Bees

The 270 million hectares of native vegetation preserved by rural landowners (Legal Reserves and unprotected areas) yield Brazil the equivalent of some U.S. $1.5 trillion per year in ecosystem services, such as crop pollination, pest control, water security, r…

Nakuru County has started lobbying for commercialisation of the queen bee as part of efforts to curb a decline in its population. The county's agriculture department said this on Thursday, adding that there has been a tremendous drop in both the quality and …

Machine Learning Case Study Oracle Analytics Cloud is the foundation for an ambitious project aimed at finding the cause and cures for honeybee population decline. An alarming decline in the global bee population has been making headlines recently and for …

At least two urban Australian parks, Sydney's Centennial Parklands and the Royal Botanic Garden, have beehives but their ''evangelist'', Doug Purdie of the Urban Beehive, tells me they are not signposted so as not to attract too many visitors. He says it took…

Make no doubt about it: it’s now trendy to be the most planet-loving, alternative energy supporting, climate-changing fighting Captain Planet that you can be. And what would being a friend to environment be without sanctimoniously ridiculing those who disagr…

Thirty miles northwest of Los Angeles, the Lemon Hill grove a square mile of rolling slopes covered with healthy young trees, laden with fragrant yellow fruit evokes the Arcadian vistas of classic citrus crate labels. Everything looks familiar, but inside the…

Whenever we talk about the effects of climate change on animal species, the urge is to focus on flagship species like the tiger or the snow leopard. While that is a valid way to look at Earths ongoing ecocide, we often neglect the smallest creatures. Sometime…

LEGO builder The Quinten has submitted a delightful, multi-layer Mechanical Beehive to LEGO Ideas. Projects that earn 10,000 votes are reviewed by LEGO experts for the potential of being produced. The video above provides a peek at the mechanisms that make it…

A group of scientists were trying to see how bees would behave in a Martian environment, and it didn't go as planned. Rawpixel/Reuters The two-week-long research was a part of the Lunares Research Station in Pila, Poland, where they witnessed around 1000 to…

In October 2017, a long-term study by the Entomological Society Krefeld hit like a bomb: Within thirty years, the number of flying insects in Germany was said to have decreased by three quarters.Now a research team led by Sebastian Seibold and Wolfgang Weisse…