Bees

A great yellow bumblebee

Bees found to be making nests during Scottish winter a 'worrying' sign

Bumblebees have evolved to end their winter hibernation in response to mild temperatures, but climate change means this is no longer a reliable guide (Picture: Christopher Furlong)

How climate change is laying a deadly trap for Scotland's bumblebees Scotsman comment

Verbier and the Val de Bagnes in the summer. Credit: Lucia Harrison/Verbier Tourisme

Dodge the Verbier crowds and visit in the summer for great gastronomy

Lack of dead insects on windscreens a sign of staggering changes to nature Philip Lymbery

An estimated 180,000 bees were found in the property's bedroom ceiling. Picture: Andrew Card/Loch Ness Honey Company

Watch: The 180,000 bees discovered in Scottish home

A colony of over 180,000 bees were found in a bedroom ceiling, and relocated by Beekeeper Andrew Card of the Loch Ness Honey Company.

Watch: I found 180,000 bees living in my bedroom ceiling

Asian hornets are smaller than native hornets, but deadly to our bees and other pollinators (Photo: Wildlife and Countryside Link/PA Wire)

Killer insects invade UK

Bees are having a tough time of it at the moment - but we can all do our bit to help them out.

How to get your garden buzzing with bees

Unlike our bees, the weird dead lion of the syrup tin was always there Laura Waddell

Ivan Toney has not played for eight months but will make his Brentford return against Nottingham Forest.

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Aaron Hickey has won 11 caps for Scotland.

Hickey 'wanted by three clubs in £50m transfer chase'

A three-day-old car was swarmed by thousands of bees, leaving its owner stunned. (SWNS)

Driver stunned to find brand new car covered in bees

Charlotte Blackler tends her bees at the apipod.

The UK's first 'bee therapy' retreat has been launched in Scotland

‘Army’ of bees force English Heritage castle closure as ‘terrified’ locals caught in massive swarm

‘Army’ of bees forces English castle to shut

Ivan Toney has been in stunning form for Brentford since joining from Peterborough.

How close Celtic came to signing Brentford and England hitman Toney

Why is there a dead lion on Lyle’s Golden Syrup tin?

Kristoffer Ajer in action for Brentford.

Brentford keeper injured saving Ajer's penalty

Asian hornet alert as insects spotted in UK

Reintroducing bee species that became extinct in Britain has proved difficult. Much better to save them from that fate (Picture: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP via Getty Images)

Bees, ambassadors of the natural world, have an important message for humanity

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Aaron Hickey made his debut for Scotland last month.

Napoli linked with move for Hickey

This the number of food items we'll lose if bees go extinct - from curry to bake...

Kristoffer Ajer is in the final 12 months of his contract at Celtic. Picture: SNS

Kristoffer Ajer 'close to leaving Celtic as fee agreed'

Chris Turnbull at The Kitchin

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Griff Rhys Jones is a batty beekeeper as Neil Dudgeon is on the trail of more Midsomer Murders

Nicola Walker in Unforgotten needs Nicola Sturgeon's powers of escapology

Reports of Asian hornets invading the UK during the summer have been common over the past few years, with media reports in recent weeks warning of ‘murder hornets’ potentially invading the UK (Photo: Shutterstock)

Here’s how to tell Asian hornets apart from bees and wasps - and what to do if y...

Neil Lennon is still on the look-out for a midfiedler

'Unfinished business' - Celtic target has say on opportunity to return to his fo...

The Lion King, featuring the voices of John Oliver as Zazu and JD McCrary as Young Simba PIC: © 2019 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Niamh Eyles 6, Francesca Wright, 11, Alexander Wright, 9, and a beekeeper from the world bee project

Happy Bee-Day event. Pic: Lisa Ferguson

Bees are the focus of Ross Fountain restoration anniversary in Princes Street Ga...

Robert Rowan, pictured during an event at Hampden in 2016. Picture: SNS Group

Robert Rowan, Brentford FC Technical Director, dies aged 28

Bees are facing a number of problems, including climate change, pesticides, disease and changes in land use (Picture: PA)

Jim Jeffrey: Bees '“ and wasps '“ are in trouble but here's how to help

Photo: Rex/Shutterstock.

Scots urged to help save '˜frugal' native honey bee

Members of Newbattle Beekeepers Association, who are in their new Beekeeping Academy, in a converted WW2 hut at Newbattle Abbey College

Newbattle beekeepers buzzing about new academy.

The government hope to save bees and butterflies with new plans. Picture: Frank Bienewald/imageBROKER/REX/Shutterstock

Scottish Government plan to save bees and butterflies

Tiny aerials allowed scientists to track the bees using radio signals. Picture: PA

Bees have distinct personalities to find nectar, study reveals

Toumani Diagouraga is reportedly holding talks with Leeds. Picture: Getty Images

Rangers miss out as Toumani Diagouraga joins Leeds

A female volcano hummingbird feeding on Fuchsia magellanica. Picture: PA

How nature finds a way to pollinate flowers

Heather moorland is most prominent on grouse managed moorland, where heather is a central part of the red grouses diet. Picture: TSPL

Red grouse boost for Scottish bees and honey producers

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Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis in Jupiter Ascending. Picture: Warner Bros / Village Roadshow Pictures / The Kobal Collection ]

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Macleod: "Nothing on the playing side made me want to move from Rangers." Picture: SNS

Lewis Macleod: I didn’t want to leave Rangers

Picture: Helen Pugh

Mark Winston: Saving bees can teach us lessons
HONEYBEES are hurting, with one-third of all colonies dying annually across most of the world. Beekeepers can barely maintain hive numbers in their apiaries, sp...

Picture: TSPL

13-month-old girl dies at Edinburgh nursery

The bees are helping produce a sustainable source of food. Picture: Bumblebee Conservation Trust

Bees create buzz for Castle Stuart Golf Links

Illustration: Iain Green

The Scotsman cartoon: Bees at Scottish Parliament

The European tree bumblebee arrived in Scotland last year. Picture: Nick Owens

Experts debate invasion of alien bumblebees

A beekeeper with one of his hives. A survey found 79 per cent of beekeepers lost one or more colonies last year. Picture: Dan Phillips

Scottish bee deaths double in a single year

A mine clearer searches for land mines left over from the 1990s Balkans war, in Petrinja, central Croatia. Picture: AP

Croatia: Bees taking the sting out of mine clearing

Yeovil and Brentford on their way to Wembley

Ex-Hibee Graham Stack becomes Barnet hero

Victor Contini says the National Gallery roof would be an ideal site for hives. Picture: Neil Hanna

Art of beekeeping will keep gallery in the honey

Robert Florence and Iain Connell in Enlighten Up! Picture: Hopscotch Films

Arts blog: Getting kids into Hume with wigs and superheroes

Pesticide trials

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Honey bee survival rate better in west of Scotland

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