Illustrative image shows Manuka honey, undated. Manuka honey available in supermarkets should not be applied on wounds, food experts have warned. (NewsX/Bee)
Illustrative image shows a man spraying pesticides to crops, undated. (NewsX/Bee)
Disputed Pesticide May Be Less Bad For Bees Than Previously Thought
Picture shows a graphical abstract, undated. Pollen gathered by bees in Ireland contains large amounts of a banned insecticide, studies have shown. (Science of The Total Environment (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166214, NewsX/Bee)
Substances Banned For Being Extremely Harmful To Insects Found In Bee Pollen In Ireland
Illustrative image of a transmission tower, undated. Scientists investigating the activity of bees close to towers that actively transmit electric energy think that their radiation has a harmful impact on the pollinators. (Novoklimov, NewsX/Bee)
High-Voltage Energy Towers Disrupt Pollination, Study Reveals
Illustrative image of sunflowers, undated. Planting sunflowers could be the key to fighting a harmful mite that threatens bees all around the world, research by scientists in the United States suggests. (NewsX/Bee)
Sunflowers Could Help Protecting Hives From Varroa
The bee's optomotor response is tested by showing videos of horizontally moving vertical bars to her on two screens, creating the illusion of optic flow in undated photo. Researchers in the United Kingdom have used an insect version of the straight-line walking challenge to show for the first time that insecticides damage the nervous system of honeybees. (RH Parkinson, C Fecher, and JR Gray, NewsX/Bee)