Scientists using highly sensitive vibration detectors have decoded honeybee queens' "tooting and quacking" duets in the hive.

Worker bees make new queens by sealing eggs inside special cells with wax and feeding them royal jelly. When ready to emerge the queens quack -but if two are free at the same time, they will fight to the death. So when one hatches, its quacks turn to toots, telling the workers to keep the queens , still quacking , captive. The queens responding to each other can be plainly heard.

It has been assumed that the queens were talking to other queens -possibly sizing one another up vocally to see who is strongest but there is another explanation.
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Published by Sarah Yeoman at 11:53am 22nd June 2020.  read more »

NEW ONLINE GROCERY DELIVERY SERVICES LAUNCHED

May saw the launch of two new online grocery delivery services – Veggies & More and Cornish Collective.  read more »

CORNWALL COMMUNITY KITCHEN

Fee’s Food and chef Tim Spedding have set up Cornwall Community Kitchen. Together they are donating meals to local food banks, working with small charities which are looking after those most in need, and delivering nutritious and delicious meals to doorsteps.

As well as helping those most at risk of food poverty, Cornwall Community Kitchen is also supporting small-scale farmers, growers and fishermen.  read more »

Published by Sarah Yeoman at 11:31am 18th June 2020.

It has been revealed where in Cornwall has seen the highest number of coronavirus-related deaths.

New Office for National Statistics data shows the number of deaths involving Covid-19 split by small areas within local authorities.  read more »

Double thunderstorm warning goes out for Cornwall