Bees occupy a central role in pollination, and their success in locating and utilising floral resources depends critically on their visual systems. Recent advances in imaging and quantitative analyses ...

The accusations you may have heard about nonnative honey bees aren’t backed by evidence. Entomologists explain that there are ...

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 ...

We study bees and other vital pollinators, and we can tell you that there are good reasons to love all the bees. In fact, ...

Whether you have a small garden in the backyard or hundreds of acres of farmland, there is one creature that keeps them ...

The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of top leaders and experts who pay dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership, and more. BY Darko Mandich Year ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A catastrophic loss of bee colonies over the winter has been blamed on a mite that injects a virus into the bees and spreads the ...

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 ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. There are more than 20,000 known bee species on planet Earth, including the famous western honeybee, Apis mellifera, the ...

When you think of a honey bee, you likely first associate it with, well, honey — but if you’ve ever eaten an apple or had a cup of coffee, you’ve benefited from a honey bee, too. Over one-third of the ...