Get a honeybee near a rose or a lavender and the insect will extend its strawlike tongue to search for nectar, pollinating the flower in the process. That’s at least how it works in clean environments ...

An international research team led by the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna has made an extraordinary discovery: fossilized lime blossoms and fossilized bumble ...

As the world's native bee populations are declining, crop production requiring pollinators increasingly relies on commercial pollination services. In the U.S., the beekeeping industry is in great ...

DEANNA. THANK YOU. AND TONIGHT, A LOOK AT THE BUSINESS OF HONEYBEES. THEY PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE POLLINATING OUR FOOD AND FLOWERS. AS WEATHERWATCH 12 METEOROLOGIST GINO RECCHIA EXPLAINS. SMOKE DOESN’T ...

Bumble bees—vital and fuzzy pollinators—face unique threats amidst global insect declines. If the insect world has a fuzzy, charismatic cutie, it’s surely the humble bumble bee. While insect ...

Bumblebees are considered tireless pollinators in tomato cultivation–but behind the scenes, a darker picture emerges: mass breeding, the use of medication, and painful killing are reportedly common ...

Bees are dying—and at an alarming rate. Between 2023 and 2024, U.S. beekeepers lost an estimated 55.1 percent of their colonies—the worst loss in more than a decade and nearly 15 percent higher than ...

Tabitha Graves, a research ecologist at the USGS's Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center, looks for bumble bees in a meadow along the North Fork Road in Glacier National Park as part of a ...

Meghalaya’s rich bee diversity, traditional beekeeping, planned Bee Museum stress efforts to promote honey production, ...