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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title>pollinators | The Love Network</title><link>http://pollinators.love.com</link><language>en-us</language><docs>http://pollinators.love.com/rss.xml</docs><description>A Blog with news about pollinators</description><copyright>AOL LLC. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only.</copyright><generator>Blogsmith | Relegence | AOL LLC.</generator><item><title>Talent will decide on livestock law within city limits</title><link>http://t.love.com/311147378</link><description><![CDATA[Fresh eggs and honey can be legally produced inside city limits under a new law expected to be passed Monday by the City Council. 


Goat milk is OK, too, as long as the goat providing the milk isn't much bigger than a Great Dane. 


Nearly a year after residents asked city officials to consider allowing chickens and bees on residential properties inside city limits, council members will give final consideration to an ordinance allowing certain kinds of animals to be kept for food. 

]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 5:02:00</pubDate></item><item><title>AGRIBUSINESS: Good weather, science spur bee comeback</title><link>http://t.love.com/311135189</link><description><![CDATA["This will be a much better honey-producing season," said Bill Oesterlein, deputy Riverside County Agricultural Commissioner. 


Commercial bee colonies have been ravaged in recent years by a mysterious malady called colony collapse disorder. 
Local beekeepers said their colonies are rebuilding this season and they expect banner honey production later this spring. 

]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 3:24:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Bees busier than ever</title><link>http://t.love.com/311115960</link><description><![CDATA[In normal times, David Hackenberg would begin trucking his 20 million honeybees from the almond orchards of California to the orange groves of Florida about now. 


Instead, after a month working the almond blossoms on the West Coast, his exhausted pollinators will get some rest and relaxation in the Georgia woods before the East Coast apple blossoms summon them to work once more next month. 


These are not normal times for bees, or for commercial beekeepers, so Mr. Hackenberg's pollinators will skip the c]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 1:09:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Feature: Gaza farmer escapes war memories in beekeeping</title><link>http://t.love.com/311113030</link><description><![CDATA[Mohammed Shurab, 64, is one of the few successful beekeepers in the besieged Gaza Strip. 
His honey business is the only income supporting his family of seven. 


The high productivity of his beehive farm is due to his 15-year experience in this highly specific activity. 

]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 0:47:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Bee colony removed from a South Austin home</title><link>http://t.love.com/311102131</link><description><![CDATA[A South Austin homeowner called for backup today after a sticky situation with some roommates got out of hand. 


His unruly roommates just wouldn't quit stinging him. 


He called the Round Rock Honey Company to serve an eviction notice to several thousand bees. 

]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:02:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Southern Taiwan carpet bombed with bee droppings</title><link>http://t.love.com/311094831</link><description><![CDATA[Swarms of bees have showered parts of southern Taiwan with their droppings, leading locals to believe aeroplane toilets were being emptied over their homes, authorities said Friday. 


"Bee droppings are harmless to human health but it's very difficult to wash off," Kaohsiung city's environmental protection bureau said in a statement. 


"The bureau can't doing anything about the bees so we urge the public to be careful." 

]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:56:00</pubDate></item><item><title>New York Plants Go To The Movies</title><link>http://t.love.com/311092419</link><description><![CDATA[From "Avatar" to "Lord of the Rings" plants are no strangers to playing big movie roles, but no one's ever shot a film the plants themselves can watch. 
Until now. 
In a New York art gallery, seven house plants have spent the last seven weeks watching "Strange Skies," probably the first travel documentary for a vegetable audience. ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:31:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Experts warn bee attacks could increase</title><link>http://t.love.com/311065318</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://media.fox11az.com/designimages/fox11az_printlogo.jpg"><br>A pest control expert in the Phoenix metropolitan area says prime bee season is just beginning. 


Sage Garvey with Burns Pest Elimination says temperatures of 75 or warmer bring out bee activity. 


Two women out for an evening walk Thursday in Phoenix were attacked by a swarm of bees that also stung a bystander who tried to help the women. 

]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:02:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Butterflies act as a garden's friend</title><link>http://t.love.com/311058373</link><description><![CDATA[It may not look like the first day of spring outside, but spring was in full swing at the Bridgeview Center Saturday. 


The Iowa Horticulture Society Convention offered visitors a taste of spring with vendors giving presentations, tips and useful gardening strategies. 


Kathleen Ziemer, owner of ButterflieZ of Iowa, presented the importance and benefit of butterflies in your garden. 

]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:21:00</pubDate></item><item><title>China buzzing over ancient sting therapy</title><link>http://t.love.com/311042087</link><description><![CDATA[It might not be much fun - but an ancient therapy which involves bees stinging patients to cure their ailments is causing a buzz in China. 


Doctors at a traditional Chinese medical clinic in northeast Beijing say the therapy has been proved effective in curing bone and joint diseases, as well as other problems. 


When the patient is ready, the doctor uses tweezers to pick up bees one by one and places them on the acupoint of the suffering joint. 

]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:31:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Adopt a hive, beekeepers urge.</title><link>http://t.love.com/310978691</link><description><![CDATA[The new campaign by the British Beekeepers' Association's (BBKA) places the honeybee alongside tigers and orang-utans in a list of animals which can be "adopted" in a bid to help reverse declining numbers. 


The organisation's first public fund-raising campaign in its 136-year history aims to generate money for research into the health of the bees and support training for beekeepers. 


The scheme, which allows "armchair beekeepers" to follow the fortunes of a network of beekeepers' hives around the UK onl]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 8:53:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Honey we shrunk we our blue-shoed designer for 20K</title><link>http://t.love.com/310962060</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs070.snc3/13758_193249987336_627682336_3487380_304280_n.jpg"><br>As is obvious the check is life size and the leprechauns from St Paddy's this week shrunk Seth's skull (and body) to make it look authentic. 


The tri-colored hexagonal donut which was a design language that Emily started, to show the iterative influences of Business, Experience and Technology (BXT) has been carried through. 
Clearly the winning team will have to decide between checking in their check or carrying it on while they fly back to the east coast. 

 ]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 6:57:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Helping the bees — 03/20/10</title><link>http://t.love.com/310955396</link><description><![CDATA[On its own, a bill signed into law Thursday by Gov. Steve Beshear will do little to repair the environmental damage caused by mountaintop removal mining, but that is not the main intent of the measure that will require mining companies to plant native flowering plants on the mountaintops defoliated by mining. 
Instead, it is hoped the flowering plants will help restore this region's honeybee population. 


But Beshear said he signed the legislation into law "because I support efforts to replenish the natura]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 6:04:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Southern Taiwan carpet bombed with bee droppings</title><link>http://t.love.com/310948630</link><description><![CDATA[SWARMS of bees have showered parts of southern Taiwan with their droppings, leading locals to believe plane toilets were being emptied over their homes, authorities said today. 


"Bee droppings are harmless to human health but it's very difficult to wash off," Kaohsiung city's environmental protection bureau said. 


"The bureau can't doing anything about the bees so we urge the public to be careful." 

]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 5:13:00</pubDate></item><item><title>M-R's Gillen headed to St. Ambrose to be a Queen Bee</title><link>http://t.love.com/310890116</link><description><![CDATA[Monmouth-Roseville's Rebecca Gillen once again did something no other player has done under the tenure of Titans' volleyball coach Robin Bell. 

Gillen signed a letter-of-intent Friday afternoon to play volleyball at St. Ambrose of the Quad Cities. 
Thus, Gillen became the first player to sign at a four year school under Bell's tutelage. 


She said she hopes to complete school and work in the Chicagoland area where she can take advantage of the cultural opportunities and experience Lake Michigan. 

]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:49:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Firm fined $78,000 after beekeeper killed on quad bike</title><link>http://t.love.com/310883814</link><description><![CDATA[A Bay of Plenty honey company which sent a novice worker on a quad bike without a helmet has been fined $78,000 after the man's death. 


The man's family will get $60,000 of the fine. 


The 21-year-old Wellington man died in hospital after being flown from the road where he overturned the quad bike on August 19, 2008. 

]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:01:00</pubDate></item><item><title>A problem that just won't buzz off</title><link>http://t.love.com/310881995</link><description><![CDATA[After being stung by complaints, Taiwan officials have traced the mysterious yellow gunk that has splattered cars and laundry for weeks to a seasonal influx of bees, and their droppings. 


Bees attracted to farms and plant nurseries near the densely populated city of Kaohsiung have smothered a neighborhood with their droppings since February, irritating residents who could not figure out where the mess was coming from. 


Chen Kung-fu, a vice section chief with the municipal environmental protection unit, ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:48:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Bee Season Is Here, Experts Say</title><link>http://t.love.com/310876417</link><description><![CDATA[Bees are a big problem acorss the Valley and this year could be one of the worst ever, according to pest professionals. 


John Schmidt discovered a bee hive behind his north Phoenix home Friday morning. 


"It seems like every year we see more and more bees," Schmidt said. ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:24:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Chinese Stung By Ancient Bee Therapy</title><link>http://t.love.com/310872493</link><description><![CDATA[An ancient therapy which involves bees stinging patients to cure their ailments is causing a buzz in China. 


Doctors at a traditional Chinese medical clinic in northeast Beijing say the therapy has been proved effective in curing bone and joint diseases, as well as other problems. 


The bee therapy dates back over 3,000 years in China, though it was only officially authorized as a legal medical service in 2007. 

]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:53:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Springtime, blossom by blossom - soon?</title><link>http://t.love.com/310872351</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://roffers.guim.co.uk/mall/GOTimscris/customerimages/products/t_2729.jpg"><br>For Britain's wildlife these past months have been near catastrophic. 
From the smallest kingfisher going hungry because of iced-over streams to our largest mammal, the red deer, starving in Scotland's snow, the prolonged subzero temperatures have devastated populations. 
It has been little better for farmers, still waiting for the grass to start to grow again, and beekeepers who are anxiously watching for signs of life: two years ago, a third of hives perished over the winter. ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:52:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Local Honey Proven to Fight Allergies</title><link>http://t.love.com/310870930</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://kion.images.worldnow.com/images/static/hdr/hdr_branding.jpg"><br>The sunny and warm forecast called it, and the recent soaking set the stage. 
Now in the middle of march we're at the highest allergy levels of the season and thousands including Central Coasts morning news anchor Jasmine Viel can't shake off the sniffles. 


"I didn't think I had allergies until all of the sudden my eye starts itching my nose starts running and I think I have the cold but it's not….it's allergies, says Viel. But before rushing to the medicine cabinet hear the latest buzz on a surprising al]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:43:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Bee Attacks: 2 Phoenix Women In Critical Condition After Swarm Attacks</title><link>http://t.love.com/310853647</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/150644/thumbs/s-AMBULANCE-large.jpg"><br>Two women in Phoenix are in critical condition with hundreds of bee stings after a swarm attacked them while they were out for an evening walk. 


A witness tells KTVK-TV she heard screaming Thursday evening and saw the women lying in the street covered in bees from head to toe. 
A man jumped in to help and was also stung. 

]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:07:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Two Women Critically Hurt in Bee Attack</title><link>http://t.love.com/310807196</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2010/03/19/image6315275g.jpg"><br>Another man who rushed in to help also got attacked, but not before getting hold of a fire extinguisher, which he passed on to Garcia. 


"They looked like that guy in the Guinness Book of World Records. They were just covered head to toe -- no skin exposed, their faces weren't exposed, their clothes weren't exposed, the bees were in their hair - they were just completely covered," said Garcia. 


Garcia said he was attacked himself after he started spraying the extinguisher at the two women. 

]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:25:00</pubDate></item><item><title>SPECIAL SPELLERS: Brothers - Spelling is in their blood</title><link>http://t.love.com/310795317</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://images.townnews.com/fltimes.com/content/articles/2010/03/19/news/doc4ba3a4fb0668a719709802.jpg"><br>Brothers Thomas and Liam Schmitt, eighth- and sixth-graders respectively at Geneva Middle School, have been competing in district spelling bees since they were old enough. 
Over the last few years, at least one of them has made it to the regional bee. 


The boys were in the Geneva spelling bee two years ago and went head-to-head against each other, with Thomas taking first and Liam second. ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:42:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Bees extracted from downtown apartment</title><link>http://t.love.com/310794076</link><description><![CDATA[A woman police think robbed the Sovereign Bank on Opossumtown Pike was caught three hours after she fled. 


Ebony Latish Green, 25, was arrested outside of her Heather Ridge Drive home about 7:20 p.m. 
Wednesday, according to the Frederick Police Department. 

]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:36:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Exotic flowers help bees stay busy in winter</title><link>http://t.love.com/310725836</link><description><![CDATA[Recent years have seen an unusual rise in the number of bees about in the cold winter months, and scientists are now beginning to find out why. 


While most bees are hibernating, the buff-tailed bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, is out taking advantage of exotic winter-flowering plants in our gardens and parks, according to scientists from Queen Mary, University of London. 


The study, published in the journal PLoS One, suggests this unique species raises an extra generation of workers to collect nectar from ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:01:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Nature’s Sugar….straight from the hive</title><link>http://t.love.com/310713626</link><description><![CDATA[Pooh bear loves it. 
It can boost energy. 
It is an endearment for someone we love. ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:28:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Bee-lieve it! I was bitten in the line of duty!</title><link>http://t.love.com/310543316</link><description><![CDATA[I went to Fort Greene on Wednesday afternoon to interview apiarist John Howe about the city's stunning legalization of beekeeping. 


I figured I'd get the quotes, eat some honey and be back at my keyboard in half an hour. 


Instead, I got was a bee sting — and this story. 

]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 0:58:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Tears turn to joy for Honey Creek</title><link>http://t.love.com/310534645</link><description><![CDATA[Starting with the last minute of regulation time Thursday night at Terre Haute South, Honey Creek's Alexis Higgins had several tearful moments as the Vigo County eighth-grade girls basketball championship was decided. 


But her last ones were tears of pure joy after the Bees' slender guard returned from an ugly injury to dominate the overtime defensively and help her team to a 44-40 victory over Otter Creek. 


It wasn't looking promising for either Honey Creek or Higgins with 53 seconds left, when the Ott]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 0:01:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Insect Sperm Battle Inside Colony Queens</title><link>http://t.love.com/310518994</link><description><![CDATA[According to New Scientist , researchers at the University of Western Australia report that a male's seminal fluid is like a poison to sperm belonging to another--leading to a microscopic battle to determine who has the top-sperm, all from within the queen. 
In one experiment, researchers observed over half the sperm of one male killed by the seminal fluid of rival in a matter of minutes. 


Boris Baer, who spearheaded the study, explains the findings: 

The males seemed to use the seminal fluid to harm the]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:31:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Offender bees identified, police look for plotters</title><link>http://t.love.com/310406355</link><description><![CDATA[Lucknow police have claimed to have identified the bees that attacked the Bahujan Samaj Party rally here on Monday and got closer to the people who triggered the attack. 


The rally also showcased BSP boss and Chief Minister Mayawati's Dalit constituency and attracted publicity for a multi-crore garland that Mayawati's followers had gifted her. 


On Wednesday night, the police lodged a first information report against unknown persons for lighting a fire in the bushes on the campus of Babasaheb Bhimrao Amb]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:31:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Bees see super colour at super speed</title><link>http://t.love.com/310361945</link><description><![CDATA[Bees see the world almost five times faster than humans, according to new research from scientists at Queen Mary, University of London. 


This gives bumblebees the fastest colour vision of all animals, allowing them to easily navigate shady bushes to find food, write Dr Peter Skorupski and Prof Lars Chittka in the Journal of Neuroscience. 


The ability to see at high speed is common in fast-flying insects; allowing them to escape predators and catch their mates mid-air. ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:29:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Zoom and Pan: Lady Gaga's Telephone Video</title><link>http://t.love.com/310321820</link><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.eatmedaily.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/gaga6.jpg"><br>Welcome to Zoom and Pan, Eat Me Daily's food n' film column. 
Each week, Soleil Ho of Heavy Table will tear apart a food-centric movie scene and, with luck, decipher the meaning behind all the food porn. 
This week: Lady Gaga's Telephone Video. 

]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:49:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Tyler Fletcher wins EWG spelling bee</title><link>http://t.love.com/310300244</link><description><![CDATA[Taylor Fletcher didn't struggle too much when he was asked to spell "diagonally" during the Exeter West Greenwich Spelling Bee on Jan. 20. 


Successfully spelling that word resulted in 14- year-old Fletcher taking home the first place trophy, which stands taller than any of the shelves in his room. 
The height of the trophy forces him to keep it in his living room for all to admire. 

]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:49:00</pubDate></item><item><title>FIR lodged in 'bee attack' at Mayawati's rally case</title><link>http://t.love.com/310247506</link><description><![CDATA[After UP Chief Minister Mayawati saw a conspiracy in bees invading the stage when she was holding forth at her party rally here on Monday, an FIR has been lodged by police to probe who lit the fire that disturbed the beehive and what was the intention. 


Deputy Inspector General of Police Rajiv Krishna, who is probing into the bee invasion incident, said that prima facie it had been revealed that the bees swarmed Ramabai Ambedkar rally ground during Mayawati's address after being disturbed by smoke. 


"In]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 8:18:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Getting robots to play together</title><link>http://t.love.com/310205572</link><description><![CDATA[Nagpal is also part of a group working on creating a colony of robotic bees, an effort that received a $10 million economic stimulus grant last year from the National Science Foundation. 
The ultimate goal of the project is to create robotic bees that mimic those in nature — a colony that could pollinate crops, emulating bees' ability to hover, fly from flower to flower, and work with others to scout or forage. 
The technology will require scientists to develop tiny, lightweight sensors and advanced compute]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 6:01:00</pubDate></item><item><title>FIR lodged in bee incident</title><link>http://t.love.com/310197224</link><description><![CDATA[An FIR has been lodged by the police into the incident in which a swarm of bees invaded the venue of BSP maha rally in Lucknow on Monday, police said in Lucknow on Thursday. 


"The FIR was lodged against unidentified persons last night by a sub-inspector of police at Ashiyana police station under various sections of IPC relating to lighting fire to cause damage," they said. 


A swarm of bees had appeared over Ramabai Ambedkar ground during BSP's maharally when Chief Minister Mayawati was addressing party ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 5:30:00</pubDate></item><item><title>Bee conspiracy: Cops lodge FIR against unidentified persons</title><link>http://t.love.com/310177638</link><description><![CDATA[An FIR has been lodged by the police into the incident in which a swarm of bees invaded the venue of the Bahujan Samaj Party's 'maharally' in Lucknow [ Images ] on Monday, the police said on Thursday. 


"The FIR was lodged against unidentified persons on Wednesday night by a sub-inspector of police at Ashiyana police station, under various sections of the Indian Penal Code related to lighting fire to cause damage," said the police. 


A swarm of bees had appeared over the Ramabai Ambedkar ground during BSP]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 4:21:00</pubDate></item><item><title>The Bee's Knees</title><link>http://t.love.com/310169546</link><description><![CDATA[Upon first hearing the group's name, people might wonder if The Beehive Design Collective is a spinoff of the band, Animal Collective, or perhaps some kind of homage to the popular bouffant hairdo of the 60s. 


The Beehive Design Collective does not create experimental alternative rock, nor does it pay tribute to any hairstyle infamously worn by Amy Winehouse. 


Created in 2000, the Beehive Design Collective is a 100 percent volunteer, non-profit political group from eastern Maine that creates custom ston]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 3:44:00</pubDate></item><item><title>To bee or not to bee</title><link>http://t.love.com/310137892</link><description><![CDATA[The city Health Department strives vig ilantly to keep New Yorkers safe from cigarettes, trans-fats, salt, calories, unprotected sex and -- well, you name it, and the health commissioner's there. 


So how did the bees get off the hook? 


The department's board -- the policy-making panel that does whatever Mayor Mike tells it to do -- voted Tuesday to un -ban something: the keeping of hives of Apis mellifera , the common honey bee, within city limits. 

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