Environment | The Guardian USExperts sound alarm as North America’s bees start swarm season unusually early https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/17/north-america-bees-early-swarm-season #Bees #Environment #ClimateCrisis #Insects #UsNews #Animals
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Front Page [Unofficial]Firefighters broke out their hoses to save 25 million bees from an overheating truck
Animal of ThingsBeekeeping Laws in Alabama: What Every Beekeeper Needs to Know
Alabama is one of the more regulation-forward states when it comes to beekeeping, and that structure exists for a good reason. Nearly one-third of the food we eat depends directly on insect pollination, and honey bees pollinate more than 100 agricultural crops in the United States — making the health of every apiary a matter of statewide agricultural interest. Whether you plan to keep a single backyard hive or manage hundreds of colonies across multiple sites, Alabama law treats every […]
Paul NoëlA dizzy Bee – an illustration from Busy Bee and the Silent Spring
In this illustration from Busy Bee and the Silent Spring one of the bees starts to feel very dizzy. The story is all about Bea and her friends who live in Old Oak Meadow trying to discover why all the inhabitants of the meadow are feeling unwell. This leads them to a bad farmer who is using banned pesticides. The story is written for the 8-12 year old reader and features a very special bee call Bea and many other creatures. The title is taken from the amazing Rachel Carson’s book and her fight against the agrochemical industry, the title of which is Silent Spring. I named the book in her honour.
It’s available globally on different Amazon websites and here are a couple of links https://www.amazon.co.uk/Busy-Silent-Spring-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B088JFN1ZV/ and https://www.amazon.com/Busy-Silent-Spring-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B088JFN1ZV/.
There are also T-shirts and long sleeve T-shirts available for children of the cover artwork with or without the book title, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/collection/kids/.
Busy Bee and the Silent Spring with book title V1B-CSilent Spring cover with book title kids organic cotton T-shirtBusy Bee and the Silent Spring with book title long sleeve T-shirtSilent Spring cover no logo no titles V1Our links
See more of Alice Wrights’ wonderful art, https://www.hireanillustrator.com/i/portfolio/alice-wright/ or Instagram @alicewrightillustration or Facebook @alicewrightillustrates.
Our Teemill shop site for our organic cotton clothes and bags, https://scientistandphilosopher.com/.
My author page where you can discover more about my books, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L.
Our Etsy shop, https://junagarhmedia.etsy.com.
This is our website for all our photography and my books, https://www.junagarhmedia.co.uk/.
We are also on Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/21104365@N06/.
Also on Instagram, https://www.instagram.com/junagarh_media/.
On Pinterest, https://www.pinterest.co.uk/paulpaddington2017/
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ElizabethA bumblebee visited my Lithodora this morning!
I didn't get any pictures because I was busy oohing over this comparatively massive bee visiting my tiny little blue flowers, but it made me happy to see. ^_^
The Bee Guy#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.
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The hairs on bumblebee tongues are merely hundreds of micrometers long.
Many closely spaced hairs create a myriad of tiny gaps that hold nectar by surface tension - a microscopic sponge trapping nectar on the tongue.
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CaryThere was a busy little bee visiting every flower on the sweet potato vine yesterday.
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Galactic StoneI call a group of bumblebees or chonky carpenter bees a "squadron".
That's not official nomenclature, but it's more fun to me. 🐝