French beekeepers abuzz with worry over dying bees From AFP France (AFP) Less than a year after France's decimated bee populations showed signs of recovery, beekeepers here are once again in a panic as their income-generating worker drones are disappearing by the tens of millions. Many scientists, and most beekeepers, attributed the first good news in a decade of decline to the banning of Regent and Gaucho, two pesticides thought to enter the hives through the pollen collected by the bees, especially from France's ubiquitous sunflowers. The most...

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Uganda: Government to Carry Out National Livestock Census From AllAfrica.com Ssenkabirwa & Martin Ssebuyira Kampala THE government is set to carry out a nationwide livestock census to establish livestock numbers by species, Daily Monitor has learnt. The Assistant Commissioner Monitoring and Evaluation, Mr George Otim, said the census will be a big step in establishing a livestock database. He revealed that the current statistics on livestock are outdated since a similar exercise was last carried out 10 years back.

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Bees add to IT city buzz From Times of India BANGALORE: It's not just people who are migrating to Bangalore. These provide shelter for swarms of wild bees (Apis dorsata), also known as rock bees, coming in from all over. According to B N Narasimaiah of the government bee keeping training centre, Shivanahalli, adjacent to the Bannerghatta National Park, lack of water and nectar-yielding flowers in the traditional habitats are driving bees to Bangalore. The presence of coconut trees and nectar-yielding plants is the main reason for bees...

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Local beekeeper stirs up buzz at library From Milford Mirror Harrison said he started keeping bees as a hobby in 1986 with one hive in Milford. He keeps bees in wooden bee boxes, each of which has 10 frames for the bees to live. Harrison said bees will use propolis to fill any space in the hive that is smaller or larger than this number. He leaves 70 to 90 pounds of honey in each hive for the bees to use as their food supply for the winter. "When we take the honey from the bees, we are honey robbers. While the female worker bees head out into the...

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Sir Edmund Hillary Plain man, mighty deeds From Economist Everest expedition was especially remarkable: fitness and physical courage are all very well, they argued, but the world's highest peak was simply waiting to be scaled, and a steady traffic nowadays makes its way to the top unnoticed, except for the litter it leaves. Both the dismissive and the awe-struck, however, agree that Sir Edmund's other life was wholly admirable, and he himself said he was prouder of it than of anything else. If New Zealand claimed Sir Edmund's loyalty, Nepal, and...

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