The World in a Jar
Consider a jar of honey on your breakfast table, ready to spread on your toast. Bees make honey from nectar. Nectar is sugary plant sap. The bees take the nectar back to the hive and concentrate it...
View ArticleGovernment Posturing on Pesticides a Busted Flush
Damian Carrington writes a good piece in the Guardian describing how the EFSA have concluded that the much trumpeted ‘evidence’ that UK government ministers constantly quote supporting neonics is, in...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Irony from Bayer
Bayer, the company that makes insecticides that harm bees, has come up with the ultimate irony: buy their Provado Ultimate Bug Killer and get a free packet of bee seeds. Their publicity continues the...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Irony from within
This morning (Friday at 0545hrs) I was on my way to work listening to Radio 4’s Farming Today program. The first item up was an interview with Margaret Ginman, a spokeswoman from the Bee Farmers...
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