Picture shows Cedric Alaux from the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE), undated. He praised the endeavour for posing "new research perspectives". (NewsX/Bee)
Agriculture Minister Norbert Totschnig (left) and entomologist Thomas Zuna-Kratky pose in an undated photo. The team of scientists headed by Dr Thomas Zuna-Kratky from Vienna University's Department of Evolutionary Biology found that 1,580 square kilometres of soil - which is four times the size of the federal capital - had been sealed within the last 30 years. (BML/Hemerka, NewsX/Bee)
Soil-Sealing Advances In Austria As Scientist Urges To Protect Water Sources
Picture shows what appear to be Spanish bees (Apis mellifera iberiensis), undated. The Ministry for Agriculture and Nutrition announced it would inject EUR 250,000 (GBP 219,000) into a new queen-breeding initiative on the Balearic Islands in support of the Spanish bee (Apis mellifera iberiensis). (NewsX/Bee)
Massive Queen-Breeding Plan For Balearics Unveiled
Pollination season powered by BeeHero, undated. Californian-Israeli tech firm BeeHero confirmed having received USD 64 million (EUR 59 million) from various investors including London-based food and agriculture business Cibus Capital, Dutch financial services enterprise Rabobank and General Mills. (BeeHero, NewsX/Bee)
Food Giant Funds Hive Tech Startup
Picture shows a hive that appears to be infected with American foulbrood, undated. (NewsX/Bee)
Bee Vaccine On Sale Soon As USDA Gives Go-Ahead
Picture shows Till Backhaus - the state's social democratic minister for agriculture of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany, undated. He pledged to support the implementation of further measures to support honeybees and other pollinators such as the numerous solitary bee species. (NewsX/Bee)