Family-oriented and nest-proud, these bees will aggressively defend their hive ... The ambitious scientist aimed to isolate traits of each species and breed them into a new subspecies, combining the ...

Other honey bee farmers in the area around Cape Town have also been affected, but it is still unclear how many of the insects have died, he said. Fipronil has been blamed for the deaths of ...

The bees were now at the home of his brother, a beekeeper, and would be taken to farms, Mr Dawson said. Mike Miles, the chairman of the South African Bee Industry Association, said the bees were ...