Mystery Bee Disappearances Sweeping U.S.
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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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I saw it when I popped the lid of the supers - I couldn't have missed it, being nearly the size of my palm.  A common orb spider, hiding in these old unused honey supers.  It and about eighty more of its kind have built webs all around my equipment.  I spent the most of a week fighting them.  Now I see that there are some important lessons to be learned.
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By MARCUS WOHLSEN  SAN FRANCISCO - Friends of an acclaimed computer scientists who vanished at sea said Wednesday they were expanding their search for him to waters off Mexico, nearly a week after the Coast Guard called off its own search.
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MIAMI  - The bizarre disappearance of tens of thousands of ballots has fueled worries over Florida&#39;s ability to avert a repeat of the chaos of 2000, when Americans were kept guessing for 36 days who won the election.
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A long spell of wet weather is having a 'dramatic effect' on ground nesting bees, a conservation group says.
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A team of 20 scientists is joining the search for a missing H-bomb off the coast of Georgia. The government believes a report of some unusual radiation readings might be coming from a hydrogen bomb that was lost near Tybee Island in 1958.
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It's a sweet time for honeybees in the rolling hills of eastern Pennsylvania, and the ones humming around Dennis vanEngelsdorp seem too preoccupied by the blooming knapweed nearby to sting him as he carefully lifts the top off their hive. VanEngelsdorp, Pennsylvania's state apiarist, spots signs of plenty within: honeycomb stocked with yellow pollen, neat rows of wax hexagons housing larval bees, and a fertile queen churning out eggs.
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Scientists yesterday identified a virus as one of the likely causes of the recent wave of honeybee colony collapses across the country.
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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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Of the roughly 1.9 million children who disappear each year in the United States, a small but startling number of them -- about 204,000 -- are abducted by family members, including parents, grandparents, siblings, and other close relatives.
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A virus has emerged as the unanticipated suspect in the mysterious decline of North American bees.
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Scientists believe the honey bee may hold the key to understanding more about alcohol addiction.
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More than 6,000 species of butterflies and other insects, as well as mites, fungi and assorted unloved but important species, will also be wiped out when listed endangered species go extinct, scientists said on Thursday.
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Sean Gorman can plot a map of New York bars located in neighborhoods where single, college-educated women live. He can see how bad traffic is on different parts of the Capital Beltway and, if he wanted to, he could find out if killer bees are known to swarm near his Georgetown office.
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The bizarre disappearance of tens of thousands of ballots has fueled worries over Florida's ability to avert a repeat of the chaos of 2000, when Americans were kept guessing for 36 days who won the election.
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The honey bee, long seen as the world&#39;s most important insect, is now helping scientists to discover how alcohol affects the brain.
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Life & style: Leaving patches of your garden to run wild creates a rich habitat for nesting bumblebees - and could help reverse the rapid decline in their population, writes Stephen Moss.