2018 Honeybee Swarm Season
Swarm capture at Heathrow airport What are Swarming Honeybees? First and foremost, and as I ask students on my weekly honeybee experience course, what does it mean when bees are…
New pesticides ‘may have risks for bees’
Attempts to find a new generation of pesticides to replace neonicotinoids have been dealt a potential blow. Neonicotinoids are the most commonly used insecticide in the world, but had been…
Canada to phase out crop pesticides linked to bee deaths
WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - The Canadian government said on Wednesday it would move to restrict the use of two types of crop pesticides that have been linked to deaths of…
Heathrow Terminal 5 Honey Day
Another fantastic day at Heathrow, on this occasion we were invited to bring honey and wax into terminal 5 to service T5 staff, honey requirements. What surprised us that the large candles…
Insecticides Could Be Making Bees Less Curious
Shutterstock Neonicotinoid insecticides, which are the most widely used insecticides in the world, have been linked with declining populations of bees. As pollinators, bees play a critical role in ecological networks,…
12 Interesting Facts About Bees
Bees are crucial to the agricultural industry. You may already know that one out of every three bites of food you take is because of their crop pollination, but there…
Save the native bees: Reframing the bee problem
Beginning around 2006, readers of the science news sections of mainstream publications were deluged with stories about the decline of honeybees. Since then, the headlines have been a constant lament:…
Country diary 1918: wonderful nest-building habits of the leafcutter bee
19 July 1918 Clean-edged oblongs and circles cut from leaves are used to build the cells of their nests Leaf-cutter Bee (Megachile willughbiella) cutting a disc from a Birch (Betula) leaf.…
This is why you definitely should NOT leave sugar water out for bees
That Facebook post you've all been sharing? Yeah, it's fake. A Facebook post which claiming to from Sir David Attenborough urging people to leave sugar water out for struggling bees…
A boon for bees as Environment Agency trials pollinator project
The project seeks to provide and protect valuable habitat for bees Mining Bee on a Sunflower - The project seeks to create more habitat for mining bees - like this…
Scientists appeal for honey samples from Scottish beehives
Scientists have issued an appeal for samples of honey from across the north in a bid to better understand the factors which can alter honey yields and the size…
Species shifts in the honey bee microbiome differ with age and hive role
Bacterial changes in the honey bee gut vary with phenotype and biological age. Credit: Agricultural Research Service The makeup of microbial species — the microbiome — in a honey…
David Attenborough’s Facebook post urges us to help save the planet with a simple sugar trick
It takes just seconds to do David Attenborough - Save Bees National treasure and nature documentary presenter, David Attenborough, is a true ambassador for the natural world and helps to raise…
City bumblebees outbreed their country cousins
Urban bumblebees. Bumblebees placed in urban areas produce more offspring than colonies in agricultural areas, concludes a surprising new study. The research, led by academics from Royal Holloway University of…
More than 100,000 bees killed after vandals destroy hives
The damage left behind Photo: Northumbria Police A beekeeper has described vandalism to his beehives as a "disgraceful act". Two hives were smashed up killing more than 100,000 bees.…
