Posted by Melissa Waage in Health and the Environment
Pollination by insects, mainly bees, is worth $217 billion worldwide each year, according to a study recently published in Ecological Economics and highlighted in Business Week. That's equivalent to 9.5% of the world's crop production. (And two-and-a-half times as much...
Posted by Melissa Waage in Health and the Environment
Listen, I like a good mystery. But not when it comes to my food. Mystery meat? Bad. The continuing colony collapse disorder mystery, threatening the bees that pollinate our crops? Even worse. If government agencies have information that could...
Posted by Melissa Waage in Health and the Environment
Honey bees are critical to U.S. agriculture. And with no solid solutions to Colony Collapse Disorder, U.S. hives continue to dwindle. This spring, beekeepers lost an estimated 29% of their bees to Colony Collapse Disorder, or CCD. You’d think that...
Posted by Melissa Waage in Health and the Environment
A national survey released this week shows honey bee losses on the rise this year, prompting the state of Pennsylvania to pump money into colony collapse disorder (CCD) research. The Apiary Inspectors of America's annual survey indicated 36.1 percent of commercial...
Posted by Melissa Waage in Health and the Environment
If someone offers to sell you a beehive out of the back of a truck this spring, do not buy it, even if it’s a really good deal. Because those bees may be hot.That’s right—the law of supply and demand...
Posted by Melissa Waage in Health and the Environment
The premium ice cream maker recently announced it's launching a new flavor to call attention to the importance of honey bees and help fund research into colony collapse disorder. Haagen-Dazs says that without honey bees, the strawberries, raspberries, and other...
