The dish uses drone bee larvae, which organic beekeepers get rid of anyway, once they have matured, because they attract mites.

In addition to beehives, the remains of bees and bee larvae and pupae were also found.

As in the case of most bees, adult willow mining bees drink nectar, whereas willow mining bee larvae feed both on nectar and pollen.

The hornets often attack hives to obtain the honey bee larvae as food for their own larvae.

When exposed in the laboratory to chlorpyrifos at levels roughly estimated from measurements in hives, bee larvae experienced 60% mortality over 6 days, compared with 15% mortality in controls.

Pour the smoothie into 2 serving glasses and garnish with a generous sprinkle of cacao nibs and bee pollen.

Porridge with flax seeds and bee pollen.

These days, dishes dripping with gravy and grease are as likely to be feted as those dotted with foams and bee pollen.

The very best dish was a dessert - 'milk and honey', a blend of dehydrated milk foam and bee pollen that will truly take you to the promised land.

His diet included eating fresh raw bee pollen.

About a third of all plants or plant products eaten by humans depend on bee pollination.

A third of the food we eat relies on bee pollination, from veggies to the grains that animals are fed.

Bees play an important role in agriculture, with the value of commercial crops that benefit from bee pollination estimated at 100 million to 200 million a year.

Hybrid canola also requires bee pollination, and some beekeepers service this need.

Many bee species are in steep decline with agrochemicals called neonicotinoids thought to be a key cause.

Orthoptera, which include grasshoppers and crickets, are down about 50 percent, and about 40 percent of bee species are now vulnerable to extinction.

Populations of most bee species are in freefall, partly because of infection.

Conservationists warn that many wild bee species are in decline and want more protection for pollinating insects, whose activities are worth an estimated £700 million a year to farmers.

Honeybees are talented linguists capable of understanding what other bee species are communicating, scientists have found.

Every orchestral detail spoke too, from the spare, bony duet between claves and piano to the bee swarm punctuated by folk song.

The buzz of performance, in other words, except in his case it was always more like the cacophony of a bee swarm.

Sometimes a bee swarm will invade a rival hive, expelling its inhabitants, ripping the covers off the honeycomb cells and drinking up the honey.

When the elephants hit the rope, the bees swarm and the elephants retreat.

Bees swarm over the honeysuckle; a brook babbles under the bridge that leads to the door.

Wild bee numbers have also been going down rapidly.

Conservationists warn that many wild bee species are in decline and want more protection for pollinating insects, whose activities are worth an estimated £700 million a year to farmers.

They said this finding might go some way to explaining declines in honeybee and wild bee populations throughout the northern hemisphere.

Wild bee populations have fallen by up to 20 per cent in 18 years.

Wild bee species have declined by more than 20 per cent over the past decade because of neonicotinoid pesticides, a study has found.