#honeybees — Public Fediverse posts
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These ladies are hard at work!
#Bees #Honeybees #Honey #Beekeeping #RawLocalHoney #Honey #RawHoney #LocalHoney #Photography #NaturePhotography #Fediverse #LocalBusiness #SmallBusiness #Solarpunk #FarmStand #Farm #Farming #Garden #Gardening
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These ladies are hard at work!
#Bees #Honeybees #Honey #Beekeeping #RawLocalHoney #Honey #RawHoney #LocalHoney #Photography #NaturePhotography #Fediverse #LocalBusiness #SmallBusiness #Solarpunk #FarmStand #Farm #Farming #Garden #Gardening
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These ladies are hard at work!
#Bees #Honeybees #Honey #Beekeeping #RawLocalHoney #Honey #RawHoney #LocalHoney #Photography #NaturePhotography #Fediverse #LocalBusiness #SmallBusiness #Solarpunk #FarmStand #Farm #Farming #Garden #Gardening
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These ladies are hard at work!
#Bees #Honeybees #Honey #Beekeeping #RawLocalHoney #Honey #RawHoney #LocalHoney #Photography #NaturePhotography #Fediverse #LocalBusiness #SmallBusiness #Solarpunk #FarmStand #Farm #Farming #Garden #Gardening
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These ladies are hard at work!
#Bees #Honeybees #Honey #Beekeeping #RawLocalHoney #Honey #RawHoney #LocalHoney #Photography #NaturePhotography #Fediverse #LocalBusiness #SmallBusiness #Solarpunk #FarmStand #Farm #Farming #Garden #Gardening
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The bees found them! Also, our Barbados cherry tree is blossoming and I can see some cherries starting to form :)
#garden #gardening #farm #farming #solarpunk #fediverse #naturephotography #photography #bees #honeybees #honey
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Muscat grape honey being made, step 1. #honeybees #bees
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The look on this little one's face 😂
#PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #gardening #honeybees #BloomScrolling
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Did you know NASA once sent thousands of honeybees into space back in 1984 to see how they would build a honeycomb in zero gravity? 🐝Check out the full story here:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/in-1984-nasa-sent-thousands-of-honeybees-into-space-to-build-a-honeycomb-without-gravity-and-the-tiny-colony-eventually-created-31-square-inches-of-comb/amp_articleshow/133455600.cms#SpaceExploration #NASA #Honeybees #ScienceNews #ZeroGravity
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🐝✨ "Breaking news: scientists are now measuring the square footage of honey bee nightclubs. 📏🍯 Apparently, the future of #entomology is all about securing a dance permit for our buzzing friends. 🕺🔬"
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0341456 #honeybees #dancepermit #science #news #beeclub #HackerNews #ngated -
💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🐝🥚 Worker #bees normally intercept #pesticides entering a hive, shielding the queen. #UCDavis researchers showed that when chronic exposure overwhelms this filtration, queens offload the #chemical burden into their #eggs, contaminating the next generation and possibly contributing to delayed colony collapse.
👉 https://scitechdaily.com/honeybee-queens-may-pass-toxic-chemicals-to-the-next-generation/
#honeybees #science #pollinators #biology #entomology #nature #experiment #research #beekeeping #agriculture #food #honey #chemistry
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Miten viikko ja päivä ja maanantaiaamu alkoi: syötin pihassa mehiläiselle sokerivettä sormesta.
Lisää kuvia Pixelfedin puolella: @sanaemo_titia .
/ A different start to the week and the day and the morning: feeding a honeybee sugar water from my finger.
More photos on my Pixelfed account: @sanaemo_titia . -
Arizona bees need help from gardeners, experts say https://www.allforgardening.com/1926608/arizona-bees-need-help-from-gardeners-experts-say/ #arizona #ArizonaBackyardBeekeepersAssociation #ArizonaHoneybeeFestival #bees #GardeningArizona #honeybees #pollination #pollinators
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#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.19.
In excess of 91 million beehives in the world.
Honey/Pollination industry is worth €4 billion.
5.7 million flower visits to make 1kg of honey.
THIS AFFECTS NATIVE WILD BEES!‘Hey honey, take a walk on the wild side.’
- Lou Reed#bees #honeybees
#nature #biodiversity
#truth #environment
#honey #science #education
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I harvested plenty of sweet marjoram this spring so I decided to let it flower over the summer and the honey bees 🐝 are very happy with this decision. #gardening #pollinators #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography #honeybees #BloomScrolling
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#Honeybees and #shrimp are now getting vaccinated
#Vaccines that target #invertebrates’ innate #immunesystems could be a major boon for agriculture
It has become increasingly clear that #innateimmunesystem has own way of creating immune memory. Scientists think this memory is achieved through #epigenetic changes, modifications to #DNA that don’t alter genetic sequence, and that these epigenetic changes can be passed from one generation to the next.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/honeybees-and-shrimp-getting-vaccinated
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Today, my prose/almost-poem piece "Apistry" appears in Hyacinth Review:
https://hyacinthreview.org/david-milley-apistry/This piece shows Warren caring for his honeybees through the four seasons. It's brief and readable.
#prose #writing #queer #queerwriters #lgbtq #apiary #honeybees #beekeeping #seasons
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Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
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Keeping honey bees does NOT help our declining native wild bee populations.
In fact keeping honey bees means more bees competing for ever more precious forage.‘Bees are for life not just for honey.’
- The Bee Guy
#bees #honeybees #nature
#truth #facts #education #science
#worldbeesanctuary #environment -
Helping out the #honeybees by not trimming the flowers off my #mint plants…
#nature #CityWildlife #bloomscrolling -
WTF it's the dead middle of winter and a swarm looks to be moving into one of our hive boxes.
These hives were abandoned about a year ago. I wasn't able to look after them properly due to long-term injury. There were some whispers of activity around one of them about a week ago, and today a full swarm was in the air.
I hope they stick around! I missed looking after these little buzz-bums.
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Mapping Sleeping Bees within Their Nest: Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Worker Honey Bee Sleep
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4100802/ <-- shared paper
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H/T Dimitrios A. Karras
“Bees are not only very important for all ecosystems... They are very cute too....
However, bee societies are very complex and different sleep patterns exist for the other kinds of bees in the hierarchy..
In general, bees actually sleep, and many species spend around 5-8 hours resting each day, usually at night when they're not foraging.
Some solitary bees have been photographed sleeping inside flowers, where they cling onto the petals or stamens with their tiny legs and sometimes even their jaws.
One of the cutest parts is that tired bees can look almost like they've fallen asleep at work, curled up inside a flower with pollen still covering their bodies…”
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“Patterns of behavior within societies have long been visualized and interpreted using maps. Mapping the occurrence of sleep across individuals within a society could offer clues as to functional aspects of sleep. In spite of this, a detailed spatial analysis of sleep has never been conducted on an invertebrate society. [The authors] introduce the concept of mapping sleep across an insect society, and provide an empirical example, mapping sleep patterns within colonies of European honey bees (Apis mellifera L.). Honey bees face variables such as temperature and position of resources within their colony's nest that may impact their sleep. [They] mapped sleep behavior and temperature of worker bees and produced maps of their nest's comb contents as the colony grew and contents changed. By following marked bees, [they] discovered that individuals slept in many locations, but bees of different worker castes slept in different areas of the nest relative to position of the brood and surrounding temperature. Older worker bees generally slept outside cells, closer to the perimeter of the nest, in colder regions, and away from uncapped brood. Younger worker bees generally slept inside cells and closer to the center of the nest, and spent more time asleep than awake when surrounded by uncapped brood. The average surface temperature of sleeping foragers was lower than the surface temperature of their surroundings, offering a possible indicator of sleep for this caste. [They] propose mechanisms that could generate caste-dependent sleep patterns and discuss functional significance of these patterns…”
#bee #insect #hive #sleeping #sleep #patterns #monitoring #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #spatial #mapping #sleeppatterns #behaviour #society #community #honeybees #ecosystem #colony #infrared #remotesensing #temperature #instrumentation -
A mathematical biologist who studies collective decision-making by honeybees:
"An efficient division of labor in a collective doesn't require that anyone is in charge. Rather, if each individual follows a private rule, a decentralized group can perform as well as one with an omniscient coordinator."
Summary: https://phys.org/news/2026-07-math-reveals-honeybee-hives-patient.html
Original (paywall): https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2605309123
Showing that diversity is key to success in behavior as well as genetics and ecology.
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Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
https://connectsci.au/news/news-parent/9703/Spider-venom-kills-varroa-mites-without-harming
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48841259
#HackerNews #spidervenom #varroamites #honeybees #beekeeping #entomology
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7-Jul-2026
#Bumblebees exposed to up to seven times as much toxic metal as #honeybeeshttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1134866
#science #pollinators #bees #ecology #environment #pollution
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What does it feel like to be amid so many flowers as a bee?
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #Bumblebees #Honeybees #BloomScrolling #OurNeighborhood -
"Precise, individualized foraging flights in honeybees revealed by multicopter drone-based tracking", by Rachael Stentiford et al. 2026 (Andrew Straw's lab) @strawman
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00084-9
"Although bees could choose from multiple routes, we discovered that individual bees follow idiosyncratic paths with striking and repeatable precision."
"The level of precision exhibited by their flight paths exceeds that reported in the waggle dance, implying that dance variability does not reflect a limit in the bee’s underlying spatial representation."
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Honolulu #Honeybees Are Swarming. Yes, That's A Good Thing - Honolulu Civil Beat
https://civilbeat.org/2026/07/honolulu-honeybees-are-swarming-yes-thats-a-good-thing/
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Looked in the laying worker hive while I was walking by. Maybe less bees than when I moved it from the nuc a week ago.
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Fascinating – and alarming 🐝:
“The Bee That Everyone Wants To Save”, ‘The Naturalist’ (https://naturalist.bearblog.dev/the-bee-that-everyone-wants-to-save/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520599
#Bees #HoneyBees #BumbleBees #Insects #Environment #Pollination #BeeKeeping #BeeHives #BeesColonies #Flora
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And it's not just humans being affected!
#Glyphosate-Based #Herbicides and Their Potential Impact on the #Microbiota of Social #Bees
by Juan P Muñoz, Diego Soto-Jiménez, Anghel Brito, Claudio Quezada-Romegialli
Toxics. 2025 Jun 29;13(7):551.Abstract
"Bee pollination is essential for terrestrial #ecosystems and crop production. However, the species richness of wild bees and other #pollinators has declined over the past 50 years, with some species experiencing dramatic decreases. A key factor in maintaining bee health is their #GutMicrobiota, which plays an essential role in digestion, nutrient absorption, immune function, and resistance to pathogens. Disruptions to this microbiota can severely impact bee health, rendering them more susceptible to diseases and environmental stressors. Glyphosate, one of the most widely used herbicides, has been extensively studied for its effects on various organisms, with increasing evidence indicating its potential to disrupt bee microbiota. This review explores recent research on the effects of glyphosate and its formulations on the gut microbiota of #honeybees and #bumblebees. It examines species-specific responses, methodological approaches, and broader ecological implications. While evidence indicates that glyphosate can alter the gut microbiome in some bee species, its effects vary depending on exposure conditions, species, and the composition of microbial communities. Additionally, glyphosate formulations containing surfactants may exacerbate these effects. Given the endocrine-disrupting properties of glyphosate, further research is needed to understand the long-term consequences of exposure, especially its impact on hormonal regulation and bee resilience to #EnvironmentalStressors."
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12300706/#IBS #BeeHealth #Bayer #ToxicPesticides #Monocrops #Monocrap #BigAg #BigChem #Poison #RoundUpKills #USPol #WorldPol #Roundup #Glyphosate #Herbicides
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National Urban Beekeeping Day.
#urbanbeekeeping #beekeeping #bees #savethebees #honeybees #beekeeper #bee #honey #backyardbeekeeping #beekeepersofinstagram #beesofinstagram #beehive #honeybee #beekeepers #beekeeperslife #apiary #beekeepinglife #apiculture #pollinators #beekeeperlife #lovebees #honeycomb #beeswax #beehives #imkerei #urbanbeekeeper #nature #hive #queenbee #naturalbeekeeping
https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/national-urban-beekeeping-day/
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The bees have mostly yellow pollen, and some bright orange and a mix of dirty colors but not a lot of that. The first drone bee spotted coming out of the West hive. A drone and a very light colored bee at the Center hive which has more darker bees. It really stands out.
#beekeeping #bees #HoneyBees #apiary #BeeYard #BeeHives #April10
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#Italy: Wasp altered by #ClimateChange destroying #beehives
#VespaOrientalis has wrecked 40,000 beehives in three regions"An Italian wasp which has turned into a more aggressive alien species due to climate change is wreaking havoc among Italian beehives, green farming officials told ANSA Tuesday.
"The Vespa Orientalis hornet has become just the latest of threats to bees, whose declining numbers are jeopardising agriculture worldwide, said Laura Bortolotti, lead researcher of the Crea AA - Agriculture Environment think tank.
"The hornet has recently destroyed some 40,000 beehives in #Lazio, #Campania and #Molise officials said."'Despite being a native species in Italy, the Vespa Orientalis is behaving as if it were an alien species; its behavior towards bees has changed in a few years, becoming increasingly #aggressive, also due to climate change which, in some way, has altered the environmental balance', Bortolotti told ANSA.
"Vespa Orientalis is also an increasing threat to public health in urban areas, they said."
Source:
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2025/01/14/wasp-made-alien-by-climate-change-destroying-beehives_f7ea8991-9ca1-4c54-9cc6-e436909ec6c8.html
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Planetary electromagnetic pollution: it is time to assess its impact
by Priyanka Bandara and David O Carpenter
Published December, 2018
"As the #PlanetaryHealthAlliance moves forward after a productive second annual meeting, a discussion on the rapid global proliferation of artificial #electromagnetic fields would now be apt. The most notable is the blanket of radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation, largely microwave radiation generated for wireless communication and surveillance technologies, as mounting scientific evidence suggests that prolonged exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation has serious biological and health effects. However, public exposure regulations in most countries continue to be based on the guidelines of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which were established in the 1990s on the belief that only acute thermal effects are hazardous.
"Prevention of tissue heating by radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation is now proven to be ineffective in preventing biochemical and physiological interference. For example, acute non-thermal exposure has been shown to alter human brain metabolism by NIH scientists, electrical activity in the #brain, and systemic immune responses.
Chronic exposure has been associated with increased oxidative stress and #DNADamage, and cancer risk."Laboratory studies, including large rodent studies by the US National Toxicology Program and Ramazzini Institute of Italy, confirm these biological and health effects in vivo. As we address the threats to human health from the changing environmental conditions due to human activity, the increasing exposure to artificial electromagnetic radiation needs to be included in this discussion.
"Due to the exponential increase in the use of wireless personal communication devices (eg, mobile or cordless phones and WiFi or Bluetooth-enabled devices) and the infrastructure facilitating them, levels of exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation around the 1 GHz frequency band, which is mostly used for modern wireless communications, have increased from extremely low natural levels by about 1018 times. Radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation is also used for #radar, security scanners, #SmartMeters, and medical equipment (#MRI, diathermy, and #radiofrequency ablation). It is plausibly the most rapidly increasing #anthropogenic #environmental exposure since the mid-20th century, and levels will surge considerably again, as technologies like the Internet of Things and 5G add millions more radiofrequency transmitters around us.
"Unprecedented human exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation from conception until death has been occurring in the past two decades. Evidence of its effects on the #CNS, including altered #neurodevelopment and increased risk of some #neurodegenerative diseases, is a major concern considering the steady increase in their incidence. Evidence exists for an association between neurodevelopmental or behavioural disorders in children and exposure to wireless devices, and experimental evidence, such as the Yale finding, shows that prenatal exposure could cause structural and functional changes in the brain associated with #ADHD-like behaviour. These findings deserve urgent attention.
"At the Oceania Radiofrequency Scientific Advisory Association, an independent scientific organisation, volunteering scientists have constructed the world's largest categorised online database of peer-reviewed studies on radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation and other man-made electromagnetic fields of lower frequencies. A recent evaluation of 2266 studies (including in-vitro and in-vivo studies in human, animal, and plant experimental systems and population studies) found that most studies (n=1546, 68·2%) have demonstrated significant biological or health effects associated with exposure to anthropogenic electromagnetic fields. We have published our preliminary data on radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation, which shows that 89% (216 of 242) of experimental studies that investigated oxidative stress endpoints showed significant effects.
This weight of scientific evidence refutes the prominent claim that the deployment of wireless technologies poses no health risks at the currently permitted non-thermal radiofrequency exposure levels. Instead, the evidence supports the International EMF Scientist Appeal by 244 scientists from 41 countries who have published on the subject in peer-reviewed literature and collectively petitioned the WHO and the UN for immediate measures to reduce public exposure to artificial electromagnetic fields and radiation.
"Evidence also exists of the effects of radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation on #flora and #fauna. For example, the reported global reduction in #bees and other insects is plausibly linked to the increased radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation in the environment. #Honeybees are among the species that use magnetoreception, which is sensitive to anthropogenic electromagnetic fields, for navigation.
"Man-made electromagnetic fields range from extremely low frequency (associated with electricity supplies and #electrical appliances) to low, medium, high, and extremely high frequency (mostly associated with wireless communication). The potential effects of these anthropogenic electromagnetic fields on natural electromagnetic fields, such as the Schumann Resonance that controls the weather and climate, have not been properly studied. Similarly, we do not adequately understand the effects of anthropogenic radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation on other natural and man-made atmospheric components or the ionosphere. It has been widely claimed that radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation, being non-ionising radiation, does not possess enough photon energy to cause DNA damage. This has now been proven wrong experimentally.
"#RadiofrequencyElectromagneticRadiation causes DNA damage apparently through oxidative stress, similar to near-UV radiation, which was also long thought to be harmless.
"At a time when environmental health scientists tackle serious global issues such as #ClimateChange and chemical #toxicants in public health, there is an urgent need to address so-called #electrosmog. A genuine evidence-based approach to the risk assessment and regulation of anthropogenic electromagnetic fields will help the health of us all, as well as that of our planetary home. Some government health authorities have recently taken steps to reduce public exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic radiation by regulating use of wireless devices by children and recommending preferential use of wired communication devices in general, but this ought to be a coordinated international effort.
We declare no competing interests. We thank Alasdair Philips for assistance with the figure and Victor Leach and Steve Weller for assistance with the ORSAA Database, which has enabled our overview of the scientific evidence in this area of research."https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(18)30221-3/fulltext
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One of the folks from my gym has done something really cool. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/protectabee-honeybee-hive-entrance-silver-medal-protect-bees-1.6999000 @waterlooregion #bees #honey #BeeHives #Apiarists #HoneyBees #apiary #Solarpunk
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Received a sweet surprise in the mail today from an equally sweet friend. Backyard honey! 🐝 🍯 💛
