Honeybees are dropping like flies. "There's no explanation for why they are disappearing," said Paterson beekeeper Tom Fuscaldo. "Everybody involved is looking for the answer and is wondering if it's over or if it's worse this year."
After capturing last weekend’s Honeybee Invitational in dominant fashion, the Enterprise Lady Wildcats have dropped two games in a row, including a key area contest.
The Enterprise Lady Wildcats junior varsity performed just like their older counterparts in the Honeybee Invitational last weekend. The JV dominated their opponents, outscoring them 55-8 in six games. The varsity outscored their opponents 46-1.
People who have both read Cormac McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men" and seen the movie tell me they like the picture better - perhaps because it's more compact (McCarthy loves description).
The recent "60 Minutes" television segment on the shortage of bees to pollinate all types of fruit and vegetable plants got me to thinking about honey. It seems that the bees are dying by the thousands from what is believed to be modern pesticides. This is causing the cost of renting bees for pollination to double in price. I frequently use honey when making a salad dressing. I put three to
Modesto, CA -- In California the almond orchards are in blossom and millions of honeybees are at work, pollinating, doing a job only they can do. Almonds are the first big bloom of the season and the first big test of honeybee health, CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports.
Joel and Ethan Coen won Academy Awards for both their screenplay and direction of this harrowing West Texas drama about a man (Josh Brolin) who stumbles upon $2 million from a failed drug deal and is then tracked by a hired killer with a bad haircut (Oscar winner Javier Bardem) and a sympathetic sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones).
At its 2008 annual upfront presentation, top-rated kids' brand Nickelodeon presented the advertising community with a host of new ideas and creative content demonstrating the network's dedication to innovation and its open-platform programming philosophy.
Hear the buzz? A relatively wet winter and the recent warm weather promises a spectacular wildflower season this year. Yet while those blossoms will add an extra burst of color to the desert, they also spell the beginning of a particularly prolific bee season.