World / Science & Health Aug 4, 2018
Trump administration lifts Obama-era GMO crop ban on U.S. wildlife refuges
The Trump administration has rescinded an Obama-era ban on the use of pesticides linked to declining bee populations and the cultivation of genetically modified crops in dozens of national wildlife refuges where farming is permitted. Environmentalists, who had sued to bring about the 2-year-old ban, ...
National / Science & Health | NATURAL SELECTIONS Nov 28, 2017
Bee research may redefine understanding of intelligence
by Rowan Hooper
The brain of a honeybee is tiny — the size of a pin head — and contains less than a million neurons, compared to the 85 billion in our own brains. Yet with that sliver of brain, bees can do some extraordinary things. They ...
National Oct 6, 2017
Elderly wheelchair user dies after attack by swarm of hornets
An 87-year-old woman died in September after she was stung more than 150 times by a swarm of giant hornets in Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, as she traveled home from a nursing facility, the local fire service headquarters said Thursday. Neither a staff member from the ...
World / Science & Health Oct 5, 2016
Scientists in Britain have managed to teach bumblebees to pull strings to get to food and then pass on what they have learned to others in their colony- showing a high level of intelligence despite their tiny brains. Researchers at Queen Mary University of London ...
World / Science & Health Aug 28, 2016
Minnesota sets broadest U.S. limits on chemicals blamed for bee declines
Minnesota's governor on Friday ordered the broadest restrictions yet in a U.S. state on the use of agricultural pesticides that have been blamed for hurting bees, fueling concerns that farmers there will not be able to protect crops from insects. Gov. Mark Dayton issued an ...
Environment Dec 5, 2015
Taking the sting out of household infestations
by Melynie Yoneda
The vast majority of telephone calls on household pests fielded by the Shibuya Ward Office's Public Hygiene Division in 2014 were not about rats, cockroaches or spiders but they involved something with a little more sting in its tail — hornets, wasps and bees. Of ...
Editorials Aug 1, 2015
All of the impressive scientific and medical gains of modern civilization are in danger of being lost because of the effects of climate change and environmental degradation.