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Hamilton, N.Y. a ' The Colgate Bookstore will host an author appearance and honey-tasting with Marina Marchese on Wednesday, November 18 at 7:00 p.m. at the Colgate Bookstore on 3 Utica Street.A Marchese is a beekeeper, owner of Red Bee Honey, and author of the new memoir Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper.A A book-signing will follow.A ...

A honeycomb of wild bees is pictured in a file photo. Use natural sugar sources in your baking, such as honey, molasses or agave nectar.

The honey bee business is all the buzz in the Robert Schulz family. Schulz, a 1980 graduate of Cambridge High School, became familiar with bees in the fourth-grade while doing a school report.

Deloitte's annual hit-list of New Zealand's 50 fastest-growing companies was revealed at five events across the country last night, supported by media partner NBR .

Bad weather, bee mites, and CCD to blame for 2009 yield that's barely 75% of yields in the past Bee-leave me, this bad news really stings .

New Zealand honey bees are under new threat from the varroa destructor mite following reports of resistance to treatment in the Auckland area.

Main Category: Complementary Medicine / Alternative Medicine Also Included In: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Growing concerns about health has caused the scientific community to focus their interest on investigating functional foods which contribute to boosting the prevention and reduction of the risk of suffering from certain illnesses.

A local beekeeper who is currently spearheading a project aimed at popularising the pursuit of apiculture as an economic venture among Region Seven communities is calling for a national convention of beekeepers from across the country to chart a course of action for the future of the industry.

I took this photo up in Victoria BC at the famed Butchard Garden earlier this year.A I just love seeing theA busy beeA on the flowerA gathering pollen it is said that the bee is the soul of a field of flowers.A A It's appropriate for this post, which is about an amazing dinner at Perbacco Restaurant that featured the bounty of honey and how it ...

Apparently, the White House is minding its own bee's wax lately. In the gardens of the South Lawn, which has hosted a hive of activity since the new first family moved in, working bees are turning out gallons of honey.

Honey's history in healing and infection control began around 3,000 B.C. in Egypt.

ABU GHRAIB, Iraq: Iraq's once-flourishing honey industry is struggling to revive itself, hit by long-term environmental degradation and six years of unrest that followed the 2003 US-led invasion.

While the school children and the first lady were busy growing vegetables on the South Lawn of the White House this summer, the bees were busy, too.

Honey is more than food in Iraq -- it's both a tradition and a remedy. Production plummeted following the warm but traditional beekeeping is making its way back one hive at a time.

In Ripeness , Jean-Luc Thunevin notes how in the last few days before the harvest, grapes are so ripe and screaming sugar that they get unwanted attention from wasps and other insects.

Honey for a sore throat, sure. But honey for sinusitis? Ordinary honey kills bacteria that cause sinus infections, in many cases better than antibiotics, says a new study from the University of Ottawa.

You might soon have to pay more for honey. For the past few years now, Quebec's beekeepers are being hit hard by a parasitic insect called a Varroa Destructor, which has been known to wipe out entire honeybee colonies across North America.

The day after a fire gutted their commercial apiary business, a family of beekeepers is picking up the pieces.

The right wax has to be combined with the proper wick for the best burn. Colors have to match exactly from batch to batch.

To compose the segment, producers from the network's flagship show spent a day with WNA's master beekeepers, capturing each step in the artisan honey process, from the placement of the hives in fields rich with sweet white clover, to the extraction of the honey, a process done entirely without the use of any chemicals.