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191024 | New B-Lines to put the buzz back into Cornwall

New B-Lines to put the buzz back into Cornwall

An ambitious new plan for helping our bees, butterflies, hoverflies and other pollinating insects is being launched today by Buglife, the University of Exeter and Cornwall Council.

Cornwall B-Lines will create rivers of wildflowers across the countryside connecting the county’s best wildlife sites from coast to coast, and from our towns to the countryside.  read more »

140910 | Duchy Supports Project to Save Cornish Black Honey Bees

Duchy Supports Project to Save Cornish Black Honey Bees

The Prince of Wales meets Andrew Brown, Lt. Col. Bentham-Green and Rodger Dewhurst from the B4 Project at Duchy of Cornwall Nursery in July 2014.

The Duchy of Cornwall is supporting a project to save the Cornish remnants of the native Black Honey Bee.  read more »

Cornish Black Honey Bee (Apis mellifera mellifera or Amm)

Facts about the Cornish Black Bee  read more »

Bee friendly...

£1.8 billion cost of replacing bee pollination 28% Cornish bumblebees now extinct
Top tips to help pollinators: 1. Create homes; 2, Be less tidy!
Top tips to help pollinators: 3 Plant, 4 Go organic, 5 Ditch pesticides
Let your garden go wild to help the bees

130610 | Rare Cornish black honeybee found to resist colony collapse virus

Rare Cornish black honeybee found to resist colony collapse virus


10 Jun 2013
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    The Dark Bee Apis mellifera mellifera in the United Kingdom

    The Dark Bee Apis mellifera mellifera in the United Kingdom

    The article below is based on a lecture given by Philip Denwood to the SICAMM Conference in Landquart, Switzerland, on 1st September 2012  read more »

    190521 | Let your garden go wild to help bees and butterflies

    £1.8 billion cost of replacing bee pollination 28% Cornish bumblebees now extinct
    Top tips to help pollinators: 1. Create homes; 2, Be less tidy!
    Top tips to help pollinators: 3 Plant, 4 Go organic, 5 Ditch pesticides

    Let your garden go wild to help bees and butterflies

    I’ve always thought of my garden as rather messy, but actually, it’s pretty environmentally-friendly, with loads of daisies like this, for starters …  read more »

    Moss Carder Bee (Bombus muscorum)

    Moss Carder Bee

    Bombus muscorum  read more »