Dogs are often called man's best friend. But bees are integral to global food security as well. Bees play a vital role in ecosystems as pollinators of major crops, but their numbers have been falling rapidly due to habitat loss, pollution and pesticides.

World Bee Day: How are bees integral to global food security?

Dutch scientists have trained bees to detect the Wuhan Virus. Swiss scientists have identified a Biomarker that could predict the severity of virus. Doctors in Delhi are reporting a rise in Black Fungus. WION’s Palki Sharma elaborates on the 3 big developments.

Gravitas: These bees can detect COVID-19

Why is a muralist from New York painting bees around the globe?

We have an alarming problem! Not the ongoing coronavirus pandemic or the political upheavals across the globe, but the increasingly dying populations of bees. Due to the disappearing numbers of bees, crop yields for apples, cherries, and blueberries across the US has crumbled.

Bee populations are declining drastically: Find out how this phenomenon can wreak havoc globally

Flying robots equipped with soap bubbles could one day help in solving the problem of starvation, a study said. According to a study published in iScience on Wednesday, a Japanese researcher showed how soap bubbles can be used to pollinate fruit-bearing plants, which are seen as crucial in keeping the world fed in the coming decades in the face of vanishing bee populations.

Drones equipped with soap bubbles could be an answer to starvation

In India, Beekeepers in J&K faces challenge amid COVID-19 lockdown. Beekeepers are unable to deliver products to domestic as well as international markets.

India: Beekeepers in J&K faces challenge amid COVID-19 lockdown

Mexico's at-risk bees have found a new oasis in the southern state of Oaxaca. Threatened by pesticides, intensive agriculture and the effects of climate change, a sanctuary of sunflowers set up by local farmers could be a literal lifesaver for the black and gold insects.

Sunflower sanctuary, hope for bees in southern Mexico

French authorities on Wednesday banned two US pesticides which ecologists deem harmful to bees. A court in Nice, ruling in a case brought by two ecological associations, banned the products from US group Dow AgroSciences, on the grounds that their containing sulfoxaflor was harmful to bees' nervous systems.

France bans two US pesticides, citing risk to bees

An alternative form of therapy where people lie on beds over beehives is creating a buzz in Lithuania. "Bee-therapy" claims to soothe pain and treat ailments with the energy created by bees flapping their wings. Users of the unusual treatment believe the air around a beehive can lower blood pressure and ease breathing difficulties. Zidrunas Japertas who runs a bee-therapy centre in Kaunetiskes Village, in northern Lithuania, says he became a convert to the treatment seven years ago after using it to ease his own back pain. Despite his friends initially being sceptical of his therapy centre, Japertas says some 500 clients visit between May and September each year.

'Bee-therapy' creates a buzz in Lithuania

Afghan schoolgirl Frozan, has 12 beehives and last year collected 110kg of honey, which earned her 100,000 Afghanis ($1,450) in a country where GDP per capita is only about $600

19-year-old Afghan schoolgirl earns more than country's average per capita income

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