Sticky Tires

Bee keeping, gardening, farming, photography, film, food, biking and other stuff I find interesting in life.

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As we’ve written before, the mysterious mass die-off of honey bees that pollinate $30 billion worth of crops in the US has so decimated America’s apis mellifera population that one bad winter could leave fields fallow. Now, a new study has pinpointed some of the probable causes of bee deaths and the rather scary results […]

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[email protected] recommended this story from Grist.org: E.U. bans another bee-killing insecticide First the European Union banned three neonicotinoid pesticides, and now it's restricting use of a nerve agent that's toxic to bees. If only the U.S. were so concerned about pollinators.

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Beekeeping dog in ‘astronaut’ suit detects infected hives by smell

(via TreeHugger)

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Watch as a honey bee tackles her job of removing the body of a bumble bee from a mating nuc

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Supersedure Sci Fi on Flickr.

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Queen cells (in cell protectors) out of the incubator and ready for the mating nucs

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New Start on Flickr.

Queen cell being placed into a mating nuc

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A beautiful ending on Mobile Bay to a very stormy day.

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Happy 4th of July!

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Happy 4th of July!

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"Carpenter Bee" (Great mind behind image: George Tapley)

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