Tag: bees
Edinburgh Honey Company teams with Fingal to create a buzz on World Bee Day
The family-owned honey firm is working with Edinburgh’s luxury floating hotel & restaurant, to raise awareness of the importance of bees and beekeeping on May 20th.For the first time in its 60-year history, the...
Council’s use of toxic weed killer increases
Use of a toxic weed killer which threatens bee colonies and has been linked with cases of cancer has hit a six-year high in Edinburgh despite a council commitment to cut down.Nearly 4,000 litres...
Making it easy to grow flowers for the bees
HONEY COMPANY WILL HELP YOU FEED THE BEESKinross based Webster Honey has launched an affordable Wild Flower Seed Bomb to help provide wild flowers for bees.Bees continue to decline with recent figures revealing that...
Visit the Greenman for some Christmas magic!
There are rather a lot of trees about just now - and there will be even more lying forlornly by the roadside in a few weeks' time. If you're a little fed up with...
Counterpoint: a new exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery
A bowling alley, bee hives and some politically-dependent cannons: these are just some of the pieces included in the Talbot Rice Gallery's new show, Counterpoint. It is, says Principal Curator Pat Fisher, 'an intelligent...
Government Survey shows many colonies of bees lost last winter
Bee-keeping is an important occupation, whether it is a pastime or an industry, and not just in the countryside. The Queen keeps bees on the roofs of properties in Regent Street in London and...
National Bees for Everyone campaign
National ‘Bees for Everyone’ campaign calls on gardeners to help the humble bumblebeeAn ambitious project to help the UK’s bumblebees aims to get the nation buzzing. Bumblebee numbers have declined steeply because agricultural changes have destroyed their...
Edinburgh’s buzzing about bees!
Edinburgh has been chosen as one of four UK cities to help save pollinating insects, such as bees, which are on the decline.A biodiversity officer from City of Edinburgh Council will work with Edinburgh...
