Bee (insect)

Like the honey badger, LSU's Tyrann Mathieu doesn't back down

2012-01-05 18:35:00

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For Rosh Hashanah, honey, you have options

2011-09-22 00:00:00

It doesn't matter whether you were born in Brooklyn or Borneo — if you're Jewish you'll probably include honey on your shopping list for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which begins on the evening of Sept. 28. Like most Jewish holidays, Rosh...

Word Play: Where the Wild Things still are

2011-07-03 00:00:00

The idea of caring for the environment seems to be easier to get across to kids than to adults. Many adults just think the world is too complicated. "What difference does one light bulb or one plastic water bottle make in the wide world?" they think. For...

Christmas gift ideas: Makeup, perfume, lotion, candles and bath products

2010-12-12 00:00:00

The holidays are a season of beauty — if the abundance of offerings related to looks is any indication. We've culled the outpouring to bring gift-givers some ideas in a range of prices for a variety of pretty predilections. Don't be surprised if...

Labrador who ate an entire beehive wins pet insurance company's award for oddest claim

2010-08-26 16:34:47

How to grow native plants in containers

2010-09-24 16:34:11

Pasadena gardener becomes a one-woman food bank

2010-10-05 16:33:52

It's a name game with hybrid fruits

2010-07-22 00:00:00

It used to be that a peach was a peach and a plum was a plum, and that was it. Now, however, breeders are coming up with complex hybrids between species, such as fruits that are a combination of peaches, apricots and plums, and cherries or nectarines...

Lilacs, spring's calling card, are in full bloom at Descanso Gardens

2010-04-27 16:33:41

Elephants' newly discovered fear of bees could help prevent run-ins with African farmers

2010-05-05 16:34:09

Handmade gifts fit for a first lady

2009-12-05 00:00:00

Caleb Siemon peered into the gaping glow of the furnace and, with a few careful turns of his blowpipe, deftly gathered a fist-sized blob of molten glass, just as he has thousands of times. His hands, as leathered and cracked as a sunbaked saddle from 10...

Some things he did: A tour of Mark Frauenfelder's DIY utopia

2010-06-02 16:36:11

? Describe your latest book "Splendors and Glooms" is a Victorian melodrama about a boy with nine fingers, a girl who gets kidnapped, a small red dog, a witch, a frozen lake and an evil puppeteer. ? Why write? What makes writing a book worthwhile?

2012-08-07 00:00:00

Palestinian beekeepers inspect hives at an apiary near the central Gaza Strip refugee camp of Bureij. Jihad Abu Shamalah, the Gaza farmer who owns the apiary says his 450 hives produce some 4000 kilos of honey every year and it is sold only in the Gaza Strip.

2012-04-26 00:00:00

Chinese farmer She Ping gets covered with honey bees at his farm, producing honey to supplement their income in southwest China's Chongqing municipality. China's subsidies to farmers grew six-fold to reach 147 billion USD in 2010, with an increasing amount going to propping up farmers' pay.

2012-04-19 00:00:00