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Remove bees, wasps, or hornets without getting stung

August 14, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

First,  don’t go bugs by Merritt Clifton For years I was the fellow whom people would call for help when they had problems with bees and closely related species. I never had much trouble handling bees,   wasps,  or hornets,  but even though handling them may not be hard,  there is not any one simple […]

Filed Under: Animal rights & welfare, Asian religions, Bees, Beliefs, Buddhism, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Hinduism, Horses & Farmed Animals, Insects, Other, Religion & philosophy, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Merritt Clifton

Birds, bees, broiling heat, & adding insect parts to food on purpose

May 1, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

The bees-at-the-airport disaster story went global––but mass media missed the biggest issues             KENAI,  Alaska––More than 300 Alaskan beekeepers,  most of them fruit and vegetable farmers,  without native honey bees to pollinate introduced food crops,  on April 23,  2022 expected to receive two million bees from Sacramento to help start their short growing season. Soldotna […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Animal organizations, Bees, Chickens, Culture & Animals, Disease, Eggs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Meat issues, Poultry, USA Tagged With: Delta Air Lines, Edward Morgan, Matilde Nuñez del Prado Alanes, Merritt Clifton, Sabine Poux, Sarah McElrea

Israeli vegan honey could leave Russia & Ukraine holding the honey bucket

March 24, 2022 By Merritt Clifton

Lab-produced honey goes into industrial-scale production just as global supply from bees is disrupted by Putin’s War             JERUSALEM, Israel––Regardless of whether Ukraine staves off the Russian invasion or suffers the genocide threatened by Russian use of heavy weapons against civilian targets,  the biggest and perhaps only winner of what is now known worldwide as […]

Filed Under: Asia/Pacific, Bees, China, Culture & Animals, Eastern Europe, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, Horses & Farmed Animals, India, Indian subcontinent, Russia, Ukraine, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Bee-io, Efrat Dvash-Riesenfeld, Merritt Clifton, Offir Dvash, Petro Prokopovych

“Asian murder hornet”: surrogate for COVID-19 terror

May 7, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Or,  how two “great sparrow bees” incited a national hunt for alleged Chinese alien invaders             BLAINE, Washington––How did the Asian giant hornet,  known for centuries in Japan as the “great sparrow bee,”  generally regarded as beneficial to farmers for killing insect pests,  suddenly become feared in the U.S. as the so-called “murder hornet”? After […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Asia/Pacific, Bats, Bees, China, Feature Home Bottom, Feral animals, Food & agriculture, Food & agriculture, India, Indian subcontinent, Insects, Japan, Pacific rim, Southeast Asia, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Don Sweeney, Jack Woodall, Merritt Clifton, Mike Baker, Tam Garland

Obits: defenders of cats, dogs, wild horses, bees, crabs, & elephants

October 22, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Elaine Adair, Dayton Hyde, Susan Rudnicki,  Alana Cutland,  & Matthew Talbot had in common service to animals Elaine Adair Elaine Adair,  cofounder of the Mississippi Spay & Neuter Alliance (MS-SPAN),  born Elaine Girton on October 15, 1950 in Bloomsburg,  Pennsylvania,   died after a long struggle against cancer on October 14, 2019,  one day before what would […]

Filed Under: Advocacy, Africa, Africa, African wildlife, Animal organizations, Animal rights & welfare, Bees, Book & film reviews, Cats, Culture & Animals, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Endangered species, Entertainment, Europe, Feature Home Bottom, Horses, Horses & Farmed Animals, Humane history, Isles, Madagascar, Malawi, Obits & Memorials, Obituaries (human), Poaching & trafficking, Population control, Population control, Religion & philosophy, Rodeo, Spectacles, Sub-Saharan, United Kingdom, USA, Wild horses, Wildlife Tagged With: Alana Cutland, Dayton Hyde, Elaine Adair, Gerda Hyde, Matthew Talbot, Merritt Clifton, Susan Rudnicki

Earth Day dilemma: enviro agencies addicted to deadly chemicals

April 22, 2019 By Merritt Clifton

Catherine de Medici might have considered wildlife poisoning schemes medieval Let me tell you about the birds and bees,  and the cats and the rats,  and the possums and the pigs,  and the chemical-addicted descendants of Catherine de Medici at USDA Wildlife Services,  Threatened Species Strategy of Australia,  and Zero Invasive Predators of New Zealand, […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Animal control, Animal organizations, Asia/Pacific, Australia & New Zealand, Bees, Birds, Conservation, Dog use, Endangered species, Feature Home Bottom, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Habitat, Horses & Farmed Animals, Hunting & trapping, Hunting practices, Killing contests, Laws & politics, Organizations, Politics, USA, Wildlife, Wildlife Tagged With: Catherine de Medici, Jo Pollard, Maggie Barry, Merritt Clifton, Will Harvie

Rising to screams: the buzz on bee-killing neonicotinoids

August 24, 2018 By Merritt Clifton

Canada, Europe act, but Trump administration doesn’t give a flying damn             OTTAWA,  WASHINGTON D.C.––Bees busily harvesting pollen from almost every flowering plant as the summer of 2018 fades seem oblivious to the buzz against neonicotinoid insecticides,  even as the pitch rises to screams everywhere else from down on the farm to courtrooms and the […]

Filed Under: Bees, Canada, Europe, European Union, Feature Home Bottom, Horses & Farmed Animals, Insects, The Americas, Wildlife Tagged With: Alan Bjerga, Claire Asher, Greg Sheehan, Jon Entine, Merritt Clifton, Nathan Donley, Nigel Raine, Robert Arnoason

The Bees, by Laline Paull

June 8, 2014 By Merritt Clifton

HarperCollins Publishers (10 East 53rd St.,  New York,  NY 10022), 2014. 352 pages,  hardcover.  $25.99. Reviewed by Karen Schaefer I’ve just lapped up The Bees,  by Laline Paull,  the latest honey trap in fiction that, to me, purports to be the Watership Down of the honeybee world. While I have some familiarity with hive colony collapse and […]

Filed Under: Bees, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Horses & Farmed Animals Tagged With: Bees, Karen Schaefer

The Beekeeper’s Bible, by Richard A. Jones & Sharon Sweeney-Lynch

April 10, 2011 By Merritt Clifton

  Stewart Tabori & Chang (c/o Abrams,  115 West 18th St.,  New York,  NY  10011),  2011. 412 pages,  hardcover.  $35.00. Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Reputedly living on a diet of milk,  honey,  and locusts,  commonly interpreted to mean locust beans rather than the insects, John the Baptist was for centuries regarded as a proto-vegetarian, beginning […]

Filed Under: Bees, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Food, Horses & Farmed Animals, Vegetarians & vegans Tagged With: Bees, Merritt Clifton

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