Illustrative image shows swarm of bees, undated. (NewsX/Bee)
Illustrative image of dead bees, undated. Apiarists from two small Mexican towns where half of the inhabitants earn their living with beekeeping have blamed a farmer's application of a contested pesticide for the death of thousands of bees. (NewsX/Bee)
Fipronil On Corn Crops ‘Killed Thousands Of Bees’ In Mexico
Picture shows the environmentalist organisation NABU in Berlin, Germany, undated. Environmentalists in Berlin have urged councillors to improve the situation of insects by stopping the sealing of the city's numerous fallow grounds. (Google Maps, NewsX/Bee)
Berlin Wastelands ‘Incredibly Important’ For Bees
Illustrative image of a beekeeper, undated. The number of beekeepers in the most populous region of Germany has almost doubled within the past 10 years, it has emerged. (NewsX/Bee)
Beekeeping Boom In North-Rhine Westphalia
Picture shows Ioan Fetea, undated. He heads the Romanian Association of Beekeepers. (NewsX/Bee)