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Bee Lovely: the hand cream standing up for insects
Ruth Styles
14th September, 2011
Britain’s bees are in big trouble, but Neal’s Yard Remedies have come to the rescue with a campaign and limited edition hand cream. Ruth Styles put it to the test more...
The A to Z of beekeeping
Gervase Poulden
6th September, 2011
From zoning to killer bees and lovely honey: Gervase Poulden explains the essentials of beekeeping more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Richard Scott of Landlife
Matilda Lee
12th July, 2011
The senior project manager at Landlife, the charity working to bring people and wildlife closer together, on 'principled' dealings with corporations and why it's important to make politicians jealous more...
TAKE ACTION to protect Britain's bees
Matilda Lee
5th July, 2011
Sign the petition to ban neonicotinoids in the UK and help safeguard Britain's threatened bee population more...
Clean and green: Top 10…eco-friendly grooming products
Henry Gass
17th June, 2011
Whether you’re trying to get to grips with the concept of serum or just want a decent shampoo, Henry Gass has the lowdown on the eco-friendly grooming products that will do the trick for you and for the planet more...
Super nature: creating a wildlife garden
Hazel Sillver
22nd March, 2011
From birds to dragonflies and butterflies to bees, Hazel Sillver explains how to turn your garden into a haven for wildlife more...
Pesticides and Pollinators: A future without bees
PAN UK’s Annual Rachel Carson Memorial Lecture looks at the role of pesticides in the decline of bees more...
Biodiversity begins with a Bee (according to Scottish Natural Heritage)
The Ecologist
27th January,2011
Scottish Natural Heritage launch a new film in the name of safeguarding biodiversity, complete with with sword-fighting and motorcycling bees...more...
Leaked document exposes risks to bees and insects from Bayer pesticide
Tom Levitt
3rd January, 2010
US government scientists flag up risks to bees and aquatic insects from neonicotinoid pesticide that biotech giant Bayer are trying to gain approval for use by farmers more...
British Beekeepers' Association to stop endorsing bee-killing pesticides
Alison Benjamin, guardian society editor
17th November, 2010
Beekeepers' group ends commercial relationship with pesticide manufacturer whose product killed bees more...
Controversial pesticides linked to 'total ecological collapse' of insects and birds
Dearbhla Crosse and Tom Levitt
16th November, 2010
Widespread use of insecticides affecting bee populations but also causing decline in numbers of birds, butterflies and moths, warns Dutch toxicologistmore...
PHOTO GALLERY: Breeding bees resistant to the varroa mite
Louis Rummer-Downing
22nd October, 2010
British honeybee populations have been decimated by the varroa mite, but hidden inside hives in deepest Cornwall, something very special is happening... more...
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'Unnecessary' weedkillers could undermine efforts to protect bee population
Dearbhla Crosse
12th October,2010
New research encouraging gardeners to increase bumblebee populations by planting flowers could be undermined by the use of weedkillers and pesticides, Bumblebee Conservation Trust (BBCT) warns more...
Bees stung by 'climate change-linked' early pollination
Ecologist
7th September, 2010
Climate change may be causing flowers to open before bees emerge from hibernation leading to declines in pollination, new research suggests more... ‘Growing body of evidence’ links pesticides to bee decline
Ecologist
5th August, 2010
Government and retailers, including B&Q and Wyevale, under pressure to impose a ban on sale of pesticides linked to bee population decline following new research more...
Why are bees in decline? New research to provide the answers
Ecologist
22nd June, 2010
Nine new studies will look at the role of pesticides, habitat loss and disease in the decline of insect pollinators like the honeybee and bumblebee more...
Small-scale beekeepers threatened by colony losses
Ecologist
25th May, 2010
Continuing high winter losses in bee colonies is prompting fears about future of hobby beekeeping more...
Heavy bee colony losses in US could lead to price rise
Ecologist
4th May, 2010
Beekeepers in US blame weather and starvation for another winter of heavy colony losses, which is likely to lead to rises in the cost of pollination more...
How to be an urban beekeeper
Theodora Tsentas
27th April, 2010
You don't need a smallholding and a meadow to be a budding apiarist - a few sensible precautions will let you fight honeybee decline with a hive in your own backyard more...
Toughen up: bee disease is nothing new
Tom Hodgkinson
31st March, 2010
There's no great conspiracy around bee deaths - hive diseases have been with us for millennia. No one who keeps livestock should expect an easy ride... more... Loss of forage biggest long-term threat to bees
Ecologist
8th January, 2010
Intensification of farming and subsequent decline in food sources rather than pesticides or disease seen as biggest threat to honey bees more...
Beekeeping for ecology, economy and food security
Jamie Skey
1st September, 2009
Bees Abroad, a UK beekeeping charity, has initiated a project to train and support Malawian beekeepers. Find out how you can help... more...
Help protect our honeybees
Laura Sevier
13th July, 2009
Neonicotinoid pesticides are killing our honeybees. Sign the Soil Association petition to help get it banned. Then take part in Twitter's 'Tweehive' - starting on 14th July more... Agri-chemical companies are both breeding and killing bees
Tom Levitt
13th October, 2009
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 more...
Renewed call for pesticide ban to protect bees
Ecologist
14th September, 2009
Previous calls to ban neonicotinoids have been turned down by the UK government because of lack of evidence more...Members
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