Honey bees provide 'pollination services' worth billions of dollars to US agriculture. Understanding honey bee populations requires understanding their origins in the Middle East and Africa.
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Under-resourced in an overworked agricultural system, honeybee colonies are gradually failing in most temperate regions.
Over the years bee pollen has grown to be a popular type of supplement due to its high nutritional value. All in all it contains no less than 28 minerals, 27 vitamins and amino acids, 11 enzymes, and 24 fatty acids, but it needs to be processed to break down the cellulose walls that are present in its natural state so that its full nutritional value can be unlocked.
Considering how high in nutrition it is, it should come as no surprise that bee pollen has many notable health benefits. In particular it can help to:
A vibration message formerly understood to be a warning signal to the colony turns out to have another meaning as well.
Scientists have just decoded another bit of honey bee speech, and the newfound "word" the bees are buzzing is "whoop."
The fuzzy pollinators vibrate in the key of the Beatles song "Hey Jude" to make flowers give up their goods.
HOARDING THE GOLD
I found this article by Aine Carlin from the Guardian and got quite annoyed with it – normally I’m pretty laid back about things but found this misleading, especially as it’s an article in a British paper written for a British readership about supposedly British practices. Inspired to write an ‘angry’ reply I scrolled down and found someone had posted what was effectively my interpretation of the article too.