Amazon running low on the one-and-only perfect gift for a beekeeper, The Beekeeper's Dictionary
Well worth a read: https://news.broadcastmediaafrica.com/2026/09/03/bma-feature-kenyan-researchers-harness-artificial-intelligence-to-revolutionise-beekeeping/
Full story here: https://www.euronews.com/2026/08/30/hungarys-bee-population-at-risk-warns-national-beekeepers-association
Website for the National Hungarian Beekeeping Association: https://www.omme.hu/
Research from the University of Freiburg, Germany, appears to show that bees follow individual flight paths when foraging.
My summary: The waggle dance is imprecise ("there's nectar about X distance away at this approximate bearing") but when an individual bee has found a nectar source it can navigate very accurately to-and-from the source.
Here's one of the diagrams from the paper.
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On the left, the purple lines are next to the green lines. In the middle, the four sets of green lines are labelled blue, green, orange and yellow. Are you paying attention? Some of the flights are from the hive (outbound) and some of the flights are to the hive (inbound), which is a relief for all concerned. |
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(26)00084-9
Yep, a study from the University of Sussex has discovered that honeybees struggle to gather nectar in late July and in August.
In other news, the Pope is said to be Catholic, and ursines are known to defecate in sylvan areas.
Read the research here: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.70429
Plenty of Asian hornets in Porto, Portugal, buzzing us both in the centre of town and in the botanical gardens.
Early research based on a very small sample of five colonies with five control colonies: ecoportal.net/en/experiments-waggle-dancer-found-every-american/30786/
Draw votre own conclusions...
Another nail in the Intelligent Design coffin: https://www.sci.news/paleontology/apis-aibai-14949.html
Bee-washing story from E.ON: https://news.eonenergy.com/news/pollination-station-our-blackburn-meadows-energy-plant-is-abuzz-with-new-neighbours
A pity the copywriter didn't go full throttle for the bee wordage. For example: A new building has joined E.ON’s design award-winning Blackburn Meadows renewable energy park – but while this one is also a real hive of activity, it won’t be dominating the Sheffield skyline as much. That’s because the biomass (or should that be bee-omas?) power station has welcomed its first hives, giving thousands of pollinators a home as part of its work to support the local environment.
Came across this site: Edinburgh Honey Co, https://miod.co/
'Miod' is Polish for 'mead,' obviously.
