Bees

1 INTRODUCTION Supporting biodiversity in agricultural landscapes is important for global nature conservation (Kremen & Merenlender, 2018), and for human economies due to the ecosystem services upon which agriculture relies (Zhang, Ricketts, Kremen, Carn…

Hummingbirds are birds from the Americas that constitute the family Trochilidae. They are among the smallest of birds, most species measuring 7.5–13 cm (3–5 in) in length. Indeed, the smallest extant bird species is a hummingbird, the 5 cm (2.0 in) bee hummin…

For the latest competition you were invited to submit a short story entitled ‘The Last Bumble Bee’. The buff-tailed bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, was once voted Britain’s favourite insect, and this challenge seemed to strike a chord, inspiring stories that r…

We get it that automakers need to diversify in order to survive in an increasingly challenging market, but Bentleys recently revealed strategy is clearly something of a curveball. The maker of luxury cars is moving into the honey business. You read that righ…

Before the rusty-patched bumble bee was listed as endangered in 2010, researchers wanted to know how many were still buzzing around. They spent more than 600 hours over eight years navigating through Ontario’s brush looking for the bees, but only spotted thre…

Author contributions: G. Balent, B.P., F.B., T.T., V.B., G.S., A.O., L.B., J.-L.M., and L.F. designed research; C.S., N.G., A.B.B., C.B., R.C., A.H., L.H., P.M., C. Vuillot, A.A., J.G., P.B., Y.C., C. Violle, D.G., G. Bota, I.B., G.L., B.G., A.V., F.C., A.G.-…

Honeybees, both domestic and wild, are responsible for around 80 per cent of worldwide pollination, according to Greenpeace. But bee colony collapses across the globe are threatening their vital work. Bees are dying from a combination of pesticides, habitat…

If you love nothing more than a challenge, then we've got something for you. Online retailer Swift Direct Blinds have created a new brain teaser which has left many people baffled. The puzzling photo shows a number of different, colourful flowers - includ…

How is your vegetable garden going? I've been out in mine this week harvesting cabbage as well as broccoli shoots from seedlings that I planted in March. My cauliflowers planted at the same time are long harvested, but the broccoli plants growing in the g…

Looks like Australian Studio Gangplank has been on very good bee-hive-iour lately, working with urban and coastal beekeeping enterprise Bee One Third on some beautiful branding and packaging designs. The organisation was founded in response to the crisis of…