19/07/2016
Adam Walton talks to the team from Cardiff University researching whether bees have regional accents and hears about the Welsh alternative to antibacterial manuka honey.
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The honey bee plays an essential role in maintaining life as we know it, by pollinating plants. Unfortunately, bee numbers are declining and unless we take urgent action we could be facing a very different听environment.
So it's not surprising that听many scientists are deployed in ways to help stimulate honey bee colonies 鈥� all bee colonies for that matter.听At Cardiff University this week, the School of Pharmacy has launched a project to discover whether bees have different accents. And they're听urging Wales' beekeepers to help by sending in recordings and photos of their bees. The team at Cardiff has also been听investigating the origins of a Welsh听'superhoney', which might be used as an antibacterial agent on infections听now resistant to antibiotics.
And at Bangor University, a team has been working on some quite ingenious ways to track bees. The thinking is that the more we know about bees and what helps them to flourish, the better we can protect future generations.听听听
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