Bees

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26th June 2023 | By Grace Elmes

Leaving lights switched on throughout the night

“Every morning I sweep up buckets of dead insects from outside my laboratory.” Colin Henshaw shares his morning routine, due to the neighborhood school leaving...

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23rd July 2022 | By Isabella Coombes

A buzz among the city’s summer bustle: a new home for 20,000 bees has been placed on top of one of Manchester’s newest hotels

Swarms of bees took over Manchester city centre last weekend and now over 20,000 of them are to take residence on the roof of the...

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23rd November 2018 | By Andrew Wong

Bee-themed paper straws one step closer to a carbon neutral Manchester

Bars and restaurants across Greater Manchester have taken part in a campaign to stop the use of single-use plastics. Bee-themed paper straws will be distributed...

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18th November 2018 | By nq_admin

‘Bees, Please’ campaign launched to raise awareness of reduction in Britain’s bee population

Bees are the world’s most common and important pollinator of crops and it has been estimated that a third of the food a person eats...