Bees

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…

Khadi and Village Industry Commission (KVIC) distributed as many as 50 leather kits and 350 Bee-Boxes with live bee colonies in tribal-dominated village in Sirohi district of Rajasthan, one of the aspirational districts in India identified by the NITI Aayog, …

A new study shows how "insect apocalypse" is unfolding across America's farmland since neonicotinoid pesticides were introduced several decades ago. Researchers found that farmland across the country is 48 times more toxic to insect life than 25 years ago, a…

With Australia's multi-billion-dollar agriculture sector reliant on bee pollination, a stinky technique could diversify other insect pollinators to favour crops. key points flies Key points: Flies are well known to be as efficient pollinators as be…

The rise of a common agricultural chemical has turned bees' environment into a minefield of deadly poison, says a new crop of research.   According to multiple new studies, a class of pesticides called neonicotinoids may be less benign that previously though…

Albert Einstein is often credited with saying: 'If the bee disappeared off the face of the Earth, man would only have four years left to live.'   Though there is no evidence the German genius actually said this, the mere existence of the idea has caused many…

On my farm on the plains of Minnesota, I’ve tended honeybees for more than 40 years. I keep over 2,300 hives for honey and beeswax production. I also travel to California with my bees in the winter to pollinate crops like almonds, cherries and apples. It’s my…

New York Police Department's beekeeping unit removed 25,000 bees that took up residence on an awning in a Staten Island Ferry subway terminal, officials tweeted Sunday. The bees were safely removed from the scene, and no injuries were suffered in the "sting"…

Roadside verges may be better for bees and butterflies than fields in the countryside and could help save key British species. The verges of roads are more attractive to pollinators like bumblebees and hoverflies because they have more wild flowers than fiel…

Driving between Oakland and Los Angeles in February offers glimpses of a spectacular scene — neat, symmetrical rows of trees covered with pink and white flowers, stretching on for hundreds of miles. This is the annual California almond bloom. Almond trees tak…