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Stories about: hive

Genetics Could Prevent the Demise of UK Bees The serious situation of bees in the UK has recently prompted British Beekeepers Association (BBKA) members to demand some $8 million in government funding, to avert the ever-increasing incidence of the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), which threatens all bees in the country. Francis Ratnieks, a scientists and the onl... 10 November 2008 04:16 GMT Different Bee Species Can Learn Each Other's Language Species of honeybees inhabiting the Asian and the European continent are somehow different from each other through the fact that they communicate using different languages. About 30 to 50 million years ago, honeybees split into nine species currently found all over the world and started developing unique communicatio... 10 June 2008 05:00 GMT The Oldest Beehive: 3,000 Years Old! Human taste for honey is millions of years old. Baboons and chimpanzees are known to indulge with honey when they find a bee colony. Cave paintings dated 15,000 years old found in South Africa and India depict honey hunting by Paleolithic people. In Cava D'Arana, discovered in 1919 in Valencia region (Spain), t... 5 September 2007 07:12 GMT