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41 min ago | WSET-TV Lynchburg

Southside Residents React to U.N. Recommendation to Eat Bugs

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization recently issued a report saying eating bugs is not only good for our health but it also helps the environment.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Entomology

1 hr ago | Washington Examiner

South Bend considers easing beekeeping rules

The proposed ordinance would eliminate the current requirement that a beekeeper have at least five acres of land, and it would create a beekeeping permit through the city's Department Code Enforcement, the South Bend Tribune reported .

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Related Topix: Science, Entomology

5 hrs ago | TheDailyBeast.com

Cool Idea: Using Bees to Find Land Mines

The European Union is sponsoring research by Nikola Kezic, a Croatian researcher, into using bees to detect landmines, and that's pretty cool.

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Related Topix: Science, Entomology

Mon May 20, 2013

WCHS-TV Charleston

Bee Attack

Jeff Morris Web Producer: Jeff Morris Also Contributing: Dave Benton Reported: May.

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Related Topix: Huntington, WV, Cabell County, WV, Science

New Statesman

Incoming: Aleksander Hemon, James Salter and Emily Berry at the Southbank Centre

Sophie Elmhirst: Not long ago, I met Aleksandar Hemon for lunch in St Pancras station.

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Eater

wire: Patrizi's Opens At Butterfly Bar; Bees Are Back At Trace

New food truck alert! Patrizi's has opened at the Butterfly Bar on Manor Road, from chef Nic Patrizi, using decades-old Italian recipes from his family's now-shuttered eponymous restaurant in Beaumont.

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The Janesville Gazette

Edgerton Hospital plans honeybee apiary on its campus

It's a fashion choice certain to turn heads at his job at Edgerton Hospital. By June, Kindschi, the hospital's human resources director, could have hundreds of thousands of new personnel to take care of at the hospital.

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Related Topix: Edgerton, WI, Science, Home Gardening, Home, Life, Food, Honey

EDGE

A Strange Disappearance of Bees

The premise of promise is at the core of Elena Hartwell's play, "A Strange Disappearance of Bees," now being presented in the region at Oldcastle Theatre Company's new space in downtown Bennington, Vermont.

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Related Topix: Science, Bennington, VT

Mother Jones

Croatians (and Americans) Training Honeybees to Sniff Out Landmines

Bees are basically the most important insect ever . Honeybees make possible roughly a third of everything we eat, and the bugs pollinate about $14 billion worth of crops and seeds in the United States each year.

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Related Topix: Science, Europe, World News, Croatia, Entomology, Agriculture,

Politics in the Zeros

Arizona desert answers my question in the affirmative

We're in Tuscon for a couple of weeks. I've been joking the Arizona desert will no doubt find new ways to bite, stab, and sting me as I hike around Tuscon the next couple of weeks.

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KFVS12

Scientist train bomb-sniffing honey bees

That's according to Tiramisu, the European Union sponsored program that's working with the University of Zagreb and others to find and destroy landmines At a Tiramisu meeting last month, scientists from the University of Zagreb presented their research on a specially trained colony of bees.

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Related Topix: Science

Lucianne.com

Bees, pesticides, more green lies

YouA ll remember all that fuss about bees and neonicotinoids last month. It seemed to come out of nowhere--like a flash mob.

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Related Topix: Science

Sun May 19, 2013

NewsandSentinel.com

Bee swarms seen, not to be feare...

Swarms of bees have been spotted in the Mid-Ohio Valley this spring, but this is not a problem, only part of the bees' cycle of life, say local beekeepers.

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Related Topix: Science, West Virginia

South Delta Leader

Bee shortage stings farmers, beekeepers

Beekeeper Don Cameron of Westham Island Apiary has all of his bees in production on this blueberry farm in Ladner.

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Related Topix: Science, Canada, World News, Life, Fruits, Food, Weather, Agriculture

The Guardian

Mother wasps do the work: Country diary 100 years ago

The mother wasps, founders of the future colonies, are now busily house-hunting, town-planning, wood-pulp paper-making, or hunting for food for their first hungry infants.

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Related Topix: Science

The Province

Fraser Valley blueberry farmers feeling sting as honeybee shortage pushes up pollination fees

Beekeeper Peter Awram tends bee hives at a blueberry farm in Pitt Meadows, BC Friday, May 18, 2013.

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Related Topix: Canada, Science, Agriculture,

West Seattle Blog

Video: Parade, festival launch West Seattle Bee Garden

The West Seattle Bee Garden is officially launched! As you'll see in our video, Seattle Police motorcycle officers, the Sounders' Sound Wave musicians, City Council President Sally Clark were part of the parade bringing the bees to the garden from West Seattle Elementary at midday today - along with lots of kids, from Roxhill Elementary as well as ... (more)

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Related Topix: Eastlake (Seattle, WA), Science

SFGate

Honeybees trained to find land mines

In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013 photo, a scientist inspects bees during a scientific experiment at the Faculty of Agriculture at Zagreb University.

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Related Topix: Science, Europe, World News, Croatia, Agriculture, Entomology

Post-Tribune

Going back to back, CP teen tackles geography, spelling bees

Ives, 13, received a globe from his grandparents when he was a first-grader studying in Kosice, Slovakia, where father Rob Ives worked as a manager at a U.S. Steel plant.

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Related Topix: Science, World News, Slovakia, Porter County, IN, Serbia,

The Las Vegas Sun

Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines

Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on fishing trip nearly a decade ago.

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Related Topix: Europe, World News, Croatia, Entomology,