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Bees

April 2025

  • A honey bee on a white flower

    Wildflowers could be absorbing toxic metals that pass on to bees, study finds

  • An Asian hornet in flight towards a flower

    ‘Unprecedented’ sightings of Asian hornets raise fears for UK bees

  • Early bumblebee (bombus pratorum) hovering over clover, Yorkshire, UK

    Brief letters
    The buzz about living the good life

  • A beekeeper inspects his charges

    Scientists hoping to target queen bees in search of secret to longer life

  • Country diary
    Country diary: There’s a new star in the garden – the tree bumblebee

  • The age of extinction
    The secret to finding one of the most endangered bumblebees in the US? Dogs

March 2025

  • An older woman in a beekeeper's protective clothing and helmet peering at a wooden tray with honeycomb and bees in a field with hives

    The age of extinction
    I’m a vet for bees – I think I might be the only one in the US

    Every bee is precious, and as the weather gets more erratic I’m growing concerned about the effect it is having on their wellbeing
  • honeybees in a hive

    US honeybee deaths hit record high as scientists scramble to find main cause

    US Department of Agriculture calls in university to help study decline as Trump administration staff cuts sting

    • Use of pesticides on UK farms to be cut by 10% by 2030 to protect bees

    • Country diary
      Country diary: A tiny wildflower meadow with bespoke bee habitats

    • Invasive Asian hornets ‘preying on’ hundreds of native insect species in Europe

February 2025

  • A red-tailed bumblebee gathers pollen from a purple flower

    UK bumblebee numbers fell to lowest on record in 2024, shows data

    Bumblebees declined by almost a quarter compared with the 2010-2023 average, according to conservation charity
  • An older man and a younger woman in front of a fenced-in area filled with burnt debris.

    The New Face of Small Business
    They lost 30,000 pounds of honey to the LA fires. Rebuilding their hives will be a difficult struggle

    Bruce and Nancy Steele had a business that produced honey for the past 30 years before the Eaton fire destroyed it
  • Yellow dandelion with three bees on the petals

    UK conservation goals insufficient to save ants and bees, says expert

    Science committee chair calls for monitored species to include groups such as moths, lice and hymenoptera

January 2025

  • Honeybee pollinating a squash plant

    Government overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticide

    Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU
  • A honeybee completely covered in pollen on a yellow flower.

    The age of extinction
    High fertiliser use halves numbers of pollinators, world’s longest study finds

    Even average use of nitrogen fertilisers cut flower numbers fivefold and halved pollinating insects
  • C Marina Marchese with her honeybees

    A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: I tasted honey so sublime, I gave up my career to keep bees

    When a neighbour let me see inside his hive, it set me on a path to an extraordinary life second act

December 2024

  • An Arctic tern

    National Trust records ‘alarming’ drop in insects and seabirds at its sites

    Charity says unstable weather patterns caused by the climate crisis had a ‘devastating impact’ in 2024
  • Garnett Puett at work in 2024.

    ‘A little spooky’: an artist-beekeeper’s apian oeuvre celebrates the industrious insect

    Garnett Puett’s Los Angeles exhibition is a collaboration between humans and bees and an exploration of their relationship
  • A bee on a flower

    UK to ban bee-killing pesticides but highly toxic type could still be allowed

    Ministers set out plans for outlawing neonicotinoids but considering application by farmers to use Cruiser SB
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