Wasps: why I love them, and why you should too

By Seirian Sumner, The Conversation

Wasps are important facets of the natural world and have much to offer us, if we’d only take more notice.

Baby bees love carbs, experiments show – here’s why that matters

By James Gilbert, Elizabeth Duncan, The Conversation

By considering the nuances of bees’ dietary needs, we can design nutritionally balanced seed mixes that help pollinators shore up our ecosystems and food supplies.

Bee Roadzz

By Milly Carmichael, Transition Network

Transition Marlborough wanted to help save the bees so they started joining up landscapes to connect pollinators and people.This is the story of a small, local project to help bees.

“Which species are we sure we can survive without?” Revisited

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

We have eliminated the species around us with reckless abandon and without concern for whether we can survive without them. An alarming new study suggests a rapidly accelerating decline in worldwide insect populations. Can we survive without the insects of the world?

Harmony in the Hive: What Bees Need

By Bonnie Welch, Sustainable Food Trust

To live in harmony with nature, we too must become stewards of natural capital, acknowledging and nurturing vitally important species like bees, the original stewards of the land.

Malaise Traps

By Helen Jukes, Dark Mountain Project

Some days I can’t tell if honeybees are coming or going. In a sense, they’re everywhere – collecting on our shelves, decorating our homes. And yet, elsewhere, out there, where the real bees live, we’re told there are losses and declines and last month I heard a new word, insectageddon.

There’s Something Wrong with the Bees: On Sun Hives and Crisis Houses

By Carrie Foulkes, The Dark Mountain Project

In considering the Sun Hive alongside my personal experiences of distress, I do not mean to use the bees as a metaphor, to plunder nature for her poetry. Instead I wish to suggest that our reductive attitudes towards both bees and human health may be symptomatic of a prevailing mindset of exploitation and control.

Little Insects, Big Impact

By Daniela Frechero, Monica Pelliccia, Adelina Zarlenga, Andrea Lucio, New Internationalist

Parthiban is not the only one to recognize the high value of pollinators in improving the crop production, which in turn improves the quality of life, nutrition and well-being of the Indian people.

What’s the Best Way to Improve Bee Habitat?

By Lindsey Konkel, Ensia

Large-scale landscape change — loss of wildflower-rich prairies to crop monoculture or conversion of open lands to suburban development, for instance — is a threat to pollinators and may play a major role in declines by making it harder for bees and other pollinators to find a meal.

Urban Beekeeper Delivers Pollinators by Bike to Community Gardens Across Chicago

By Karen Briner, Seedstock

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Vanishing Act: Why Insects Are Declining and Why It Matters

By Christian Schwägerl, Yale Environment 360

Insect populations are declining dramatically in many parts of the world, recent studies show. Researchers say various factors, from monoculture farming to habitat loss, are to blame for the plight of insects, which are essential to agriculture and ecosystems.

Beyond Honeybees: Pollinator-Friendly Farming for the Future

By Janet McGarry, Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture

Imagine a world without strawberries, apples, chocolate, coffee, squash, or almonds.