September 2015

Thank you Michael Sutton for this informative little film about honeybees: "Apis Mellifera: Honey Bee" a high-speed short from Michael N Sutton / @MNS1974 on Vimeo. I have signed this. Perhaps you would like to as well? http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=16305 It is good to hear that British urban bees are surviving and should point the way for…

A Highway for Bees from Norway http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ I think this is such a terrific and fun initiative http://www.telegraph.co.uk BEE NEWS from FRANCE The Minister of Agriculture in France is calling for a label for French Honey http://www.lemonde.fr And here, the Prinicipality of Monaco is supporting Beekeeping. Installing hives and teaching beekeeping to school children https://www.facebook.com

Pro-active Canadian beekeepers. Terrific. Let us hope that they win I wish them every success. http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/canadian-beekeepers-sue-bayer-syngenta-over-neonicotinoid-pesticides-1.2754441 Do bees prefer city flowers to country flowers? Those flower patches squeezed into postage stamp–sized spaces in cities do much more than add a splash of color to the urban environment. The 30,000 schoolchildren in the Big Bumblebee Discovery…

This Facebook page is wonderful, do take time to look through it. It offers many other links to Bee Awareness too. You may want to sign this petition This is fun – how to build a bumblebee nest This seems to be an excellent Dutch site from the university of Utrecht regarding the decreasing numbers…

Bees’ Gifts for your Valentine – please support this and share it http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/o/1881/p/salsa/web/common/public/content?content_item_KEY=13426 As an organic farmer and someone who fights for the protection of our bees, I request you please to sign this and to pass it on. If you don’t speak French: it is the plea of a young viticulture, Emmanuel Giboulot, who…

This is such a lovely story… This is fascinating short piece about Bee’s Intelligence U.S. agencies need better data to protect bees, watchdog says Was a USDA scientist muzzled because of his bee research?