Bees

In addition to devastating effects on bee populations and the pollination needed to feed humans and other species, widely-used pesticides chemically related to nicotine may be deadly to birds and linked to some species declines, according to a new study…

With that mentality in mind, Canadian company Bee Vectoring Technologies (BVT) has come up with a deeply strange but also fascinating approach. What if we could use fungus to kill fungus? And what if that first fungus was applied not by humans or machines, bu…

Thousands of pollinators are at risk of extinction. Now, some cities are modifying bylaws to encourage residents to take up backyard beekeeping. And it's working.  In Greater Vancouver, beekeeping schools are reporting increases of 50 per cent or more in be…

In late June and early July, The Wildwood Trust in Kent can have around one million honeybees buzzing around their 28 hives. One million! During her visit to the woodland park, Maddie Moate asks: “What’s the first thing you think about when you see a single b…

The chemical, which is also suspected by some experts to cause cancer inhumans, is to be banned by the end of 2023 when the EU's current approval period for it expires, ministers said. Biologists have sounded the alarm over plummeting insect populations that…

—LONDON, 26 July, 2019 Tomorrows world could be a hungrier world. That is because as large-scale agribusiness gets busier crop diversity diminishes, and the pool of potential pollinators will become increasingly at risk. Those crops that rely on pollination …

Bees can sometimes be annoying and at other times, they could be scary when they get in your face. But they are a natural part of the environment and as one movie illustrated, removing bees can disrupt the dynamics within that environment. Every creature liv…

Reports of similar losses are being flagged by other states that have been experiencing heavy rainfall since June. (Express photo by Bhupendra Rana) Beekeeping in Maharashtra has hit rough waters, with over 500 bee colonies in the state lost due to heavy rai…

A new study provides valuable insights into pollen abundance and diversity available to honeybee colonies employed in five major pollinator-dependent crops in Oregon and California, including California's massive almond industry. The study, a collaboration b…

More than 500 million bees have died in Brazil in the past three months. Since May beekeepers across four of the country's states have reported the insects dying in vast numbers. In the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul alone as many as 400 million bees h…