Material World (BBC R4) on July 29 carried an item on bees (the art bit is about 15 mins in) :
"Honey bees are in danger, and colonies are collapsing around the world. Norman Carreck at the University of Sussex is trying to mate bees from different colonies to improve disease resistance – some bees are more hygienic than others and may be able to protect colonies from pests.
Norman presented his work at this week’s Royal Entomological Society meeting in Swansea. Also there was local artist Owen Griffiths who was shortlisted but didn’t make the final of So You Want To Be A Scientist. But that hasn’t deterred him and his colleague Fern. Their idea of commissioning a piece of music for a choir, based on the sound of bees, and performing it to hives to measure any impact on yield or behaviour, received its world premiere on Tuesday.
There are more singing events at Swansea University on Friday August 6th at 6pm and Monday August 9th at 6pm if you want to go along."
Guy Morgan
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