Foragers in late summer: From now on, a good pollen input is important so that the winter bees are well fed and live until spring, undated photo. (Janine Fritsch, NewsX/Bee)
Illustrative image shows a bee, undated. (Thomas Hochwarter, NewsX/Bee)
Honeybees And Solitary Pollinators Wrangle For Food, Experts Confirm
Illustrative image shows honey, undated. (NewsX/Bee)
Inflation ‘May Affect Price Of Honey’
Picture shows Colletes inaequalis, undated. Experts at the University of California (UC) investigating the behaviour of the Colletes inaequalis - a ground-nesting species also known as plasterer bee - determined that its microbiome is one of the most fermentative of all the insects in the world. (USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Laboratory, NewsX/Bee)
North American Bee Species Ferments Food In Bacteria Cells
Picture shows Prof Christina Grozinger from Pennsylvania State University, undated. Prof Grozinger has co-authored studies concerning pesticides, the nutritional ecology of honeybees and the attractiveness plants are having on pollinators. (NewsX/Bee)
Bee Species Decline ‘Has Serious implications For Human Nutrition’
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)