Tag: bee

Apart from pollution, pesticides, and deforestation, cars are also now found to be killing bees in large numbers.

This could be a turning point in insect management.

Back in 2012, beekeepers were shocked to see deep blue honey coming from the hives. Turns out, a nearby factory ...

Temperature and geographical location of the hive also have an effect.

Doctors document a rare case of corneal bee sting.

North America has by far the greatest bee diversity.

Bee brains seem to use alpha waves similarly to primate brains.

The heavier the load, the higher their energy efficiency.

Late-blooming prairies can provide a much-needed respite to farm bees.

Our good work precedes us!

If you're allergic to bee venom, this vaccine is for you.

Out of the 544,879 colonies these beekeepers managed, 89,124 were lost over the winter of 2017-18.

Science to the rescue!

Researchers say that you should help queen bees if you see them exhausted on the ground, by providing a teaspoon ...

Wallace’s giant bee -- about four times larger than a honeybee -- hadn't been spotted for nearly four decades until ...

BEEEE cause we can, that's why.

I can’t BEElive this!

Glyphosate may not be harmless to animals after all.

Intelligent behavior emerging from a group of relatively unintelligent organisms.

It's a small gesture, but it can make a big difference for the tiny bees.

As bee populations dwindle, robots are made to take their place.

Perhaps it's time to consider a full-scale ban.

Is it really that bad?

It's time to face it: our pesticides are killing off bees -- and bumblebees.

Bees are more of the rural type, it seems.

Researchers have trained bumblebees to score goals using a mini-ball.

For the first time in history, a bee in continental US has been listed as endangered.

Bee populations are going down dramatically, and our insecticides are largely at blame.

Harvard roboticists made an insect-like flying robot that perches on ceilings to save energy, like bats, birds or butterflies.

Bee numbers have been dropping at alarming rates, and the growing consensus seem to be that only limiting pesticide use ...

When it comes to vaccines, the young bees don't really have a choice - they're naturally immunized against specific diseases ...

Wild bees provide environmental services worth $3,250 (€2,880) per hectare per year - accounting for billions, globally. Writing in Nature ...

As part of a recent TED Talk (presented at the bottom of this article) photographer Anand Varma captured the incredible ...

With bee numbers dropping dramatically in the last years, it's time to take some drastic measures, and a White House ...

Something is killing off the bees; it's likely us, and we'll all have to pay the price. In fact, in ...

Memories aren't infallible - even for those with photographic memory - so, more often than not, they'll seem fuzzy. And ...

A new study has shown that neurotoxic pesticides blamed for the huge drop in bee numbers are also equally affecting butterflies, ...

When I was a kid, I asked, like many others, how do bees know how to make their way back ...

By now, you really should be aware of the honeybee problems that are plaguing populations throughout the world - their ...

A group of paleontologists believe that the same event that killed off the dinosaurs some 66 million years ago also ...

In case you didn't know, bee popullations all around the world are dwindling. The disorder which is causing this massive ...

In case you don't know, global bee populations have been dropping dramatically in latest years - and this is not ...

We've reported in the past about the frightening, ever growing cases of honeybee population dye-offs of the past few years, ...

Known as "Cockerell's bumblebee", this particular species has managed to elude entomologists and basically anyone else with the trained eye ...

The world bee population is at its greatest trial in years, as thousands of bee populations die off each year. ...

A remarkable MIT research has found that by coating carbon nano-tubes with bee venom they can create incredibly faithful sensor ...

Photo by net_efekt In what is a laudable action, Germany has banned a family of pesticides that are blamed for ...