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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And the bees nest in those holes and they cut the leaves ... So I do a lot of work with public participation. So we do bumblebee surveys across the state. So we have individuals that adopt a ...

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.

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 ...