bees – Sublime https://sublimemagazine.com Inspiration for a Sustainable World Sun, 06 Apr 2025 08:04:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/sublimemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Sublime_Logo.jpeg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 bees – Sublime https://sublimemagazine.com 32 32 243252845 Bring back pollinators https://sublimemagazine.com/bring-back-pollinators/ Sat, 06 May 2023 12:37:33 +0000 https://sublimemagazine.com/?p=19625 Why don’t insects splat onto our car windscreens anymore? Because insect populations are in decline. Most worryingly, we’re losing the pollinators we need for the food chain, including bees and butterflies.

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]]> 19625 What’s Good for the Bee is Good for the Hive https://sublimemagazine.com/good-for-the-bee-and-the-hive/ https://sublimemagazine.com/good-for-the-bee-and-the-hive/#respond Mon, 16 Jun 2014 09:24:17 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/good-for-the-bee-and-the-hive/ Good for the Bee and the Beehive Over ten years ago, shortly after leaving a fashion and textiles course, I took a weekend job in a holistic remedy shop to help support myself while studying at university. What started as an essentially superficial process of clearing my post-pubescent complexion soon transformed into a fascination for...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/good-for-the-bee-and-the-hive/feed/ 0 13105 More Than Honey https://sublimemagazine.com/more-than-honey/ https://sublimemagazine.com/more-than-honey/#respond Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:56:14 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/more-than-honey/ One in every three bites of food we eat comes from a pollinated plant or an animal that depends on bee pollination. So bees are absolutely essential to human beings and our nutrition. In recent years, however, bees have mysteriously been disappearing on a large scale without returning to their hives. Depending on the area...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/more-than-honey/feed/ 0 12900 Plight of the Honeybee https://sublimemagazine.com/plight-of-the-honeybee/ https://sublimemagazine.com/plight-of-the-honeybee/#respond Tue, 22 May 2012 12:03:28 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/plight-of-the-honeybee/ In the US commercial beekeeping has all but vanished and in its place we see investment in ‘industrial-scale’ hives, a practice which sees colonies of bees trucked around to farms and fields in an effort to pollinate crops. It is widely known that over 70 of the 100 crop species which provide most of the...

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]]> https://sublimemagazine.com/plight-of-the-honeybee/feed/ 0 12184 The Wisdom of Bees https://sublimemagazine.com/the-wisdom-of-bees/ https://sublimemagazine.com/the-wisdom-of-bees/#respond Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:43:23 +0000 https://testserver.sublimemagazine.com/sublimewp/the-wisdom-of-bees/ The result is a fairly likeable anecdotal book split into 25 chapters, or ‘lessons’, with a sprinkling of fascinating information. (Did you know that bees have an inbuilt version of an intranet in their comb, through which they transmit signals of between 230 and 270 Hertz; or that they can visit up to 10,000 flowers...

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