RECENT warm Mediterranean breezes provided a welcome nudge for our reluctant spring. Slow-to-awaken leaves unfurled from swollen buds and the warm air encouraged many insects out on the wing. One in ...

The global diversity of plants being cultivated by Britain's gardeners is playing a key role in the fight to save the nation's threatened bumblebees, new research has revealed. Ecologists at Plymouth ...

In mid-July, Villu Soon, a biology researcher at the University of Tartu Natural History Museum, spotted the Bombus sporadicus Nylander near Lahemaa National Park. Despite being previously designated ...

The life of that happy gardener, the poor old bumble bee (bombus hortorum), continues its fitful journey from parasites, pesticides and habitat loss to global warming. Last week, a scientific study ...