Fear. One hundred bee stings can kill anyone. I was seeing over 20,000 in front of me. Beekeeper Ray Sciberras had just removed a hive’s crown board revealing the brood. My heart skipped a beat.

True indicators of the state of biodiversity, everywhere in the world, bees are victims of neonicotinoids and other deadly agricultural practices. On the island of Malta, the BeeAware program is ...

Donate to the Zaar crowdfunding campaign today to help make the Maltese Honey Bee Malta’s national insect. A new crowdfunding campaign on Zaar hopes to kick-start an initiative for the Maltese honey ...

The work of BeeSavers Malta started in the spring of 2014 when a group of motivated students keen to be of service to Nature, started by voluntarily rescuing bee swarms under the custodianship of an ...

World-renowned tenor Joseph Calleja has called for the Maltese honey bee to be provided the highest level of protection in a new educational video on the endemic species. “The Maltese honey bee should ...

Beekeepers are set to protest over a recent importation of bees to Gozo that they believe could lead to the destruction of apiculture here. Earlier this month, renowned Italian apiculturist Ermanno De ...

The recent importation of 450 boxes of bees by a Sicilian apiculturist who set up base in Gozo has increased fears that the Maltese bee could soon face extinction. Beekeepers who spoke to The Sunday ...

Visitors to Malta can ponder on a buzzy new installation created by the French artist Pierre Huyghe whose Exomind (Deep Water) piece is the latest work unveiled on the Mediterranean island as part of ...