rely on native bee species, not honey bees, To create their map, the researchers compared data about the occurrence of individual bee species with a checklist of over 20,000 species compiled by Dr ...

Honey bees grab most of the limelight with their produce used for food, drink, drugs and skincare products. But they are just one of the 180 species found in Wales. The rest are wild bees - a mix ...

To understand why losing them is such a problem, we need to understand what bees do for us in the first place. Of course we know that some species produce honey, without which the world would be a ...

The appearance of semi-circular holes in the leaves of your garden plants is a sure sign that the patchwork leaf-cutter bee has been at work. It is one of a number of leaf-cutter bee species present ...

This fact sheet suggests plant species you can plant or maintain which ... often does not provide sufficient flowering plants for honey bees during active periods, so your plantings can help. The ...

Stingless bees produce a healthier honey, uniquely rich in a rare sugar, called trehalulose, which may have benefits ranging from ranking low on the glycaemic index (GI) to displaying antioxidant ...