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The Bite of the Bumblebee
SCIENCE AND SOCIETY explains why hungry bumblebees cause plants to flower when spring comes early
A Bumblebee searches for pollen amongst flowers in Kent
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
IN spring, buff-tailed bumblebee queens (Bombus terrestris) emerge from their winter nests looking for ideal locations to start colonies.
Each colony is founded with an initial batch of eggs that were fertilised the previous year. Two weeks later these eggs become the first batch of worker bees, who will forage for food and tend to the eggs that the queen continues to lay.
The initial stages of the colony, when the number of worker bees is low, can be a very precarious time. The success of the colony depends on how well the queen has chosen their location.
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