New female farmers that are part of Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) are embracing beekeeping and agroforestry on land that was previously unproductive and worn out by pesticides and ...
Brazilian part-time beekeeper Luiz Lustosa lifts the lid on a wooden hive. The reaction is instant, and angry, as thousands of bees envelop him in a buzzing cloud. Lustosa wears no specialized suit or ...
Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A man died after being stung by an angry swarm of bees while he was working on a farm in the state of Alto Paranaíba, ...
(Beyond Pesticides, June 8, 2020) Brazil is home to more than 300 native bee species — many of them stingless — that help pollinate the nation’s valuable agricultural crops and provide other important ...
Imidacloprid, one of the pesticides most widely used in Brazil, may be a lethal threat to native bees, according to an article published in the journal Environmental Research. However, owing to the ...
The researchers used native bee honey as an edible solvent to extract stimulants such as theobromine and caffeine, linked to heart health, from cocoa bean shells. The shells are usually discarded ...
In just three months, more than 500 million bees were found dead by beekeepers in four Brazilian states — 400 million in Rio Grande do Sul, 7 million in São Paulo, 50 million in Santa Catarina and 45 ...
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