Over the past few years, I’ve seen a number of books about bees cross my desk. From reading and reviewing them I’ve learned quite a lot about these amazing creatures; their biology, their ecological significance, and – as particularly emphasized in so many of these books – the challenges they face surviving in the modern […]
For years we’ve been hearing story after story about the importance of conserving honeybees – specifically the European Honeybee, Apis mellifera. Then on 26 January 2018, Science magazine published “Conserving honey bees does not help wildlife” by Jonas Geldmann and Juan P. González-Varo, in which the authors reported that “managed honey bees can harm wild pollinator species.”