North Bay almond growers who depend on honeybees for pollination are facing a significant decline in populations, down nearly ...
Researchers at Cornell University have been tapped to test whether pesticides might have played a role in a sharp loss in ...
Researchers from the University of Florence and University of Pisa conducted an experiment demonstrating that managed ...
Iridescent sweat bees, hairy-faced mining bees, tiny Perdita minima the size of a gnat. Thanks to swarms of apiary ...
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 ...
An army of experts and citizen scientists devoted to documenting and protecting the country’s native bees is telling us a lot ...
The country is home to four native honey bee species, all of which the study says are at risk of population decline due to global factors like climate change and parasites, as well as more local ...
Ironically, the same activists also discourage the adoption of modern biotechnology (Genetic Modification Organisms ...
A majority of beekeepers around the country have lost at least half of their honey bees in a mysterious disappearance over ...
Declining bee populations are concerning farmers and researchers alike, and now a program to help bees survive the winter is ...