Researchers from the University of Florence and University of Pisa conducted an experiment demonstrating that managed ...

Two beginner beekeeping courses are taking place this spring at Mitchell State Park in Cadillac. Join the Saturday classes, 9 ...

The giant honeybees compose an ancient subgenus (Megapis) with several forms in Asia. The lowland form, Apis dorsataFabricius, 1793, is widespread from Pakistan to eastern Indonesia, with geographic ...

Spring is approaching in the northern hemisphere, and with it come the perennial considerations about which kinds of flowers ...

Pesticides, widely used to protect crops from pests, often unintentionally harm pollinators like bumble bees. A new study, ...

A new method of examining gene expression patterns called landscape transcriptomics may help pinpoint what causes bumble bees stress and could eventually give insight into why bee populations are ...

Learn about basic bee biology, beekeeping equipment, choosing your apiary location, installing your bees, caring for bee health, seasonal tasks and more.

And that was my path too,” said Michael Matise, associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology at ...

Would bees that communicated similarly yield more ... The findings were recently published in Current Biology. "Although the waggle dance itself is fascinating, my lab has additionally been ...

So, whether a bee has a short or longer proboscis ... a professor in the Department of Biology, contributed to this study.