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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
… And Farming Green Living Beekeeping Honey BeesBees beekeeping.jpg You don't need a … for urban beekeepers: Ted Hooper's Guide to bees and honey (£12.99, Alphabet and Image) …
An exotic parasite is spreading through the world's honey bees and global warming is making it worse, writes Robert Paxton. A new study that shows it will soon be causing widespread colony collapse in North America and Europe.
… is spreading through the world's honey bees and global warming is making it worse, … risk, especially as summers become warmer. Bees are fairly used to parasites. A native … was found a decade later in western honey bees (the species native to Europe) in Spain, …
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
… Styles | 14th September 2011 Ethical Living Bees Hand Cream Health And Beauty Neal's Yard … Honey Health bee-holding.jpg Britain’s bees are in big trouble, but Neal’s Yard … usually go hand in hand with saving Britain’s bees, but the new honey-based hand cream from …
A new study shows it's not just neonicotinoids that impair bees' ability to navigate to nectar and pollen sources, and to their nests: now the herbicide glyphosate has been found to have the same impact even at very low levels.
… Glyphosate harms bees' spatial learning Beyond Pesticides | … it's not just neonicotinoids that impair bees' ability to navigate to nectar and pollen … pointing to toxic and sublethal effects on bees. According to a new study conducted by …
The Government's 'National Pollinator Strategy' has a fatal flaw, writes Georgina Downs - it contains no meaningful measures to address farmers' spraying of highly toxic pesticides, often in mixtures that can further increase the harm they cause. And with 80% of the UK's pesticides used in agriculture, that's setting the 'strategy' up to fail.
… new 10-year strategy aimed at supporting bees and other pollinators that are vital for … Environment Secretary she acknowledged that bees and other pollinating insects such as … bring about the best possible conditions for bees and other insects to flourish." What …
Wild flower margins around arable fields can funnel deadly pesticides into the bees, wild pollinators and other insects they are intended to benefit, writes Oliver Tickell. Neonic pesticides are often far more concentrated in the wild flowers than in the crop itself.
… October 2015 News Farming Health Toxics UK Bees Science poppies-cut.jpg Wild flower … fields can funnel deadly pesticides into the bees, wild pollinators and other insects they … honeybee hives came from wild flowers. Honeybees examined in the study were also …
Bees Abroad, a UK beekeeping charity, has initiated a project to train and support Malawian beekeepers. Find out how you can help...
… September 2009 Activism Food And Gardening Bees Abroad Malawi Beekeeping Pam Gregory … Nkhata Bay Honey Producers Co-operative beesinmalawi2.jpg Bees Abroad, a UK beekeeping charity, has …
A beekeeper from Lincolnshire has launched the UK’s first certified Carbon Neutral honey.
… Brooker | 14th January 2019 News Beekeeping Bees Honey Carbon Neutral jez_rose_founder_of_bees_for_business.jpg A beekeeper from … honey. Honeybee farmer Jez Rose runs Bees for Business. The company works …
Take one Alpaca, a scattering of silkworms, a couple of cows and a group of goats, and you could just be the next Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. Lisa Stephens presents the A to Z of smallholdings
… Drink Gardening Food And Farming Animals Cows Bees Beekeeping Goats Pigs Horses holding.jpg … churn up the land like cows do.' B is for bees Not only do they produce delicious honey, … Keeping Trust . 'A healthy eco-system needs bees and vice versa. It is our responsibility …
Short-haired bumblebee to be brought back from New Zealand and reintroduced into Kent
… 2010 The Ecologist | 7th September 2009 News Bees Health Food And Farming Natural World Bumblebees beequeen,-nz,-dave-goulson.jpg … it to visit plants that other more common bees in Britain don't touch.' If all goes to …
With the UK's Digital Economy Bill set to be finalised today, new 5G microwave spectra are about to be released across the planet without adequate safety testing, writes Lynne Wycherley. Global neglect of the Precautionary Principle is opening the way to corporate profit but placing humans and ecosystems at risk, and delaying a paradigm shift towards safer connectivity.
… at Bristol University reported in May that bees' hairs are highly sensitive to flowers' … EMFs. In controlled trials in Switzerland, bees reacted to mobile-phone signals with …
Robert Louis Stevenson’s account of his epic 1879 journey through the Cévennes is one of the high points of travel literature but as Ruth Styles found out, there’s still plenty to be discovered
… Weekend Break Eco Friendly Green Honey Bees Beekeeping cevennes1.jpg Robert Louis … beneficiary of the trees are the local bees, whose honey has a uniquely nutty flavour … unlike most commercial apiculturalists, his bees live in the same spot all year round so …
Drinking water in area surrounding the factory is contaminated and creating a 'second Bhopal disaster', say campaigners
… companies are both breeding and killing bees Agri-chemical companies like Syngenta … that have been blamed for the decline in bees; they also breed the bees that are being used as a replacement for …
Flea powder probably isn't something you think often about. But with some frighteningly toxic ingredients you should: they can be deadly for you and your pets
… implicated in colony collapse disorder in bees. It is now banned in France. The same is … MORE... NEWS Leaked document exposes risks to bees and insects from Bayer pesticide US government scientists flag up risks to bees and aquatic insects from neonicotinoid …
Antibiotics have saved countless millions of lives since the 1930s, but their power is failing due to their massive use in factory farming, horticulture, aquaculture and industry, says a new report from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Antibiotics. We must stop all inessential uses of antibiotics, or face a future where we risk death from minor injuries and routine surgery.
… bacteria. Another problem is that honeybees do not metabolize antibiotics, which …
A huge 96 percent of Royal Horticultural Society members believe in the health benefits of gardening.
… grow we would have fewer insects, wildlife, bees, beauty and benefits to the environment. … of gardeners quizzed choose plants for bees, while 96 percent of members believe in …
It looked like such a good idea: take the pressure off wild fish stocks by growing GM oilseeds that produce health-enhancing long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, writes Claire Robinson. But as a new study has established, those fish oils, novel in terrestrial ecosystems, cause wing deformities in cabbage white butterflies. Yet a third open field trial of these GM crops could soon be under way.
… insects such as non-pest butterflies, bees, and other pollinators. It is also not … butterflies, pest predators, parasites, bees, and pollinators. Concerned scientists … butterflies, pest predators, parasites, bees, and pollinators. We have been calling …
If it wasn't climate change, was the real purpose of the Number 10 meeting of Theresa May's advisors and President Trump's environmental transition supremo Myron Ebell to plan the post-Brexit deregulation of UK farming, including pesticides? That's how it looks, writes Georgina Downs - and we had better begin now to fight for our health, wildlife and environment.
… these farm chemicals to either human health, bees, or the wider environment. [3] An … on this day and age. I also see loads of dead bees!!!" Charlotte Davis: "As a teenager I …
In a match some would say was made in hell, two of the world's leading producers of agro-chemicals have joined forces in a partnership to reintroduce the herbicide 2, 4-D, - one-half of the infamous defoliant Agent Orange
… Politics And Economics Dow Monsanto Bees poison_sign.jpg In a match some would say … system. It has also proved toxic to honeybees , birds and fish according to research …
Enzyme Potentiated Desensitisation is a groundbreaking treatment for allergy sufferers. But the recent closure of a firm championing EPD leaves its future in doubt. Drug companies and mainstream doctors are unlikely to be mourning, says Charlotte Davis
… up at a warm summer sky, I could hear the bees buzzing in the flowers and the gentle …