It is a soft summer day, the grass bed beneath you lifts you up higher to meet the clouds above, which are ballooning by lazily. As you look to your right, you notice a delicate, lavender, bundle of ...

Ecologists from the University of Wurzburg have developed improved breeding methods to aid research into risks to bees. They detailed the methods in a study released in Methods in Ecology and ...

Sweet structure For thousands of years, thinkers have marvelled at the feat of engineering that is the honeycomb. Each waxy cell is a perfect hexagon, its six wafer-thin sides providing not only ...

If you go down to these woods today you are sure of a sweet surprise - bees swarming in sub-zero temperatures around a giant honeycomb. Even Sir David Attenborough would be stumped by the discovery as ...