Painting Petals
Flowers use colourful petal patterns to attract bees, with boundaries set early in development, influencing pollinator preferences.
Bees
The Bee’s Vapid Poison
Bees cannot detect common lethal pesticides in nectar, risking inadvertent consumption and population decline.
Buzzing Electricity
Aerial insects carry an electric charge, with some insects, such as honeybees having a similar effect on atmospheric electricity as weather events.
Fruitful Gifts from Busy Bees
Planting hedges and flower strips in orchards helps to support wild bee communities, thereby improving pollination.
Diverse Bumbling
Bumblebees are important pollinators but are suffering from population declines due to land use intensification and the effects of the climate crisis. New research has used citizen science data to develop potential conservation strategies for the future of bumblebees.
Beyond the Beeline
Bumbling in the breeze, your banded body drifts casually into view. Flower waker, pollinator. Every lacy step a careful caress across the countless faces of
The Tragedy of the Bees
Weighed down by the delights of an afternoon’s jumbled scavenging you zigzag drunkenly across the sky; tumbling through monocultures to the wild abandon of your
Roadside Pollination
Fleeing down grassy corridors from whirring teeth that hack at your habitat with ill-managed discipline; this rich mossy canvas spat out as loamy clots, to
A Local Disappearance
Your recent absences have become More pronounced; The late spring evenings are no longer Alive with the industry of your approach, And the flowers in