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13, Jan, 2023 @6:14 PM
US government approves use of world’s first vaccine for honeybees
Hopes of a new weapon against diseases that routinely ravage colonies that are relied upon for food pollination
Oliver Milman
04, Jan, 2023 @9:50 PM
Plantwatch: how fertilisers interfere with flowers’ electric fields
Research shows disruption lasts for up to 25 minutes after spraying, discouraging insects from visiting
Paul Simons
21, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM
What happens when humans meddle with nature?
Seven ways in which our destruction of the natural world has led to deadly outcomes
Phoebe Weston
22, Nov, 2022 @7:00 AM
Lost and found: how two dead giant bees on eBay sparked the hunt to find one alive
Photographer Clay Bolt and entomologist Eli Wyman launched an expedition to find Wallace’s giant bee and ‘rediscovered’ it in Indonesia’s Maluku islands
Graeme Green
10, Nov, 2022 @4:00 PM
Bumblebees get a buzz out of playing with balls, study finds
Research shows bees rolling wooden balls despite having no apparent incentive to do so
Jessica Murray
27, Oct, 2022 @3:00 PM
Business groups block action that could help tackle biodiversity crisis, report finds
Industry associations for sectors from oil to agriculture in the US and Europe found resisting wildlife-friendly laws, say researchers
Phoebe Weston
24, Oct, 2022 @10:00 AM
‘Brexit freedoms bill’ could abolish all pesticide protections, campaigners say
Bill would see 570 EU-derived environmental laws removed at end of 2023, with little time to replace them
Damian Carrington Environment editor
29, Sep, 2022 @2:14 PM
Buzz stops: bus shelter roofs turned into gardens for bees and butterflies
Bee bus stops first appeared in the Dutch city of Utrecht. Now the UK is planning for more than 1,000 and there is growing interest across Europe and in Canada and Australia
Phoebe Weston
24, Sep, 2022 @10:00 AM
Ohio man who suffered 20,000 bee-stings expected to recover, family says
Austin Bellamy has awoken from a medically induced coma after mistakenly cutting into a bees’ nest while trimming a tree
Maya Yang
02, Sep, 2022 @5:50 PM
Country diary: Who would live in a keyhole like this?
Allendale, Northumberland: I had found neat semi-circles on the epimedium leaves in my garden, now I know who’s been busy
Susie White
29, Aug, 2022 @4:30 AM
New wildflower havens in South Downs national park boost bee numbers
Bee populations are in steep decline in UK but community funded projects have led to recovery of the ‘vital ecosystem engineers’
Chelsie Henshaw
22, Aug, 2022 @1:15 PM
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