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Bumblebees have been found to be starting nests in the depths of winter due to climate change, say conservationists. The ...

Crops that depend on pollination are five times more valuable than those that do not. Social bees, such as honeybees and bumblebees, often live in hives or nests, above or below the ground, while most ...

And honey bees have queens ... don't even live in groups. They do just fine without queens or colonies. Instead, a single female lays eggs in a simple nest, either inside a plant stem or an ...

There are over 250 species of bee in the UK, of which 178 species have been recorded in Wales. The majority of these are solitary bees, but some, like the better-known bumblebees and honeybee, are ...

Buglife said active worker bumblebees, which do most of the work in a ... at least two of the UK's 25 species of bumblebee were believed to have started nest-building early. A lack of flowers ...

On a foggy day, Kirk Visscher examines honey bees settling on the nest box they have chosen and to which the swarm has flown. The camera is recording the flight tracks of bees against the sky.

"With honey bees, the hornets do something called 'hawking' - hovering outside the bees' nest and attacking returning foragers as they fly past. "We recorded hornets doing the same thing to ...

A great yellow bumblebee, one of the rarest bumblebees in the UK Buglife said the nests were at risk at this time of year because of the cold snaps that can hit in between spells of increasingly ...