At WorkThese photos, which show a natural honeybee nest, add clarity to the way honeybees live in the wild. Here, worker bees construct new comb out of beeswax as others zoom into the woodpecker ...

The study reveals that current pesticide risk assessments, which primarily use honeybees as test subjects, fail to account for the unique vulnerabilities of wild bees that nest in soil.

There are over 250 species of bee in the UK, of which 178 species have been recorded in Wales. The majority of these are solitary bees, but some, like the better-known bumblebees and honeybee, are ...