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European Union member states banned the outdoor use of neonicotinoid pesticides in 2018. The ban was hailed as a "major victory” by campaigners, as various studies showed the dangers the chemicals pose to bees and other pollinators. Michal Gove, who was Environment Secretary at the time, supported the ban and said the restrictions would be kept following Brexit. But the government has since approved the use of one neonicotinoid pesticide to tackle a crop disease affecting sugar beet. Professor Dave Goulson Professor of biology Dave Goulson, who specialises in ecology and conservat...

© Supplied by Aberdeen University Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Researchers at Aberdeen University have teamed up with bumblebee enthusiasts across the country to help carry out the latest research into the best pollinating plants to have in our gardens. More than 6,000 data entries gathered through BeeWatch, a UK-wide citizen scientist programme, will now inform compilers of bumblebee-specific lists of plants and...

Loading video... VIDEO: Video showing the movement of tagged bees in a garden, as detected by the monochrome Raspberry Pi camera view more  Credit: Video by Michael Smith A team of researchers from the University of Sheffield and The Bumblebee Conservation Trust have been trialling new, low-cost ways to monitor bee species in the UK, by dressing bees in high visibility retroreflective vests. This novel research will be presented at the British Ecological Society's virtual Festival of Ecology. Researchers attached retroreflective tags to seven species of wild bee and to a commercially b...

Help bugs and bees in Caithness with B-Lines By David G Scott  |  Updated: 14:17, 10 December 2020 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper This week, conservation charity Buglife is launching a B-Lines map for the Highlands that could help the dwindling numbers of great yellow bumblebees found in Caithness. B-Lines is the charity's response to the decline of bees and other pollinating insects and provides a plan for how to reconnect the country's wild places by creating a network of wildflowers across the land. Bom...