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2 dogs die after being swarmed by hundreds of bees at South Texas home, report says
Read full article: 2 dogs die after being swarmed by hundreds of bees at South Texas home, report saysA highly unusual bee attack claimed the lives of two pet dogs at a South Texas home late last week, according to a report from Valley Central.
Meet a Castroville teen beekeeper who is owner of his own business, BeeSpace
Read full article: Meet a Castroville teen beekeeper who is owner of his own business, BeeSpaceCASTROVILLE, Texas ā A Castroville teen has taken what originally started as an interest and turned it into a full-fledged and successful business operation. āI had found some old boxes my grandfather used to keep bees back in the 1980s,ā 16-year-old Trent Anderson, owner of BeeSpace explains. The interest then turned into full-fledged beekeeping, bee removal and a honey business, called BeeSpace. āThere are a lot of foods that rely on bees,ā Trent said. I donāt think everything will come crashing down, but an ecosystem of just monocultures propagated by farmers, thatās a pretty depressing world.āAdTrent hopes to have 1,000 hives in two years.
This Texas beekeeper helps homeowners, honeybees feel like they bee-long
Read full article: This Texas beekeeper helps homeowners, honeybees feel like they bee-longAll rights reserved)FILE - In this May 20, 2019 file photo, honeybees are shown on a frame at beekeeper Denise Hunsaker's apiary, in Salt Lake City. Erika Thompson, owner and founder of the Austin-based Texas Beeworks, has a pretty unique job. Sure youāve heard of beekeeping, but sheās helping to preserve, protect and increase honeybee populations in Texas. The company works by helping to support the bees with hive removals and hive hostings for residents and businesses. You can hire a beekeeper to place and manage hives on your property registered by the Texas Apiary Inspection Service.
Honeybees use animal poop to fight dreaded murder hornets
Read full article: Honeybees use animal poop to fight dreaded murder hornetsAsian Giant Hornets, commonly known as murder hornets, can wipe out entire hives of honeybees within a matter of hours, but it turns out, honeybees have a pretty ingenious way of fighting back. Spotting of the fecal defense system increases after colonies were exposed to attacks or to chemicals that scout hornets use to target colonies for mass attacks, the study found. Researchers found that colonies with heavy to moderate spotting of poop had a reduced likelihood of being attacked. The researchers say their work shows the first time the honeybees have used other animalsā feces as a defense tool. But researchers said that Western honeybees, the ones found in North America, arenāt as prepared for murder hornet attacks as their counterparts in the east.