Honeybees do not like cold weather. When temperatures dip, they can become sluggish and unable to fly. But no matter the ...

Bees are able to detect when food contains an unfavorable balance of essential amino acids and reduce how much they eat, ...

Bees may be more nutritionally selective than scientists realized, adjusting how much they eat when pollen contains an ...

Bacteria have adapted to all terrestrial environments. Some have evolved to survive in the gut of animals, where they play an important role for their host; they provide energy by degrading ...

Plant species which are recommended as 'pollinator friendly' in Europe begin flowering up to a month too late for bees, resulting in low colony survival and low production of queens. This research has ...

Every year on May 20, the world celebrates World Bee Day, a global call to recognize the vital role bees and other pollinators play in keeping our ecosystems alive and our plates full. This year’s ...

You may be spotting bodies of dead bumblebees lying across pavements near you in the summer months. There are several reasons ...

Hollywood star Morgan Freeman has transformed his ranch into a bee sanctuary and created this safe habitat after learning ...

Multiple environmental pressures are harming bees whose pollination supports crops and flowering plants worldwide.