A Saudi Arabian man has placed queen bees all over his face and body to attract bees to cloak him, in an attempt to set a new record for the heaviest mantle of the stinging insect. However, Zuhair ...

A quarter of known bee species in the wild haven't appeared in public records since the 1990s, a concerning new study reveals. Argentinian researchers used a publicly available database on specimen ...

China has taken another step towards global dominance by covering a man in 326,000 bees. Gao Bingguo, a 54-year-old beekeeper from Shandong Province, has been raising bees for more than 34 years, so ...

An Irish beekeeper has failed to take the world record for attracting the most bees onto his body after managing a 200,000-strong 'bee beard'. Wearing little more than underpants and goggles, Philip ...

There has been an overwhelming drop in the number of wild bee species that are reported in public records over the past 30 years, according to a new study. Researchers looked at bee records in the ...

SINGAPORE – While working at the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve’s visitor centre in 2021, Ms Girinandhini Govindharaju found a dead black bee lying on a dusty tripod. The species looked unfamiliar to Ms ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bumblebees are buzzing round my dark purple oregano. I would not have invited them so close to a table and ...

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Erysipelas, bougainvillea, aiguillette - just some of the words finalists faced in dramatic showdown. A record number of eight children have been crowned co-champions in the US of the Scripps National ...