Scientists examine cause of bee die-off
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Scientists investigating a mysterious ailment that killed many of the nation's honeybees are concentrating on pesticides and a new pathogen as possible culprits, and some beekeepers are already trying to keep their colonies away from pesticide-exposed fields.
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Scientists find a potential reason to explain why bird flu is so deadly for people.
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Australian and British scientists have achieved a technical breakthrough to help control insects that have developed resistance to common agricultural pesticides, the New South Wales state government said on Thursday.
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A mysterious disease is killing off U.S. honeybees, threatening to disrupt pollination of a range of crops and costing beekeepers hundreds of thousands of dollars, industry experts said on Monday.
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Scientists are investigating the cause of the latest foot-and-mouth outbreak at two farms in Surrey.
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Fossilized orchid pollen on the back of  a bee preserved in amber has offered the first evidence that  these delicate flowers existed around the time of the  dinosaurs, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.
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Honeybees can smother their enemies to death by swarming them, European researchers reported on Monday.
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Honeybees have been vanishing at an alarming rate from 24 American states, threatening crops.
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Blog: Berkeley researchers have documented the super-fast recovery of tropical Hypolimnas bolina butterflies from the onslaught of a bacteria that killed only males.
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Bats in New York and Vermont are mysteriously dying off by the thousands, often with a white ring of fungus around their noses, and scientists in hazmat suits are crawling into dank caves to find out why.
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Without a trace, something is causing bees to vanish by the thousands. But a new task force hopes to finger the culprit and save the valuable crops that rely on the insects.
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Honeybees could be keeping a cornucopia of anti-cancer compounds in their hives, early research in mice suggests.
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Some experts on insect biology say that without better monitoring, there is not enough information to know if anything new or calamitous is happening to honeybees.
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Bats are dying off by the thousands as they hibernate in caves and mines around New York and Vermont, sending researchers scrambling to find the cause of mysterious condition dubbed "white nose syndrome."
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WATERLOO, Iowa - Firefighters had to be called after a plan to evict a swarm of bees went up in smoke. Residents used gasoline to start a fire in hopes of smoking out a hive of bees from under their home Thursday when the house caught on fire, Battalion Chief Virgil Powell said...
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North Carolina is trying to boost the buzz surrounding the state's crops. As farmers leave tobacco and move into new crops like cucumbers, melons, and berries, the state is confronting a crisis: it simply doesn't have enough honeybees to pollinate all those flowering plants.
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Animal and plant species have begun dying off or changing sooner than predicted because of global warming, a review of hundreds of research studies contends.