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Honeybee Science And Practice


A selection of abstracts and articles from latest issues of Apiculture, Apicultural Review Letters and Natural Science and Science Review Letters

 

Honey Science

Honey is not honey, even if the process of production (in the honeybee) is always the same. The final product, which is yielded from honeycombs by running, extraction, or pressing, differ in several quality characteristics.
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Communication Disorder In A Bee Colony? 

What leads not only to communication - disorders within the colony, but causes by that also till now unexplainable phenomena? 
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Environmental Impact and Severe Negative Side Effects Of Genetically Modified Crops On Honeybees / Ecological Consequences

As a rule there is hardly a country in Europe which is interested in genetically engineered food; even eastern Europe and Russia are not interested. Neither consumers nor beekeepers are interested in this dayfly-technology which produces rather negative sideeffects than something useful. Agro-biotechnology is based on "Truthiness" instead on truth and facts from the start.
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Agro-Biotechnology - Wrong in the Premises? 

if one can find already mistakes in the premises, this leads finally to confusion and insecurity of true science. Also organisations who refer to science which is afflicted with wrong premises cannot be called trustworthy (for instance EFSA, WTO, EU-Commission, ISAAA, TranGen, Biosafenet). Neither allergies can be excluded nor toxical, or carcinogen effects in the long run. more ...

"Unexplainable" Phenomenon?

What is the matter regarding cruelty to bees and other animals? On Monsanto's biotechnological modified bovine growth hormone, a cancerogen effect and bird influenza.  more...

Varroa Resistance

Often proclaimed but rarely realized. Organic / ecological beekeeping is the better choice. more ...