Picture shows Hamburg airport beekeeper Ingo Fehr in undated footage. He shared some advice on how everyone can do their bit in protecting pollinators. (Hamburg Airport, NewsX/Bee)
Gerhard Riesenberger, 46, from the small town of Kilb, Lower Austria, poses in undated photo. Gerhard - whose cattle farm consists of around 140 animals - got into beekeeping as a teenager and has kept going ever since. (Gerhard Riesenberger, NewsX/Bee)
CO2 Emissions Won’t Decline If We Continue This Way, Beekeeper Warns
Picture shows a male specimen of an early bumblebee (Bombus pratorum) landing on an Echinacea purpurea flower, undated. It can be found throughout Europe, except for the Iberian peninsula. (Bernie Kohl, NewsX/Bee)
Study Sheds Light On How CO2 Affects Bumblebees
Picture shows Golf Club Duvenhof Willich, undated. Twenty-two honeybee colonies were installed at the Golfanlage Duvenhof in Willich, North-Rhine Westphalia in 2020. (NewsX/Bee)
First Honey Harvest At Golf Course Hive
Picture shows a Thyreus picaron, undated. Karim Strohriegl from the Styrian Environment Protection Union (Naturschutzbund Steiermark) said the Thyreus picaron genus had been spotted at the defunct Hauenstein stone pit near Graz and on a hill outside Spielfeld in Austria. (Lorenz W. Gunzcy, NewsX/Bee)
Climate Change Sends Mediterranean Bees To Austria
Picture shows lab-kept honey bees, undated. Despite improved standards for keeping honey bees in the lab, UMD research shows caged bees have shorter lifespans than they did 50 years ago, suggesting something other than environmental conditions could be causing higher rates of honey bee colony loss for commercial bee keepers. (Anthony Nearman, UMD, NewsX/Bee)