07-10-2011Approximately 70% of the tropical crop species depend on pollinators for optimum yields. The economic value of such pollinated crops…
06-10-2011The days of empty boxes being filled by swarms are over. Unless your bees are on a Eucalyptus honey flow…
04-10-2011Fresh potatoes (228 samples) from 34 farmers’ markets in Alberta were analyzed for 29 pesticides. Residues of three different pesticides…
04-10-2011Pollinators are an essential part of a garden; so essential in fact, that 90 percent of the 250,000 flowering species…
04-10-2011The lofty western Himalayas are being slowly robbed of their butterflies, with at least 50% of species showing a massive…
03-10-2011Britain’s 30 million hedgehogs have been reduced to 1.3 million in the last 50 years. Three quarters of butterfly species…
03-10-2011THE number of butterflies in Scotland hit an all-time low. Butterfly Conservation said the number of individual butterflies recorded was…
02-10-2011A new report on Australian birds has added four more species to the critically endangered list and found that a…
01-10-2011New Delhi: Red Pierrot, Common Lime, Plain Tiger, Blue Pansy or the Common Castor may be unfamiliar names to most…
30-09-2011Farmland birds are important indicators of the ecological health of our countryside and the recently published figures show how bad…
