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From flower emblazoned cemeteries to rooftop gardens and balconies, Norway's capital Oslo is creating a "bee highway" to protect endangered pollinators essential to food production.

• 25 июня 2015, 13:00

Honeybees probably originated in Asia, not Africa, said scientists who had teased interesting tidbits from the busy little pollinators' genome.

• 25 августа 2014, 10:05

Venom from one of the world's most poisonous spiders may help save the world's honeybees, providing a biopesticide that kills pests but spares the precious pollinators, a study said.

• 05 июня 2014, 02:04

Bee venom to combat multiple sclerosis, pollen for indigestion, honey to heal wounds -- the humble bee has been a key source of alternative medicines since ancient times, and Romania is working to keep the tradition of "apitherapy" alive.

• 11 апреля 2014, 10:49

Many countries in Europe face a worrying lack of crop-pollinating honeybees, a problem caused mainly by an EU policy shift in favour of biofuels.

• 10 января 2014, 09:59

Bees have a much greater economic value than is widely known, according to a scientific probe into strawberry-growing published on Wednesday.

• 04 декабря 2013, 15:39

Patients in China are swarming to acupuncture clinics to be given bee stings to treat or ward off life-threatening illness.

• 14 августа 2013, 13:56

Kazakhstan President promised government subsidies to bee farmers of North-Kazakhstan oblast to help them develop anew breed of bees.

• 11 сентября 2011, 17:54