see also

Agave
Sugar
Artificial Sweetners
Entomophagy (eating insects. . .)

Wikipedia
Honey
Apiary
Beekeeping
Bee bread
Folk medicine
Honey bee
Honey flow
Mason bee
Mead
Nectar
Royal jelly
Syrup
Wild honey

beeswax

Honey bee
Apis mellifera
Apiology
Cuevas de la Araña en Bicorp

In the news . . .

• UK bees in danger as Asian hornet sightings rise -- BBCNews (04 Septemer 2023)
  
  
• What did the Vikings eat? -- BBCTravel (20 June 2023)
  
  
• Bee gold: Why honey is an insect superfood -- BBCfuture (24 November 2021)
  
  
• Making honey without bees and milk without cows -- BBCNews (23 March 2021)
  
  
• Legal threat over bee-harming pesticide use -- BBCNews (27 January 2021)
  
  
• Beekeepers brace for next round with Canada's 'murder hornets' -- The Guardian (01 January 2021)
  
  
• Meet the bee brokers: 'You never stop learning about bees, they're just incredible' -- The Guardian (17 October 2020)
  
  
• Honey better treatment for coughs and colds than antibiotics, study claims -- The Guardian (18 August 2020)
  
  
• Loss of bees causes shortage of key food crops, study finds -- The Guardian (29 July 2020)
  
  
• The therapeutic sound of Slovenian bees -- BBCReel (21 July 2020)
  
  
• Post’s request to quash labelling suit against Honey Bunches of Oats cereals denied -- Bakery and Snacks (24 April 2020)
  
  
• Fates of humans and insects intertwined, warn scientists -- The Guardian (20 February 2020)
  
  
• Hive heists: why the next threat to bees is organized crime -- The Guardian (18 February 2020)
  
  
• The Bees and Other Creatures of My Childhood Are Disappearing -- The New York Times (17 February 2020)
  
  
• Climate Change: It’s a Buzzkill for Bumblebees, Study Finds -- The New York Times (11 February 2020)
  
  
• Bee friendly? Pollinating California's almond crop -- FOODnavigator (07 February 2020)
  
  
• 'Like sending bees to war': the deadly truth behind your almond-milk obsession -- The Guardian (08 January 2020)
  
  
• Urgent new ‘roadmap to recovery’ could reverse insect apocalypse -- The Guardian (06 January 2020)
  
  
• ‘Insect apocalypse’ poses risk to all life on Earth, conservationists warn -- The Guardian (13 November 2019)
  
  
• 'Alarming' loss of insects and spiders recorded - BBCscienceandenvironment (30 October 2019)
  
  
• Why have 500m bees died in Brazil in the past three months? -- The Guardian (29 August 2019)
  
  
• Widely used pesticide in US particularly harmful to bees, study finds -- The Guardian (06 August 2019)
  
  
• Russia alarmed by large fall in bee populations -- BBCNews (19 July 2019)
  
  
• The selfish case for saving bees: it’s how to save ourselves -- The Guardian (18 May 2019)
  
  
• EU to 'completely ban' outdoor use of pesticides blamed for devastating bees -- MPRNews (27 April 2019)
  
  
• Bavarian 'save the bees' success raises green hopes in Germany -- The Guardian (04 April 2019)
  
  
• What can bees teach economists about how markets work? -- BBCNews (03 April 2019)
  
  
• Bavaria to pass 'save the bees' petition into law in landmark move -- The Guardian (03 April 2019)
  
  
• Widespread losses of pollinating insects revealed across Britain -- The Guardian (26 March 2019)
  
  
• Bees: Many British pollinating insects in decline, study shows -- BBCNews (26 March 2019)
  
  
• World's largest bee, missing for 38 years, found in Indonesia -- The Guardian (21 February 2019)
  
  
• Vaccine for Honeybees Could Be a Tool to Fight Population Decline -- The New York Times (23 December 2018)
  
  
• World's first insect vaccine could help bees fight off deadly disease -- MPRNews (08 Decemer 2018)
  
  
• Can listening to bees help save them - and us? -- BBCNews (12 November 2018)
  
  
• The Moon Eclipsed the Sun. Then the Bees Stopped Buzzing --The New York Times (10 October 2018)
  
  
• Robotic bees could pollinate plants in case of insect apocalypse -- The Guardian (09 October 2019)
  
  
• Monsanto's global weedkiller harms honeybees, research finds -- The Guardian (24 September 2018)
  
  
• Bee crisis: EU court backs near-total neonicotinoids ban -- BBCNews (17 May 2018)
  
  
• Total ban on bee-harming pesticides likely after major new EU analysis -- The Guardian (28 February 2018)
  
  
• New clues to decline of bees and other pollinators -- BBCNews (28 February 2018)
  
  
• Insectageddon: farming is more catastrophic than climate breakdown -- The Guardian (20 October 2017)
  
  
• Bees 'go online' in Manchester -- BBCNews (22 September 2017)
  
  
• Farmers, beekeepers put aside differences to aid bees -- MPRNews (07 September 2017)
  
  
• Large-scale study 'shows neonic pesticides harm bees' -- BBCNews (29 June 2017)
  
  
• How Bees Freshen Up -- New York Times Science (16 May 2017)
  
  
• Judge: EPA violated law in approving products dangerous to bees, butterflies -- MPRNews (09 May 2017)
  
  
• What Would Happen if All the Bees Died Tomorrow? -- Tonic, VICE (01 March 2017)
  
  
• Buzzkill: Will America's Bees Survive? -- Discover (16 Frbruary 2017)
  
  
• A Bee Mogul Confronts the Crisis in His Field -- The New York Times (16 February 2017)
  
  
• Is America's most common pesticide responsible for killing our bees? -- The Guardian (05 February 2017)
  
  
• Why bees could be the secret to superhuman intelligence -- BBCfuture (15 December 2016)
  
  
• Cut down on bee-killing pesticides? Ontario finds it's easier said than done -- MPRNews (18 December 2016)
  
  
• Hawaiian bees are first on US endangered species list -- BBCNews (01 October 2016)
  
  
• Rusty patched bumble bee recommended for endangered list -- MPRNews (21 September 2016)
  
  
• Tashjian Bee and Pollinator Discovery Center -- Minnesota Landscape Aboretum (18 September 2016)
  
  
• GOP lawmakers take aim at Dayton's pollinator order -- MPRNews (13 September 2016)
  
  
• University of Minnesota's bee research facility set to open -- MPRNews (12 September 2016)
  
  
• Aimed at Zika Mosquitoes, Spray Kills Millions of Honeybees -- The New York Times (01 September 2016)
  
  
• Minnesota Cracks Down On Neonic Pesticides, Promising Aid To Bees -- MPRNews (31 August 2016)
  
  
• Seeking to reverse bee decline, Dayton orders limits on pesticide use -- MPRNews (26 August 2016)
  
  
• Plan bee: Minnesota sets broad limits on chemicals blamed for bee decline -- The Guardian (26 August 2016)
  
  
• Nearly two decades of data reinforce concerns that pesticides are really bad for bees -- The Washington Post (16 August 2016)
  
  
• Here's the colony-killing mistake backyard beekeepers make -- MPRNews (04 August 2016)
  
  
• Meet the Bee Heroes Working On the Front Lines to Save Pollinators -- Nancy Matsumoto, CivilEats (02 August 2016)
  
  
• Jatai bees are the only species that have a soldiercaste -- BBCearth (29 July 2016)
  
  
• Minnesota author's guide to a bee-friendly backyard -- MPRNews (26 July 2016)
  
  
• Wildflowers planted to aid bees may be crippling them -- MPRNews (22 July 2016)
  
  
• Bees spew water at their hive-mates when the temperature rises -- NewScientist (20 July 2016)
  
  
• Buying Organic Honey? Here’s What You Should Know -- Elizabeth Grossman, CivilEats (05 July 2016)
  
  
• Bee Speaker -- UMD News (June 2016)
  
  
• Honeybees Have Personalities (Sort Of) -- Discover (30 June 2016)
  
  
• How to plant a pollinator-friendly garden -- MPRNews (27 June 2016)
  
  
• Bees learn while they sleep, and that means they might dream -- BBCearth (25 June 2016)
  
  
• How squash agriculture spread bees in pre-Columbian North America -- Heritage Daily (21 June 2016)
  
  
• Do a bumblebee's hairs talk to the flowers? -- Christian Science Monitor (30 May 2016)
  
  
• City Bees Skip the Junk Food, Prefer Flowers -- Seeker (20 May 2016)
  
  
• These Photos Show the Stunning Diversity of North America’s Native Bees -- Jordan G. Teicher, Behold (02 May 2016)
  
  
• Plant Seeds to Help Bees -- University of Minnesota Brief, Vol. XLVI No. 14 (13 April 2016)
  
  
• Do Honey Bees Need Their Own Lobbyists? -- Taryn Phaneuf, CivilEats (14 April 2016)
  
  
• Home and garden giant ditches class of pesticides that may harm bees -- MPRNews (12 april 2016)
  
  
• Adopt a beehive -- save a beekeeper? -- MPRNews (29 April 2016)
  
  
• How bees give a heads-up when danger is near -- Christian Science Monitor (27 March 2016)
  
  
• Duluth's new policy could beckon bees -- DuluthNewsTribune (20 March 2016)
  
  
• USDA rejects whistleblower's appeal -- MPRNews (29 February 2016)
  
  
• Report: More pollinators species in jeopardy, threatening world food supply -- MPRNews (28 February 2016
  
  
• Sperm bank for bees generates a buzz in Fargo -- MPRNews (08 February 2016)
  
  
• USDA whistleblower launches new bee research effort -- MPRNews (23 December 2015)
  
  
• US wild bee numbers decline as land is converted for biofuel -- BBCNews (22 December 2015)
  
  
• Farmers Have Been Enjoying The Fruits Of Bee Labor For 9,000 Years -- NPR (11 November 2015)
  
  
• Humans have been using bees for at least 9000 years -- Science (11 November 2015)
  
  
• Prehistoric farmers were first beekeepers -- BBC News (11 November 2015)
  
  
• Drink like a local: 21 drinks to try around the world -- BBC News (05 October 2013)
  
  
• Honeybee heists rise as colonies collapse -- MPRNews (06 September 2015)
  
  
• Thief steals bees, $900 worth of honey in Kandiyohi County -- MPRNews (03 September 2015)
  
  
• Sweet obsession: China’s manuka madness -- BBC (31 August 2015)
  
  
• U.S. stream samples show presence of insecticide tied to die-offs of honey bees -- Reuters (19 August 2015)
  
  
• Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea owns 200,000 bees -- RollingStone (16 August 2015)
  
  
• What’s the Buzz About Wild Bees? -- The New York Times Video (4 August 2015)
  
  
• Bee research lab gets buzzing at U -- MPRNews (03 August 2015)
  
  
• Minnesota's native bee population remains a mystery for researchers -- MPRNews (22 June 2015)
  
  
• Bees 'get a buzz' from pesticides -- BBCNews (23 April 2015)
  
  
• Could tech lift the lid on bee behaviour? -- BBCNews (06 April 2015)
  
  
• Good buzz: U researchers find hope in the thriving urban bee -- MPRNews (14 August 2013)
  
  
• Appetites: The decline of bees could change the way we eat -- MPRNews (30 October 2013)
  
  
• Neonicotinoid pesticides 'damage brains of bees' -- Rebecca Morelle, BBCNews (27 March 2013)
  
  
• Curious reaction to honey 'can cause heart arrhythmia' -- BBCNews (25 June 2013)
  
  
• Bee population size is just one production factor, researchers warn -- Nathan Gray, FOODnavigator (06 June 2013)
  
  
• As bees perish in large numbers, a search for causes and solutions -- MPRNews (28 May 2013)
  
  
• Mystery Malady Kills More Bees, Heightening Worry on Farms -- The New York Times (31 March 2013)
  • A Disastrous Year for Bees - Video
    
    
• Honey Sting Leads to U.S. Charges of Smuggling From China -- Phil Mattingly, Bloomberg (20 February 2013)
  
  
• Research in Southern India Provides a Sweet Look at Preservation of Ecological Knowledge -- Science Daily (30 November 2012)
  
  
• Washington state’s first ‘zombie bees’ reported; parasite causes bees to fly erratically, die -- The Washington Post (25 September 2012)
  
  
• Blamed for Bee Collapse, Monsanto Buys Leading Bee Research Firm -- Anthony Gucciardi, Reader Supported News, NaturalSociety (23 April 2012)
  
  
• Georgia Unearths the World's Oldest Honey -- EURASIANET (30 March 2012)
  
  
• Asian Honey, Banned in Europe, Is Flooding U.S. Grocery Shelves -- Andrew Schneider, Food Safety News (15 August 2011)
  
  
• "Honey for the Maya" -- a short film (07:54) by Stephen Buchmann (15 June 2011)
  
  
• Royal Ontario Museum investigates sudden bee death -- BBCNews (11 February 2011)

• A Honey of a Story: Brief history of bees and honey -- Vaughn M. Bryant Jr., Palynology Laboratory, Texas A&M University
  
  
• Ancient Beehives Yield 3,000-Year-Old Bees -- Wired (07 June 2010)
  
  
• Ancient Cave Painting -- Kirsten Traynor, MD Bee
  
  
• APISERVICES
  
  
• The Bee -- Andrew Gough
  
  
• Bee-Keeping -- andré dollinger
  
  
• The Bee Photographer -- Éric Tourneret
  
  
• Bees, honey and health in antiquity -- The Free Library by Farlex (01 January 2008)
  
  
• Bees in Art -- marinbees.com
  
  
• Bees in Spain /Beekeeping in Spain -- Iberianature
  
  
• Bees in the [Mayan] Codices -- MayaLords
  
  
• Bee Source
  
  
• The Bee Works
  
  
• Beekeeping and Sustainable Livelihoods, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  
  
• Breakthrough in bee mite battle -- BBCNews (22 December 2011)
  
  
• A Brief History of Honey -- The Honey Association
  
  
• A Brief Survey of Ancient Near Eastern Beekeeping -- Ronan James Head, FARMS Review: Volume - 20, Issue - 1, Pages: 57-66, Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute, 2008.
  
  
• The Buzz in Mexico -- Melina Gerosa Bellows, National Geographic Traveller (January/Februaryu 2012)
  
  
• Crane, Eva. The Archaeology of Beekeeping. Ithaca: Cornelll University Press, 1983.
  
  
• Crane, Eva. The World History of Beekeeping and Honey Hunting. London: Routledge, 1999.
  
  
• The Deseret Connection -- Hugh W. Nibley, Provo, Utah: Neal A. Maxwell Institute.
  
  
• Eight ancient drinks uncorked by science -- msnbc (15 December 2009)
  
  
• Ethiopia: Stuck on Honey -- BBC (16 March 2000)
  
  
• Ethnohistory of the stingless bees Melipona beecheii (Hymenoptera: Meliponinae) in the Mayan Civilization, decipherment of the Beekeeping Almanacs part I in the "Madrid Codex" and the study of their behavioral traits and division of labor -- Lopez-Maldonado, Julio Edgar, Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, Davis, 2010, 242 pages; AAT 3429563 <http://proquest.umi.com/pqdlink?did=2188879851&Fmt=7&clientI d=79356&RQT=309&VName=PQD>
  
  
• Foreign Honey Oozes In -- Houston Chronicle (16 May 2010)
  
  
• Freemasonry & bees -- Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon
  
  
• Gathering portrayed in Paleolithic art -- Cryptoforestry (20 January 2012)
  
  
• Harnessing honey's healing power -- Angie Knox, BBCNews (08 June 2004)
  
  
• Himalaya Honey Hunters Cling to Cliffside Tradition -- National Geographic (14 April 2004)
  
  
• Health Benefits of Honey -- honey-health
  
  
• Historical Uses of Honey as Food (47:50) -- UCtelevision (03 November 2011)
  
  
• The History of Maya Beekeeping -- Cozumel Mexico
  
  
• Honey -- Wikibooks Cookbook
  
  
• Honey and History -- gousiaris.gr
  
  
• Honey as an Antimicrobial Agent -- Honey Research Unit, Waikato University
  
  
• Honey Bee Mystery -- National Geographic Kids (2 September 2008)
  
  
• Honey Composition and Properties -- J. W. WHITE, JR., AND LANDIS W. DONER, BEEsource
  
  
• Honey from Folklore to Marvel -- History of Medicine, Hamad Medical Corporation
  
  
• Honey history -- About.com
  
  
• The Honey Hunters -- Softpedia
  
  
• Honey Love: Urban Beekeepers
  
  
• Honey Traveler: Everything in the world about honey
  
  
• Honey varieties with pictures
  
  
• How Bees Work -- howstuffworks
  
  
• Humans, the Honey Hunters -- Smithsonian (19 December 2011)
  
  
• Islam and Pollinators -- ARC Alliance of Religion and Conservation
  
  
• Mason bee -- Wikipedia
  
  
• Mazar, Amihai, and Nava Panitz-Cohen.  “It Is the Land of Honey: Beekeeping at Tel Rehov." Near Eastern Archaeology, Volume 70, Number 4, December 2007, pp. 202-219.
  
  
• Michigan Beekeepers' Association 2009 Calendars [images]
  
  
• Mid-Atlantic Apiculture Research and Extension Consortium (MAAREC)
  
  
• Nepal’s honey hunters -- Gabriella Le Breton, Telegraph (6 June 2010)
  
  
• Opportunistic HoneyHunting among HunterGatherers -- 78 Steps Health Journal (16 September 2011)
  
  
• Pollinators -- National Park Service
  
  
• Post-colony collapse disorder, bees receive a helping hand in cities -- Scout Report, 25 September 2009, Volume 15, Number 38
  
  
• Ransome, Hilda M. The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1937 [Mineola, NY: Dover, 2004].
  
  
• Recognising the economic benefits of nature in 2011 -- BBCNews (09 January 2011)
  
  
• Report: Georgia Unearths the World’s Oldest Honey -- Giorgi Lomsadze, EURASIANET.org (30 March 2012)
  
  
• Seales, Rebecca.  Just buzz-ness as usual... Fearless Nepalese honey hunters scale 250 ft cliffs in pursuit of their prize - while under attack from the world's largest bees.  MailOnline, 28 May 2012.  Accessed 25 August 2013.  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2151002/Just-buzz-ness-usual--Fearless-Nepalese-honey-hunters-scale-250ft-cliffs-pursuit-prize--attack-worlds-largest-bees.html.
  
  
• The-Stingless-Bees -- flizoo
  
  
• Sweet as Honey -- TipKing
  
  
• Toussaint-Samat, Maguelonne. A History of Food. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons/Blackwell 2009.
  
  
• U.S. National Honey Board
  
  
• Valli, Eric, and Diane Summers. Honey Hunters of Nepal. NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1988.
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• Value-Added Products From Beekeeping, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  
  
• Why Honey Is Eaten for Rosh Hashanah, and Other Burning Questions -- Lisa Bramen, The Smithsonian Magazine (18 September 2009)
  

• VIDEOS

  Every Third Bite -- snagfilms.com

Mesolithic Honey gatherer, La Araña Cave, near Bicorp, Valencia, Spain
ca. 7,000 B.C.

Wikipedia

A bee visiting a lupine flower in the springtime. The orange wad of pollen in the bee's pollen basket is from the flowers.

howstuffworks




Worker bees filling and sealing honey combs

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