Bees

A BEE conservation organisation in Northwich have teamed up with a national wholesaler to boost the number of hives across Cheshire. Bees in Our Community was set up in 2016, offering the free and ongoing loan of beehives and honeybees to home and landowners…

Honey bees are some of the most industrious insects on the planet. With pollination, responsible for various crop yields and floral reproduction, they sustain large portions of the food market. Some bees even work themselves to deathMental Floss reports tha…

For more than a decade, the bee population has been dying at an alarming pace in the United States and around the world. Bee colonies have been dying off at an average rate of 29% each year since 2006. Lastyear was particularly deadly, with 38% of the bee pop…

Bug zappers kill bugs by the thousands. But theres a problem: They kill the wrong bugs. They are ineffective against mosquitoes and other biting flies, and their otherwise indiscriminate killing can reduce songbird populations, disrupt pollination, and genera…

When the majority of a colony's worker bees disappear and leave behind the queen, baby bees, and lots of food, that's called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). The mysterious phenomenon has caused enormous bee losses since at least 2006. Researchers have iden…

Project goal: Protecting pollinators Project duration: June 2017 to May 2022 Project partners: The German Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)…

SACRAMENTO, CALIF.—All across California’s hot, flat Central Valley, the almond trees wait. Their gnarled branches are heavy with dusty green almond hulls, fuzzy to the touch. In two weeks’ time, the hulls will split, revealing the porous, caramel-coloured s…

AgriculturePublished on August 12th, 2019 | by Carolyn Fortuna 0 August 12th, 2019 by Carolyn Fortuna  The US Department of Agriculture has announced that it will no longer track honeybee populations or collect data for its Honey Bee Colonies Report. Dat…

Bees around the world are in danger. In the United States alone, beekeepers lose over 50 percent of the colonies annually. According to the specialists, this phenomenon has increased in 2006, and the main cause of the disease and, subsequently, of the death o…

The buzz of bees is the soundtrack of summer and spring, like the hum of a lawnmower or the soothing cadence of a sprinkler. Bees zip by your ear, hover over food at picnics, and they can sting, sometimes with lethal results. Bees can be annoying, like a nei…