Beekeeping News (11/18/08 - 9:54PM) - More bee mites found in feral hive in Hilo (Honolulu Advertiser)
A large feral beehive was found today by Hawai`i Department of Agriculture staff and about 60 varroa mites were collected from a sample of 5,400 bees from that hive, the Department of Agriculture announced today. (11/18/08) - Denver City Council clears flight path for urban bee enthusiasts (Rocky Mountain News)
Bee enthusiasts were buzzing with joy Monday after the City Council approved a proposal that allows Denver residents to keep honeybees in their backyards. (11/18/08) - After-school pottery fires up Art Club (The Burlington Free Press)
While most of their classmates boarded the buses for home, members of the Tuttle Middle School Art Club fired up for more of what thrills them. (11/18/08) - Honeybee lovers: Make a beeline to Denver (9 News Denver)
DENVER - More bees will soon be buzzing around Denver. Monday night, the Denver City Council passed an ordinance which allows Denver homeowners to keep up to two honeybee hives in their backyards. (11/18/08) - Beekeeping to be topic of Potomac Garden Club talk (The Herald-Mail)
WILLIAMSPORT The Potomac Garden Club meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 12:30 p.m. will be all the "buzzzzz." Gerry Fitzgerald, president of the Beekeepers Association, will present a program on beekeeping. (11/12/08) - Giant insects delight visitors (Times Herald)
Though intimidating, a dead spider the size of your face is not the biggest example of a bug to be found at the Port Huron Museum right now. (11/16/08) - Barker buzzing over beekeeping (Bexhill Today)
Battle MP Greg Barker welcomed seven-year-old beekeeper Guy Whittaker from Robertsbridge to the Houses of Parliament as one of the hundreds of beekeepers who gathered to protest the Government's lack of funding into bee research. (11/11/2008 16:32:41) (11/13/08) - Homegrown chickens are not cost effective (Montgomery Advertiser)
In a manner of speaking, backyard chickens are back in vogue. And there is noth ing wrong in this, providing that the aspiring backyard hobbyist is entirely that -- a hobbyist whose sole interest is raising chickens for the happiness and sense of self-accomplishment they pro vide. (11/16/08) - Children get a chance to check out bugs (Times Herald)
Though intimidating, a dead spider the size of your face is not the biggest example of a bug to be found at the Port Huron Museum right now. That honor may go to “Manny,” the truck-sized robotic praying mantis standing watch by the north door, flexing his spiny arms. (11/15/08) - Briefly, November 15 (Wichita Falls Times Record News)
The Red River Valley Beekeepers Association will have a meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Midwestern State University in Bolin Science Hall, room 209. Now is the time to get hives ready for winter. The meeting will cover tips and tricks for getting honeybees through the cold months. (11/15/08)
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