Saving Chile’s bumblebee from extinction
The introduction of European bumblebees in Chile brought the only native species, Bombus dahlbomii, close to extinction. Two species were […]
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Asian honey bees in decline?
Two weeks ago I wrote about my time in Thailand and how an old beekeeper preferred native Apis cerana to
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Ensuring food security
With the International Year of Pulses, the FAO wants to promote these very valuable dried seeds. Pulses ensure food security,
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Flowers damaged by too many bee visits
Flowers and bees have a mutualistic relationsship: this is what we are all taught at school. Flowers give bees a
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Animal welfare – what about bees?
Animal welfare is often and intensely discussed for mammals or poultry. Bees on the other hand, only seldomly are considered
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Bee diversity
The news bumblebees were suffering from climate change perhaps was not that surprising – bumblebees are the polar bears amongst
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Swarming? – No, absconding.
Reading about a healthy and persistent wild bee population in the USA resisting also varroa infestation made me think of
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Bombus dahlbomii: more than just a single species
My “bee career” began with bumblebees. It was in a course of evolutionary ecology at the university; together with another
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The world’s biggest bumblebee near to extinction
When I heard that Bombus dahlbohmii is near to extinction at the EurBee conference in Murcia last September, I was
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“There is nothing more constant than change” – Heraclitus, 535 BC”
When Heraclitus wrote about nature, he obviously had other concepts than nowadays. But the constancy of change has been noted