Insects

Extreme Honeybee Losses Could Threaten U.S. Food Supply

Pesticides, drought, and a dwindling food supply -- just some of the possible reasons for the loss of nearly one-third of the country's honeybee colonies last winter. Living in Arizona, where Africanized honeybees recently stung a man to death, we might be inclined to celebrate. See also: - Emily ... More >>

Insects Are an Untapped Source of Food and Could Help End Hunger, According to U.N. Report

Eating bugs to solve world hunger? It might sound a little dramatic (can't we just, like, grow more crops or something?!), but a new report by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations suggests just that. See also: - Five Freaky Fair Foods: Maggot Melt Sandwich, Deep-Fried Energ ... More >>

Emily Brown, Arizona's "Queen Bee," Talks Honey

Come over here, honey, and let's get to know each other. Whether you like the sticky stuff in your tea, yogurt, or on a peanut butter sandwich, you should appreciate where it comes from. For some insight, we turned to Emily Brown, a.k.a. "AZ Queen Bee." She makes honey and honey products, and sh ... More >>

GROWHOUSE Harvests Honey From Its Own Hive -- Sweet!

Kenny Barrett -- co-founder of GROWHOUSE and programs manager for Roosevelt Row -- is knee-deep in honey. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but he's surely got enough of it to sell, thanks to the hard-working honeybees living behind GROWop, the vintage boutique that shares a formerly blighted, quarter- ... More >>

Camelback Mountain Hiker Dies After Fall During Bee Attack, Two Others Stung 300 Times Each; Off Main Trail on Climbing Route

Three Camelback hikers who decided to take a side route up a climbing trail encountered a swarm of bees on Monday afternoon, and one man died after falling 150 feet. The other two men were stung about 300 times each, says Captain Scott McDonald, Phoenix Fire Department spokesman. A beautiful, fall ... More >>

Joshua Ruzsa, 19, Identified as Victim of Fatal Fall in Camelback Bee Attack

Phoenix police have identified Joshua Ruzsa, 19, as the victim in a fatal fall that was the result of bee attack yesterday at Camelback Mountain. Ruzsa's Facebook site says he was a 2011 graduate of the E-Institute in Surprise, attended Glendale Community College and was preparing to enter U.S. Mar ... More >>

Camelback Mountain Bees on the Attack: Several Hikers Treated

Those pesky bees at Camelback Mountain attacked several hikers this afternoon, causing at least one person to become injured in a fall, authorities say. "A bunch of hikers were getting attacked," says Captain Scott McDonald, Phoenix Fire Department spokesman, who was still gathering info at the mou ... More >>

Bees Eat M&Ms, Make Multi-Colored Honey

The BBC is reporting that there are bees in France that are literally puking rainbows into their honey combs. Apparently the bees found their way into the M&M factory's refuse and gorged on multi-colored sugary dyes. Sure, that's news but the bigger story that the lamestream media is missing is that ... More >>

Watch Chefs From the World's Best Restaurant Collect Ants

Live bugs aren't generally considered high cuisine. But if they're live bugs foraged for a restaurant that was voted best restaurant in the world, we suppose someone must be on to something. Noma is a restaurant in Denmark which specializes in what can only be described as modern Nordic cuisine. A s ... More >>

All Your Phoenix Fall Gardening Questions Answered by Tomato Pro Suzanne Vilardi

Today we're introducing a new feature on Chow Bella, Now Growing, in which Kate Crowley talks to local gardeners about what's in the ground at the moment. Have a topic you'd like to see covered? Leave word in the comments section. See Also: - Phoenix Gets Its First Seed Library - Urban Farming 101 ... More >>

Straight Buggin'

The Health Foodie Ups The Ante For Local Honey Sourcing

Shelby Moore Zach Funke holding a jar of what appears to be honey, but is actually an elixir based from chamomile tea given to the bees.​Honey bees are one of nature's best examples of keeping it local. Most bees travel no more than two miles to pollenate, and are even more perfectly conte ... More >>

Feel the Migration

Get jazzed about the great outdoors

Camelback Mountain Bees Nail Rock Climbers on Hart Route -- Again

This warning was posted at a local rock gym last year.​ Saturday's bee attack on Camelback Mountain occurred on Hart Route, the notorious spot where a climber died six years ago in a similar incident, a fire department official confirmed today.Several news outlets covered the story over the we ... More >>

"Vanishing of the Bees" Documentary Opens Saturday in Tempe

Carol Blonder Bee on coneflower​There's actually a name (and even an acronym!) for the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee population: Colony Collapse Disorder or CCD. The problem for the honeybee and the crops we depend on the bees to pollinate (one third of all food crops globall ... More >>

Rock Climber Hung Around for Bee Attack on Mt. Lemmon -- Literally

Image: Mountain Project/Paul Crowder Hairpin Turn (Left Hand Wall) at Mount Lemmon is a wonderful place to go rock climbing -- as long as you pack your bee suit.​One of the best, if not only, defense against an attack of swarming killer bees is to run away. But you can't do that when  ... More >>

ILLEGAL Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone (Chapter 6)

Flier of the Week: Honey Pistol at Long Wong's

​You can't help but feel a little dirty when looking at this flier for Honey Pistol's show at Long Wong's this Saturday, April 10.Ladybugs are supposed to be pretty and sweet--not insects you'd expect to see banging each other. But hey, at least they're doing it on a flower, and that does make it ... More >>

National Geographic Live! Speaker Series: Mark Moffett

Arizona Universities Given Nearly $1 Million in Federal Stimulus Money to Study "Division of Labor in Ant Colonies," and John McCain Ain't Happy

www.alwayzfun.blogspot​Republican senators submitted a report to Congress yesterday outlining billions of dollars of useless or stupid spending in the Obama stimulus plan.What do we mean by useless or stupid? How about $100,000 for a puppet show in Minnesota or a $2 million replica rail ... More >>

Royal Engagement

The monarchs return to DBG

Bees Strike Again: Man Stung Severely Just Hours After Attack on Elderly Woman

​Run and hide! The Phoenix bee invasion has claimed yet another victim.Just hours after an 81-year-old woman was attacked yesterday by a swarm of Africanized bees near 33rd Avenue, south of Cactus Road, a 72-year-old man, on the other side of town, was also attacked.Phoenix Fire Department off ... More >>

"Bee" Careful: That's What the Phoenix Fire Department's Telling Us After Latest Bee Attack Leaves Elderly Woman Hospitalized

​Remember when bees were nice? Sure there was an occasional sting here and there, but they never seemed to be out for blood like these Africanized monsters we have today.An 81-year-old Phoenix woman is the latest victim of the implacable insect, after she was found on her porch near 33rd Avenu ... More >>

Plan Bee

Artist sounds a cautionary note about plight of the honeydrippers

"Beeswane: Lisa Corine von Koch"

Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams

No Love for the Lichen: Feds Reject Plans to Protect Numerous Southwestern Species

Arizona tiger moths like the one to the left -- and hundreds of other Southwestern critters -- don't need to be added to the endangered species list, the feds have ruled.True, the list of species submitted for possible protection includes many that might make you want to reach for a can of Raid: pse ... More >>

Burn Notice

Check out the hottest show in town

Gross Out: Roaches at the Scottsdale Haagen Dazs

Pickles in Paradise

Sensei Says

Bee Season

Waxing artistic

Hood Wink

Using their noodle

Josef K

Entomology
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Ant Wussy

Get out the magnifying glass. It's time to burn a game

Ant Farm

The death of tiny Autumn White should make lawmakers think more carefully about state budget cuts

Best Place To Confront Entomophobia

Katydid Insect Museum

Swarming Trend

State's buzz on killer bees? Learn to live with 'em.

Insect Aside

Tempe kept quiet about encephalitis-carrying mosquitoes, and the resulting pesticide applications

Winged Victory

Fascinating A Bug's Life is lousy with laughs

Second Helpings

Workers' Compensation

Antz: A way underground film with a cast of millions!

Bug Tussle

Flyweight Mimic offers an embarrassment of roaches

Insects in Cinema

OF THEE I STING

THERE ARE 34 SPECIES OF SCORPIONS IN ARIZONA. ONE OF THEM IS IN YOUR SHOE.

PLANETS OF THE APERS?THEY SOUND FAMILIAR, BUT RAPPERS' ORBIT BY MILES

ATTACK OF THE SAGACIOUS ANTS

FIFTY WAYS TO LEAVE YOUR LARVAE

EASE PESTICIDE BUGABOO WITH ALTERNATIVES--IF THE SHOO FITS