We found universally positive associations of fruit set with flower visitation by wild insects in 41 crop systems worldwide.

Information provided by Byzantine Hagiography relating to the production, collection and consumption of honey is not copious but unique.

You might think honeybees are thriving – after all, the honey industry is growing and its bees are well looked after by beekeepers. But not all honeybees live in hives.

The European Commission has proposed a ban on three neonicotinoids – imidacloprid,clothianidin and thiamethoxam  – on all crops with the exception of crops grown in permanent greenhouses, “where the crop stays its entire life cycle within the greenhouse and is thus not replanted outside”

Doctor Alfred Dietz, from America, was invited to Paris by ANERCEA to give a conference on the theme of "Wintering Fertilized Queens in Banks".

The EFSA Panel on Animal Health and Welfare, together with the Panel on Plant Health, is working on the HEALTHY-B self-mandate that has the objective to map indicators and factors that could be
included in large field studies

In July 2009, a group of entomologists and ornithologists met at Notre Dame de Londres, a small village in the French department of Hérault, as a result of an international enquiry amongst entomologists on the catastrophic decline of insects (and arthropods in general) all over Europe.