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A honey bee flies with pollen balls stored in pollen baskets (corbiculae) on its hind legs. (Photo credit: Jennie Durant) Bitter Honey by Jenny Durant

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91av recommends a devastating account of farming honeybees

Jennie Durant's Bitter Honey is a great exposé of the true cost of industrially farming US honeybees, finds Thomas Lewton. But the book's grim figures of bee death alone may not prompt deep change – how about seeing them as fellow creatures?

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The long-overlooked insects that could save our crops

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Honeybees are getting confused by electric pollution from power lines

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Largest ever US honeybee die-off has destroyed 1.6 million colonies

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Plants laced with a variety of fungi are more popular with bees

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Antidote to deadly pesticides boosts bee survival

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The days when the flowers produce lots of nectar, the bees remain outside the hive fanning, to better dehydrate the nectar when the forager bees come back from their journeys.///Les jours ou les fleurs donnent beaucoup de nectar, les abeilles restent ? ventiler ? l?ext?rieur de la ruche pour mieux d?shydrater le nectar pendant que les butineuses rentre de leurs voyages.

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How clues in honey can help fight our biggest biodiversity challenges

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Watch bees defend their nest by slapping ants with their wings

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Asian hornets have overwintered in the UK for the first time

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Experience the world from a bee's perspective

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Experience the world from a bee's perspective

A multi-sensory exhibition by artist Wolfgang Buttress allows us to experience the world as a bee and imagine the devastation of our planet without them

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Rising temperatures are cooking bumblebee nests and killing larvae

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These stunning close-up photos offer a window onto the world of bees

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Sleeping bumblebees can survive underwater for a week

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Bees miss out on sleep if they are exposed to light at night

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