This year’s Great British Bee Count got off to a flying start today. Thousands of people are expected to take part, but organisers Friends of the...
English honey bees benefitted from this year’s mild winter and improved colony survival rate, but experts noted that the loss is still too high. Winter survey...
An unusually warm summer in 2013 provided a much-needed boost to many of Britain’s native species, in what experts have called “one of the most remarkable...
The Scottish government has announced it will create a protected area on the island of Colonsay, to preserve the country’s native black bee. The black bee...
EU member states have voted to ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides that studies have shown are harmful to bees. The decision means the European commission...
A coalition of campaign groups are taking to the streets of London to urge the government to get behind plans to ban three harmful streams of...
Despite overwhelming public backing in favour of bee protection, environment secretary Owen Paterson appears set to reject European proposals over the banning of three bee-harming insecticides....
A US research team has tabled a proposal to develop a global monitoring method that will detect small changes in the bee population. The research was...
The European Commission has urged EU countries to ban the use of the neonicotinoid insecticides that are said to have driven a decline in the bee...