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On a sunny summer afternoon, research associate Casey Johnson, graduate student Julia Vieira and a cadre of other grad and undergrad students are slowly Why saving bees and other winged pollinating insects should be a public priority, and how you can help.
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A beekeeping course at a minimum security prison in Faribault, Minn., is setting up a potential career path for some inmates. The training includes an outdoor classroom where inmates take care of bees — but the bees are also taking care of the inmates.
Honey bees prefer to live in green areas like gardens, orchards or woodlands. But one of the largest bee labs in the country is right here in the desert at Arizona State University's Polytechnic campus in Mesa.According to Amelie Strange, a Ph.D. candidate at ASU, beekeepers have a great sense of humor.
Researchers are looking at a long-term solution: develop bees that can fend off Varroa themselves.