Urban beekeeping will help boost the UK's declining bee population. Here are six reasons to get involved
… April 2012 Activism Natural World Wildlife Bees Colony Collapse Disorder Pesticides Urban Beekeeping bees.jpg Urban beekeeping will help boost the … Here are six reasons to get involved Healthy bees make a healthy planet Bees play a crucial …
From zoning to killer bees and lovely honey: Gervase Poulden explains the essentials of beekeeping
… 2011 Ethical Living Beekeeping Honey BeesBees Honey Varroa A To Z Gardening Green … World holding.jpg From zoning to killer bees and lovely honey: Gervase Poulden …
British honeybee populations have been decimated by the varroa mite, but hidden inside hives in deepest Cornwall, something very special is happening...
… PHOTO GALLERY: Breeding bees resistant to the varroa mite Louis … | 22nd October 2010 Activism Natural World Bees Varroa Mite Native Bees Rodger Dewhurst Honey Wildlife How To …
Woodcarver Matt Somerville believes harvesting honey should be more natural so he has devised a new kind of hive aimed at benefitting the health and sustainability of bee colonies. MIRIAM DARLINGTON met him.
… Darlington | 25th July 2018 Ethical Living Bees Bee-keeping Honey bees.jpg Woodcarver Matt Somerville believes … summer and the promise of sweetness – honeybees, Apis mellifera . They have been …
Recent reports of catastrophic declines in bee populations have had scientists buzzing around looking for a plausible explanation. Is it mites? Is it GM crops? Is it mobile phones or habitat loss? It's all of these things, says Pat Thomas, but it's also so much more than that.
… Give Bees a chance Pat Thomas | 11th February 2008 News Bees Crops Diversity Colony Collapse Disorder … the sedate and rarefied world of beekeeping. Bees are big business. In 2006, a Cornell …
Agri-chemical companies like Syngenta don’t just make the chemicals that have been blamed for the decline in bees; they also breed the bees that are being used as a replacement for wild pollinators
… companies are both breeding and killing bees Tom Levitt | 13th October 2009 News Bees Pollination Health Natural World … that have been blamed for the decline in bees; they also breed the bees that are being …
You can help save our bees with 'citizen science', writes Paul de Zylva - recording those you spot in your local area to help build up a long term picture of their changing numbers. Today we publish an identification guide to the 'top ten' bees, so you can get started right away. But be quick - the Great British Bee Count 2015 ends on Sunday.
… k park-cut.jpg You can help save our bees with 'citizen science', writes Paul de … an identification guide to the 'top ten' bees, so you can get started right away. But … Bee Count 2015 ends on Sunday. The buzz of bees is a familiar summer sound across the …
In China, pear trees have had to be pollinated by hand after bees were wiped out by industrial farming. Now FOE have launched a petition to get the UK government to help halt the decline in Britain's own bee population
… | 11th April 2012 Activism Natural World Bees Pollination Pesticides Friends Of The Earth Wildlife Agriculture bees.jpg In China, pear trees have had to be pollinated by hand after bees were wiped out by industrial farming. Now …
The EU's decision to authorise a new 'neonic' pesticide knowing it was highly toxic to bees has been challenged in the European Court. A similar permit granted to sulfoxaflor in the US has already been struck down by a federal court.
… | 29th October 2015 News Law Farming Toxics Bees Regulation bee-canola-cut.jpg The EU's … pesticide knowing it was highly toxic to bees has been challenged in the European … Safety Authority (EFSA) as 'highly toxic to bees'. The EFSA's assessment of the pesticide …
Bees are in danger, but contrary to the buzz around National Honey Bee Day, supporting the honey industry isn’t the best way to protect these incredibly important insects
… Eating honey is bad for bees Elena Orde | 21st August 2019 Comment … Vegan Honey Honeybee Honeybee Decline bee.jpg Bees are in danger, but contrary to the buzz … running since 2009 in order to "honour honey bees and beekeeping". Since pollinators such …
Antibiotics used to protect them from bacterial illnesses ravaging hives are making them die from commonly used pesticides, some of which are used to ward-off bee-killing parasites. Matthew Thompson reports.
… by pest or pesticide? Antibiotic dangers trap bees in a Catch 22 Matthew Thompson | 2nd … parasites. Matthew Thompson reports. Honey bees are trapped in a Catch 22 where … study into the effect of antibiotics on honey bees adds to the research into the problems …
Gardeners across Britain are being asked to earn their stripes by joining the Great British Bee Count and help our threatened pollinators. Bees are good for flowers - and also support our farmers, argues EMI MURPHY of Friends of the Earth
… pollinators Emi Murphy | 6th June 2018 News Bees Gardens Food And Farming Friends Of The … Count and help our threatened pollinators. Bees are good for flowers - and also support … threat But despite the good news, Britain’s bees are far from saved. A government review …
Wild bee decline is closely associated with the advance of intensive farming and habitat loss, a new study shows. It follows an earlier paper that linked 'delayed action' decline of wild bees to exposure to pesticides including fungicides - previously considered 'bee-safe'.
… 2015 News Farming Health Toxics Science Bees Biodiversity USA … that linked 'delayed action' decline of wild bees to exposure to pesticides including … - previously considered 'bee-safe'. Native bees are on the decline in some of the major …
On the first anniversary of the UK's National Pollinator Strategy, writes Sandra Bell, the Bee Coalition warns that bees are still under threat from highly toxic pesticides, continuing loss of habitat, and an increasingly inhospitable countryside. The Government must do more to protect our bees.
… Our threatened bees deserve better! Sandra Bell Friends of … 2015 Comment Natural World Farming Law UK EU Bees bumble-bee-cut.jpg On the first … Sandra Bell, the Bee Coalition warns that bees are still under threat from highly toxic …
Replacing the pollination of food crops that the UK's bees perform for free would cost £1.8bn. With hard data now linking pesticides to bees' rapid decline, there is no excuse for inaction, says Damian Carrington
… Grave threat of pesticides to bees' billion-pound bonanza is now clear … Head of Environment | 20th April 2012 Comment Bees Pesticides Intensive Farming Comment Food And Farming bees.jpg Replacing the pollination of food …
In 2013 the EU imposed a moratorium on three of the most toxic of the neonicotinoid pesticides in an attempt to save wild bee populations. Now farmers have applied to lift the ban, writes Nat Whalley. Time to call on environment secretary Liz Truss, who today receives a 300,000-signature 'save the bees' petition, to say 'No!'
… Keep our bees safe! Liz Truss must say no to neonics … | 5th June 2015 Comment Farming Natural World Bees Toxics Politics Law Corporations … today receives a 300,000-signature 'save the bees' petition, to say 'No!' Not so long ago, …
Britain's bees are under threat from Brexit and moves to allow farmers to use banned bee-harming 'neonictinoid' pesticides, warns Dave Timms, Bees Campaigner with Friends of the Earth. With 20 species extinct since 1900 and a further 35 under threat, how much more can our bees take?
… - a nasty sting in the tail for Britain's bees? Dave Timms | 21st June 2016 Activism Bees Pesticides Farming Conservation EU … World Politics UK bumble bee.jpg Britain's bees are under threat from Brexit and moves to …
Book Review: Thor Hanson's 'Buzz' is gently persuasive but lets humans off the hook.
… Philip Strange | 13th November 2018 News Bees Book Review Resurgence & Ecologist bees.jpg Book Review: Thor Hanson's 'Buzz' is … author of Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees - visited the almond orchards in …
Chemical giant Bayer has failed in its attempt to sue Friends of the Earth Germany over its claims that its pesticide Thiacloprid harms bees. Now pressure is growing on the EU to add the neonicotinoid to the three already banned.
… Bees victory in pesticide battle - Bayer libel … claims that its pesticide Thiacloprid harms bees. Now pressure is growing on the EU to add … that two of its pesitcide formulations harm bees. A judge in Dusseldorf has ruled that …
Beekeeping is not only providing a much-needed income for a remote Tibetan refugee camp in Nepal, but is also proving a boon to local flora. It’s a win-win scenario. Economic win, ecological win. MICHAEL BUCKLEY reports
… a new source of much-needed income: bees. “We use apis cerena cerena bees, which are hardy and native to this … at Dhorpattan are log hives, where busy bees come and go, heading out to flowers …
European commission vote highlights threat to the world's food supply from the decline of bees and other pollinators
… the world's food supply from the decline of bees and other pollinators One of every three … worldwide depends on pollinators, especially bees, for a successful harvest. And in the … bee colonies. "Other crops don't need as many bees as the California almond orchards do, so …
The alarm bells of declining bee populations worldwide have gone largely unnoticed. But a new study which will look specifically into the effects of agrochemicals on one of our key pollinators hopes its findings will help protect them well into the future. CATHERINE HARTE reports
… Huge research programme announced to protect bees Catherine Harte | 19th June 2018 News Bees Agrochemicals Royal Holloway University … study into the effects of agrochemicals on bees across the UK and Europe is due to be …
The combined impacts of pesticides and air pollution on bees could have severe consequences.
… Air pollution making honey bees sick Barbara Smith Mark Brown | 11th August 2020 News Bees Science Systems Insects Pollution … impacts of pesticides and air pollution on bees could have severe consequences. Whether …
Rob Drake-Knight reports on a unique collaboration between an environmental organisation and an eco-fashion label who together aim to raise greater awareness of the plight of bees.....
… Bees: the battle is not over yet 18th July … to raise greater awareness of the plight of bees..... Bees pollinate 71 of our top 100 food crops. …