New Israeli Honey Bees prefer other hives' larders
Tel Aviv - Israeli scientists announced the patenting of a new strain of honey bee which shows exceptional resistance to Colony Collapse Disorder, a phenomena which causes worker bees to fail to return to their hives leading to the death of the colony.
The new strain, named the Ziobee, shows the exceptional ability to swarm into other hives and displace the original queen and her workers.
They also have a unique strategy for infiltrating nearby hives undetected to carry their honey and royal jelly off until the host hive weakens and fails over time, leaving that hive available for swarming colonization.
The Ziobee strain shows marginal interest in gathering honey from flowers, preferring other colonies' larders instead.
Israeli Apiary Institute spokesman Abe Buzowitz said "Since the unfortunate discovery that Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV) is associated with CCD, our Institute has worked tirelessly to find a strain that would replace existing colonies with smarter, hardier stock. We think the Ziobee is that chosen strain."
The new strain was created by hybridizing aggressive African bees with European bees and then introducing genes from the Black Sea tick, and the Spanish banana slug.
Truly ingenious!
Wonder where they have got that amazing idea from?
Another victory for Israeli science!
Since i am a bit dense when it comes to HTML, i was wondering if someone would be kind enough to reply to this with the HTML figures needed to paste jpeg images onto this site?
Sorry that this was not a reply to your excellent article, which gave me a few laughs.
Good work.
The code is...
Put the images on an image hosting service such as Photobucket and take it from there.
The syntax for images is (exactly)
<img rel="lightbox" src="The image address">
The quotes are critical.
Example:
<img rel="lightbox" src="http://static.flickr.com/119/305386566_259445bbca_m.jpg">
gives you
The image code I put in the last message was interpreted as a real image... naturally enough. It is too early in the morning and the coffee hasn't kicked in yet. Anyway, host the images somewhere like Photobucket and copy the image code provided on the Photobucket site to your comment or blog entry.
Clay, I never use quotes in my hyperlinks or img src='s and they come out fine.
That's done without quotations.
What's your trick for getting the code to show up without it converting to an image?
I learn something every day!
I think that this editor "implies" the quotes into any web address it recognizes as such. That is why pasting an address into text shows it high lighted.
Not all editors do that. I learned on old school style.
use the command (Without the spaces between)
& lt ;
to display rather than execute <
and
& gt ;
to display rather than execute >
<img src=http://geno.com.sapo.pt/TheZionistMonkey_net.jpg>
Handy, thanks bro. I learn something new every day too.
I think you're right about certain sites 'implying' the quotations into the hyperlink or image code, because when you highlight an area that includes an image or a hyperlink that you created without quotations and then view the source code, the quotations are invariably there.
How fitting, that the new bee prefers other hives' larders. I'd also speculate that this new Ziobee makes others' lives harder.
"The ziobees have the curious habit of draining the fluids from the larvae of other colonies each spring, then mixing the fluid with pollen and rolling it into small balls" according to an anonymous source.
When asked about the potentially devastating ecological consequences of the Ziobee's tendency to demolish the hives of it's native neighbour, the Palestinian Paper Wasp, Israeli Apiary Institute spokesman Abe Buzowitz said "Well yes, we did ask Ariel Sharon to keep his hair-net on during the gene-splicing procedure, but if the Paper Wasps don't like it, there's plenty of room in Jordan".