Archive | September, 2008

Bee Cozy Winter Wraps For Sale

22 September 2008

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Overwintering beehive cozy’s, like new condition. For sale $6.00 each. Please contact Frank Gorham at (506) 454-7969 or (506) 461-5301.

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Bees Hitch a Ride to Campus

22 September 2008

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Honeybees don’t normally travel far from home, but that wasn’t the case one morning recently in El Cerrito, California. “When four UC Davis employees approached their commuter van at 7 a.m. Friday, Aug. 1 in the BART parking lot in El Cerrito, some weren’t sure they wanted to board,” reported Kathy Keatley Garvey, of the [...]

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Silence of the Bees

20 September 2008

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Silence of the Bees

Update If you missed the original broadcast, no problem! You can now see the full-length video of the Nature program Silence of the Bees on the PBS website: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/silence-of-the-bees/full-episode/251/. Bees on PBS Nature Documentary (Originally posted: 1 November 2007) Silence of the Bees is the first in-depth look at the search to uncover what is [...]

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Beaverlodge Bee Program On Radio-Canada TV

12 September 2008

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If you have some free time on this coming Sunday afternoon, you can watch the members of the Beaverlodge (Alberta) bee research program in action on TV! This will be on the French language network of the CBC, on the science show called Découverte (Discovery), as part of a segment looking at factors causing the [...]

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The Vanishing of the Bees

12 September 2008

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The following is a trailer for The Vanishing of the Bees — a feature-length documentary that looks at the “economic, political and spiritual implications of the world wide disappearance of the honeybee, a mysterious ecological tragedy that could topple our food chain and forever change our way of life.” “If we want a diet that [...]

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