Our honeybees are in crisis and there are serious effects already in motion due to the loss of these precious and very useful creatures. Without honeybees our flora, fauna and our food sources are going to disappear. There are currently 250 species [...]
Saturday, August 17 was National Honey Bee Day across two nations, in fact: Canada and the United States. This holiday celebrating our pollinatin’ pals – whose very existence supports about ⅓ of the human food supply and 70% of all cultivated plants [...]
On January 6th, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concluded that crops attractive to honeybees (in particular the European Apis mellifera) cannot contain chemicals from the neonicotinoid family of pesticides. This conclusion was reached [...]
A new study by Britain’s Food and Environment Agency is triggering backlash over a French ban on a particular pesticide. Reuters reports that British scientists have shot down an April study, led by French scientist Mikaël Henry, about declining [...]
Although the U.S. White House is usually busy dealing with a faltering economy and terrorism-related threats in the Middle East, it’s been buzzing with a different kind of activity this season. The honeybees on the South Lawn has reportedly [...]