Guilfordbeekeepers.org

Honeybees are being threatened by tiny flies that lead them to lurch and stagger around like zombies.
The afflicted bees often make uncharacteristic night flights, sometimes buzzing around porch lights before dying.

http://www.wwaytv3.com/2015/10/09/the-buzzing-dead/

I saw it in the paper also
http://www.thetimesnews.com/article/201 ... /150918954

The NC General Assembly followed through with restricting cities and counties from regulating beekeepers with five or fewer hives. An earlier article is here: http://capitaltonightnc.twcnews.com/2015/03/19/nc-legislature-considers-beekeeping-bill/ The bill is here: http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015...

I echo your thoughts as these are most difficult to locate.

I wonder if this is the same ?
http://greensboro.craigslist.org/grd/4972506668.html

Hive rentals are running about $75-85 this season ?

If we did not have them around, you would not be able to more most of the produce found in the grocery stores and farmer's markets.

http://www.wect.com/story/28405086/hone ... production

Interesting short article / video on alfalfa leaf cutting bees. While these bees do not produce colonies or store honey they are excellent pollinators of alfalfa and vegetables. Video: http://www.weather.com/video/bees-recycle-plastic-in-hives-45461?collid=/news/science/nature or read it here: http:...

If the foraging bees are unable to find nectar, the entire hive will suffer for a lack of food -- as will the plants that depend on pollination to reproduce. "And without efficient, effective pollination, there are going to be consequences for human health," says Newman. http://www.abc.net...

Larry Goodwin was driving a tractor and apparently hit a pile of wood containing a discarded chicken coop that concealed a year-old hive of Africanized bees, said Allen Miller, owner of Bees Be Gone, who was called to remove the hive. Miller said he destroyed the hive, which contained 22 honeycombs ...

Federal officials say there are a number of factors that lead to colony collapse, and there is no direct link between that and insecticides. But a new Harvard study says there is, especially with one particular pesticide called imidacloprid. The pesticide is part of a class called neonicotinoids, wh...

A great article that provides an insight to a possible resolution to a worldwide epidemic.
Over $40 billion dollars has been spent to find a cure only to discover is was buzzing about their heads the entire time.

A new study shows that the naturally caffeine-laced nectar of some plants enhances the learning process for bees, so that they are more likely to return to those flowers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/scien ... .html?_r=0