Road verges – adding habitat or danger for bees?
Road verges cover quite a bit of area. In Germany, where I live, it’s about 30,000 km². I’m not that […]
Bee Series, Miscellaneous
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Bee Series, Miscellaneous
The bees’ needs – central place foraging
Bees are a classical example for central place foraging. It may sound abstract but simply means that the activity of
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Honey bee health management – for managed and wild bees
Honey bee health management – that sounds like something very abstract and technical. Like something that interests beekeepers who want
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Good beekeeping practices influence pollinator health
In my last post, I described how my approach to bee health changed over the years. From focussing on single
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From single bee diseases to a concept of One Health
Healthy bees – how do you define them? My approach has changed over the years. First, I was interested in
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Bee nutrition – the overarching principle for bee health
In this period of the year, I think about bee nutrition quite often. It’s the time of wild meadows, of
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Nest choice in solitary bees – copying the successful
The meaning of life, one of my professors at the university said, is to maintain yourself alive and to procreate.
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How to save the bees and other endeavours – BeeSafe in 2020
“Save the bees!” was a frequent claim already when I started with BeeSafe. In the past years, this demand became
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After the Krefeld study – insect declines reloaded
The so-called “Krefeld study” brought insect declines into public attention. After Hallmann and co-workers published their results in late 2017,
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Does beekeeping help to “save the bees”?
The claim to “save the bees” is very strong these days. In principle, this is a good thing. I really