SF News Sacramento Area Man Arrested In $900K Bee Heist Bees are big business, especially as their numbers are dwindling and their colonies are threatened by various toxins. And since a lot of farmers around California, especially almond growers, now pay big bucks
SF News Swarm Of Africanized 'Killer' Bees Terrorizes Concord Neighborhood A swarm of highly aggressive bees has taken over part of a neighborhood in Concord, and starting Friday, residents began calling police to report being attacked or stung. So far, the bees have
SF News New Study Suggests Bee Colony Collapses Triggered By Fungicides As we've all been hearing for several years, honeybee populations in the U.S. and Europe are dwindling due to what's called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), and scientists and farmers have been at
SF News Vacaville School Terrorized By Huge Swarm Of Bees Did you know it's swarming season for bees right now?!?! Those of us who don't live in the country maybe don't have to worry quite so much, but with all the various rooftop
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, at the Chronicle Building... Treehugger scribe and occasional SFist contributor Jerry James Stone and Meredith May kick in atop the Chronicle Building at Fifth and Mission and frolic with the bees. Sweet.
misc What Would You Name the Chronicle's Artisan Honey? In an Inside Scoop post today, Chronicle food critic and man-of-impeccable-taste, Michael Bauer proves he's only in it for the honey. In a partnership with the Marin Bee Company and the paper's Home
misc Photo du Jour 675 Picture taken outside Hayes Valley Farms. Earlier this week, the farm lost over 200,000 bees after someone doused pesticide over several colonies.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Meet the Bees (Some of Them Now Dead) of Hayes Valley Farm Yesterday, Haighteration broke news that someone had used pesticide to kill tens of thousands of bees at the Hayes Valley Farm sometime between Monday July 19 and Tuesday July 20. The culprit(s)
misc Will Fetch Your Swarm of Bees Spider Monkey found this cute flyer in West Berkeley and sent it to us via the SFist Contribute page. We wonder if they'd come all the way to the Mission for a swarm
SF News Swarm of Bees Attacks the Mission Holy smokes, this is the most harrowing thing we've ever reported. Allan Hough over at Mission Mission reports (via Inhabitat's Mike Chino) that bees have descended upon the Mission district. And they're out
SF News Swarm of Bees Snarls Highway 99 In Sacramento Beekeepers had to be called in to "wrangle" the insects back into their crates and back on the truck. The highway has since reopened. (Shudder.)
