http://www.metafilter.com/tags/honeybee Posts tagged with 'honeybee' at MetaFilter. Sun, 09 Jul 2006 22:04:19 -0800 Sun, 09 Jul 2006 22:04:19 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/52887/Bees <a href="http://www.nrdc.org/OnEarth/06sum/bees1.asp">The Vanishing.</a> "Bees are in grave danger. So is our food supply. Why something so small matters so much." tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.52887 Sun, 09 Jul 2006 22:04:19 -0800 Agriculture Bees Food Honeybee Pesticides Pollination Varroa_mite homunculus http://www.metafilter.com/40867/Environmentalism%2Dgets%2Dpersonal The <a href="http://www.invasive.org/browse/subject.cfm?sub=4996">little<a> <a href="http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef608.htm">bug</a> eats the <a href="http://koning.ecsu.ctstateu.edu/Plants_Human/bees/bees.html">bigger</a> <a href="http://www174.pair.com/birdland/Breeding//">bug</a>, and <a href="http://www.delawareonline.com/newsjournal/local/2005/03/31beecolonylosses.html">"[i]t's bad news for beekeepers, farmers and anybody who likes to eat."</a> An invading parasite imperils the American honeybee -- and your fruit basket. In only six months <a href="http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2005/03/28/m1a_honeybees_0328.html">"40 percent to 60 percent of the bees nationwide have perished".</a> And <a href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/03/28/BAGDLBVG0H1.DTL">"that, in turn, hampers production of about one third of the human diet, including almonds, apples, strawberries, cherries, blueberries, sunflowers, melons and cranberries."</a></a></a> tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.40867 Thu, 31 Mar 2005 14:20:42 -0800 Apis_mellifera food fruit honeybee invasive_species newsfilter pollination Varroa_destructor varroa_mite orthogonality