Bees

Posted September 18, 2019 06:30:00 Beyond a chain link fence littered with abandoned trolleys, seagulls swoop and ships the size of small cities stacked high with containers dock at Port Melbourne. It's here that Joe Riordan performs his six-weekly ritual…

Whanganui Intermediate students put beeswax from local hives to good use to mark Bee Aware Month. The 60 Year 7 and 8 students made sustainable beeswax food wraps using beeswax from local apiary business, Comvita Kiwi Bee. Comvita Kiwi Bee provided all th…

OPINION: It is a great idea to plant one billion trees to tackle climate change, but they need to be the right kind in the right place. Te Uru Rkau/Forestry NZ estimates that native trees will be 30 per cent of all planting under the government scheme. I ho…

In April 2018, city council passed a motion that, ironically, generated almost no buzz: the declaration of Toronto’s Official Bee. The metallic green sweat bee — Agapostemon virescent is the species name — was chosen for three reasons. One, it’s abundant: of…

Trucks carrying millions of bees and water supplies and forklifts move at night after all the foragers have returned to the hive, so you might not actually see them being moved. Image: courtesy of Ian Zadow The annual spring movement of hives has commenced, …

Each year, from September to mid-October, the tiny and very precious mountain pygmy-possums arise from their months of hibernation under the snow and begin feasting on billions of bogong moths that migrate from Queensland to Victoria's alpine region. But for…

McDonald's in Sweden is helping the country's flagging bee population with bee "hotels" embedded on the back of roadside billboards. The campaign, launched in conjunction with outdoor-advertising giant JC Decaux, debuted this month on the reverse of a north-…

Since 2007, North American honey bees have been disappearing without a trace, in a phenomenon known as Colony Collapse Disorder. In 2010, the U.S. and the U.K. both reported losing a third of their honey bees. One of the largest causes of CCD is the growing c…

Healesville Sanctuary, Werribee Open Range Zoo Each year, from September to mid-October, the tiny and very precious mountain pygmy-possums arise from their months of hibernation under the snow and begin feasting on billions of bogong moths that migrate from Q…

In the wake of widespread declines in bee populations, farmers and beekeepers are wondering who exactly is going to pollinate that third of the world’s food crops which require pollination. The declines have been attributed to pesticides, parasites and climat…