Sentences with phrase «honey on a bee»

I use honey on a bee sting and it never swells or gets irritated.

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Bee Downtown installs honey bee hives on the grounds of corporate headquarters, which are often located in urban areas with just the kind of varied flora that bees need to thrive.

Delta became the first Atlanta company and U.S. airline to host honey bee hives built and supported by Bee Downtown, an innovative startup focused on stabilizing a healthy honey bee population.

Reflecting on the physical complaints she hears from other mothers about their children, she thinks, «There is, after all, strong brown soap for poison ivy, iodine for cuts and bruises, mud for bee stings, honey for sore throats, chalky white casts for broken bones.

For example, a honey bee forager's decision whether to collect nectar or remain in the nest depends on how much nectar is already stored in the nest (OWSI).

Hi Jun, it's of course debated a lot based on definitions of veganism but no as it comes from bees, honey for a lot of people isn't strictly vegan.

You've heard of the infamous Africanized Killer Bees — we've turned the tables on these prolific honey producers, which are actually the predominant bee species in the rainforests of Costa Rica, by tapping into their golden harvest to produce BeeSting Honey N» Habanero Pepper Sauce.

She also goes into detail about her experience as a beekeeper and teaches readers how bees make honey, how it's harvested, what they can do to help the bee population and what is going on in the hives throughout the year.

But over the last decade, both native and honey bee populations have been declining at alarming rates, raising concerns about the impact on our global food security.

Since the bees are feasting on a variety of wildflowers that change with the season, the honey's flavor characteristics constantly evolve, deepening in color and flavor.

My bees make great honey, I'm on my second batch of apple, ginger and lemon kvass already and it's DELICIOUS — Thank You!!

Then bee honey or thickened maguey syrup is to be spread on.»

Natural Botrytis - Killing Pesticide Licensed A British company is on the cusp of commercialising an all - natural pesticide that can kill the grape fungus botrytis and is harmless to the honey bee...

The presented topics focused on: - Economical, ecological and social implications of apiculture - Legal norms and guidelines / official and private standards - Perspectives of organic apicultural production - Conversion problems, risk assessment and evaluation - Specific apiary operations - Quality management and assurance in organic apiculture - Inspection and certification processes - Labeling / packaging and marketing - Endemic Iranian bees and their potentials for honey production - etc..

The consumer watchdog is preparing to act on some brands of cheap imported honey, which the bee industry claims do not meet local food standards and could be deceptively labelled.

This equipment depends on the size of your operation, colonies of bees to keep and the type of honey you intend to produce.

Healthy Traditions is the exclusive source of this premium organic honey in the U.S.. Most commercial honeys available on the market today come from bee farms, where the bees are controlled within a certain area and get their pollen from usually only one kind of flower.

The answer is yes depending on a variety of factors to put into considerations; such as the type of honey bees you've kept, geographic location, weather, temperature, pests, local flora, and among others.

It's done so with its leatherwood honey, a distinctive, Tasmania - only food that relies on the island's cool temperate rainforests as forage for its bees and, in those forests, it relies on only one species.

We let the bees get in on the nutty fun with our honey - roasted almonds, roasted with real honey.

Next bee honey or thickened maguey syrup was spread on.

As strange as it sounds, I was stung by a bee in the process and also ran around the kitchen after several other bees that had smelled the honey and came into to see what was going on.

With the lure of The Honey Exchange and the honey tasting (oh, okay... and maybe a trip to the baseball card shop too), Calvin was the brave soul who made the journey with me, sitting on the ride home with this little box full of ten thousand bees buzzing next to him.

The other day, I was attending a webinar — thankfully not one with video - conferencing capabilities — on honey bee colony losses for an article commissioned by a local magazine.

Letting the kids learn about bees, how they make honey and their role in pollination is exactly what we did in this hands on, pretend play activity.

A plague of parasitic mites is exterminating New York bee colonies, threatening $ 500 million in losses from the state's annual agricultural production that relies on bee pollination and honey production.

This raw honey comes from Illinois, where the beekeepers take care to keep their bees isolated and feeding on organic plants and flowers.

Manuka honey comes from New Zealand — specifically, from bees that feed on the Manuka bush.

«Also, we can not say which influence flupyradifurone will have on bees in combination with other pesticides which are frequently found in honey and pollen in residual amounts,» Hannah Hesselbach adds.

Update Sept. 11, 2015: ZomBee Watch, a citizen science project, reported on September 1, 2015 that one of its participants, Joseph Naughton, discovered and captured a honey bee parasitized by the zombie fly Apocephalus borealis on his porch in New York.

About a quarter of our food production is dependent on honey bee pollination.

The species of nosema used in the study (Nosema apis) has long been thought to be benign compared to the many other parasites and pathogens that infect honey bees, and no one had previously looked for the effect of nosema on behavior with such a low dose.

He has recently started collaborations with scientists who work on economically and ecologically important systems like fisheries and honey bee colonies.

Two years ago he and other entomologists went to work on what sounded like the scenario for rip - roaring fiction: widespread, unexplained disappearances of honey bee workers that left the youngsters and queen behind for no obvious reason.

If honey bees continue to decrease, it would lead to disastrous upheavals in agriculture and the food on our tables.

Flitting and calling, the bird leads the way to a bee's nest and feasts on the wax after the honey hunters have raided it.

GAO also suggested that EPA look into obtaining toxicity data from pesticide makers on how pesticides affect non — honey bee species.

The task force had called on USDA to monitor populations of native and wild bees, not just managed honey bees.

The researchers don't yet know how exactly these genes influence social behavior in either bees or people, but manipulating the genes in honey bees may shed light on what they do in humans, says Alan Packer, a geneticist at the Simons Foundation in New York City, which funds autism research, including this bee work.

«We also wanted to look at both managed honey bee colonies and «wild» ones, to see if that made a difference — and it did,» says David Tarpy, a professor of entomology at NC State and corresponding author on the paper.

The study results also suggest that some fungicides, which have led to the mortality of honey bee larvae in lab studies, could have toxic effects on colony survival in the field.

Scientists have announced the results of research conducted on honey bee colony declines and the factors attributed to honey bee losses.

Most beekeepers understand the risk when they put their bees on a farm, and they are willing to take that risk for the sake of a big honey crop.

Months of testing and data acquisition revealed that typical levels of neonicotinoid exposure, which bees could experience when foraging on agricultural crops — but below lethal levels — resulted in substantial damage to the honey bee's ability to fly.

But while they're capable of defending themselves with their painful stings, honey bees live in a world filled with danger in which predators seize them from the sky and wait to ambush them on flowers.

In the first large - scale and comprehensive study on the impacts of transporting honey bees to pollinate various crops, research from North Carolina State University shows that travel can adversely affect bee health and lifespan.

Nieh worked with scientists at Yunnan Agricultural University in China to study the impact on foraging Asian honey bees of the monstrous - looking Asian Giant hornet, Vespa tropica, and a smaller hornet species known as Vespa velutina, which has invaded Europe and now poses a threat to European honey bees.

After pollinating throughout the spring and producing honey in the summer, Arlee Apiary bees were sent to a sandy lot near San Francisco, where they spent the winter living on corn syrup — a scene that Comfort describes as «fear and loathing in a city of 5,000 hives.»

The electric fields that build up on honey bees as they fly, flutter their wings, or rub body parts together may allow the insects to talk to each other, a new study suggests.

Maryann Frazier is an entomologist at Penn State University, University Park, where she works on developing integrated pest management of honey bee diseases and mites.