10 Plagues of Egypt Bingo is a game you just don’t want to win. East Africa is yet to tick off rivers of blood, death of firstborns and thunderstorms of hail and fire, but they […]
Banishing Blights on Bees
Scientists from The University of Texas, Austin, recently found genetic alterations in bacteria which live in bees’ guts to be successful at killing Varroa Mite, an Asian native mite that kills honey bees, as the […]
Students swarm campus for a jar of Laidlaw honey
After a year of toil, the fifty thousand British bees of Laidlaw Library’s roof garden have yielded their first batch of honey. The occasion marks a successful year for the university’s bee programme. In a […]
Honey, we shrunk the bees: bee population endangered
Although bees are a vital part of our food chain their importance has often been overlooked. However, the recent acknowledgement by the USFWS (US Fish and Wildlife Service) – that seven bee species are now […]