Dec 6, 2011
Oct 25, 2011
Termites are not so different to bees in many ways: both are social insects that live in large colonies and have several castes. Both use grooming as a first-line defence against potentially damaging diseases.
Bayer sells a pestide called Premise that kills termites, which they market on the strength of its ability to...
Sep 5, 2011
I came away from the conference with several hours of audio recordings and after many more hours of editing, the result is a sort of impressionistic sound picture, which I hope you find interesting.
Some of the background music was provided by Homebrewed - http://www.myspace.com/homebrood_the_band/music - with Dan on...
Aug 9, 2011
David Heaf is well known as the translator - together with his wife, Patricia - of the Abbé Warré's book about 'The People's Hive' into English. He gave the keynote speech at the First UK Natural Beekeeping Conference, which was warmly received and which generated much friendly discussion.
David's new book, 'The...
Aug 2, 2011
Italian beekeepers Renato Bologna and Marisa Valente have vowed to 'eat like bees' in protest against the use of neonicotinoids. They say that they now have scientific proof that pesticides are killing their bees, and they want the Italian govenment to take action to ban neonicotinoids on all crops. At present, their...