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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — More than a dozen wild bee species critical to pollinating everything from blueberries to apples in New England are on the decline, ...

Bees are considered the world's most important pollinator of food crops. In fact, it's estimated that one-third of the food we consume each day relies on pollination ...

Pollinators in peril: Could robotic bees save flowering plants from the burgeoning bee crisis?

A third of British wild bees and hoverflies are in decline, according to a new study. If current trends continue, some species will be lost from Britain altogether, the ...

WALDOBORO — The Waldoboro Community Garden Club welcomes Master Gardener Jean Vose to its meeting, Tuesday, April 16. The meeting begins with a ...

Brassica rapa plants pollinated by bumblebees evolve more attractive flowers. But this evolution is compromised if caterpillars attack the plant at the same time.

If beekeeping isn't your thing, but you'd still like to help bee populations, learn how to enhance your yard or farm to attract wild bees.

The first Modesto Pollinator Festival, with a costume parade, speakers and expert information on protecting native plants and their pollinators, is coming to the La ...

How important is pollination? Without it, we would not have about three-quarters of the world's food crops.

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Honey bees are in high demand for pollinating crops, and hives are often trucked thousands of miles a year to serve different crops in different regions and ...

Five simple actions to help pollinators such as planting more bee-friendly flowers and cutting grass less often were promoted to protect the vital.

PLYMOUTH, Ind. --- Keeping the bees and butterflies in Marshall County: That's the goal of one local group who's using a $2,5000 grant to fund a pollinator ...

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Weight of 1.75m signatures persuades German state to bypass referendum and order action to protect pollinators. AFP in Munich. Wed 3 Apr 2019 14.04 EDT ...

Scientists from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford examined 715392 biological records submitted by volunteer nature observers between 1980 ...

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire have found a dramatic decline of 14 wild bee species that are, among other things, important across the ...

Honeybees are under siege, straining the business of farming. Now growers are turning to other bee species to help their crops.

A new study shows how honey bees pollinate blueberry crops, despite lacking the skill for buzz pollination thought necessary to access blueberry pollen.

The successful demonstration of remote-controlled "drones-bees" by Netherlands' Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) has been making news since ...

A hyperfocus on the plight of hooneybees has left thousands of other species in the dark.

Bees prefer flowers that offer significant rewards, like high quality pollen. If we expect bees to continue spreading pollen on our farms, they need to get ...

Dutch scientists say they can create swarms of bee-like drones to take over if the insects die out.

Honeybees receive a lot of attention, but the first North American bee to be listed as an endangered species is a wild bumble bee. Wild bees are vital pollinators, ...

A tightening of restrictions on the insecticides known as neonicotinoids has brought hope that the decline in honey bees and wild pollinators can be reversed.

Pollination by commercially raised bees is important to a variety of crops but none more than California almonds. In turn, beekeepers depend on them.

Research shows that 400 female blue orchard bees are as effective at pollinating almonds as the more than 10000 bees in a honeybee hive. But they reproduce ...

Many people do not realize that native bees have been pollinating the continent's flowering plants long before honey bees were brought from Europe. As bees ...

Fruit and vegetable magnate Robert Costa says that two-thirds of Australia's food relies upon bee pollination. RMIT ABC Fact Check finds that to be overstated.

Here's how to make your garden a haven for hungry pollinators.

Mikko Tiusanen, MSc, in his doctoral dissertation, investigated the structure and functioning of plants and their pollinators in Arctic regions.

Could drone pollinators help secure our future food supply?

An analysis of state laws finds Minnesota among the most productive in actions to protect insect pollinators.

This story originally appeared on Reveal and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. It was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting ...

We all know that many plants need to be pollinated to make seed, but not everyone knows just what pollen is, and which creatures do the pollinating. Pollen is ...

Seventy percent of global food crops depend on pollinators, but urbanization, monoculture, disease, predators, and pesticide use have conflated to shrink bee ...

Inside a greenhouse at West Virginia University, a robot is rolling down aisles of blackberry plants learning to act like a bee. Computer vision algorithms are ...

In a world with too many humans and not enough pollinators, robots like the BrambleBee could help.

Sometimes the buzzing of bees means they're busy gathering pollen.

Soon the buzzing heard down the I-76 won't just come from cars, but from hives of pollinators too. The route connecting Denver to Nebraska is becoming a ...

It's about time for the annual mass migration of honeybees to California, and new research is helping lower the chances the pollinators and their offspring will die ...

If you're moving pollen from one plant to another, you might be a pollinator. Pollinators come in all shapes and sizes: butterflies, beetles, birds, bats and even ...

Honey bees deal with many stressors: chemicals, climate change and viruses. But this year, a tiny mite has wiped out colonies, causing worry over whether there ...

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the ...

Even on the quietest days, the world is full of sounds: birds chirping, wind rustling through trees, and insects humming about their business. The ears of both ...

Bees are crucial to the agricultural industry. Here are 12 interesting facts about bees, nature's first farmer.

Wild bees are indispensable pollinators, supporting both agricultural productivity and the diversity of flowering plants worldwide.

Stroll through an apple orchard in bloom, and you'll be surrounded with the buzz of busy bees. But unless the farm manager has rented hives of domesticated ...

Between April 2017 and April 2018, beekeepers in the U.S. lost an estimated 40 percent of their managed honey bees.

Declines in native bee populations are widely reported, but can existing data really analyze these trends? In the Jan. 17, 2019, online edition of PLOS One, Utah ...

A growing number of honey bees die each year due to pesticides, vanishing habitats, poor nutrition and climate change, with potentially disastrous ...

Scientists at the University of Helsinki have developed the first edible vaccine for honey bees.

Planting clumps of bright, successively blooming flowers is a popular method for attracting foraging pollinators like bees and butterflies. But savvy vegetable and ...

Biodiversity is sometimes quantified purely by the number of species within a system that allow it to function to produce ecosystem services. Grab et al. show that ...

Almond growing in California is a $7.6 billion industry that wouldn't be possible without the 30 billion bees (and hundreds of human beekeepers) who keep the ...

It's no secret that bee populations are in decline across the UK and Europe. There has also been a fantastic increase in public awareness over the past few ...

Many pollinator insect species like bees, butterflies, and hoverflies are on the decline, due in large part to habitat destruction driven by conversion of land to ...

Colorado's legal fields of low-THC cannabis can attract a lot of bees.

The long read: Beekeepers are sounding the alarm about the latest developments in genetically modified pollinators.

Anne Leonard awarded National Science Foundation grant to fund bumblebee research.

Want bigger, faster-growing blueberries? New research shows wild bees are an essential secret ingredient in larger and better blueberry yields—producing ...

Most conservation initiatives are aimed at the honeybee. But the decline of native bees, which are crucial to preventing the collapse of ecosystems, is receiving ...

Native bees and other wild insects tend to get overlooked — but these amazing Australian animals could be instrumental in helping us feed a growing world ...

A native bee wraps its hind legs around a flower and vibrates its wings to unlock the flower's hidden treasure –pollen. Its fuzzy body coated in yellow, the bee ...

Bees are under threat in Ireland, but a handful of experts are now marshalling an army of volunteers all over the island to protect these miniature wonders, writes ...

One thing that most sensible people can agree on — whether they're vegan, meat-eaters, paleo, keto or whatever food tribe they happen to belong to — is that ...

What can we do in our home gardens, especially small space gardens, to create a habitat for mason bees? Brian Minter finds out.

JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) — Bobby Coy and his son, Richard Coy, owners of Crooked Creek Bee Co., in Jonesboro, began noticing a decline in bee pollination ...

When Larri Cochran sees a bee in the Northampton Community Garden, she does not avoid it. Rather, she whips out her camera to snap photos and videos.

The bee marked in yellow is this hive's queen. There is usually only one queen in a hive, which the worker honeybees feed, follow, and protect.(Credit: Marisa ...

New research revealed that foreign honey bees often account for more than 90 percent of pollinators observed visiting flowers in San Diego, considered a global ...

This article was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent nonprofit news organization. While soybean farmers ...

A new study examining 100 years of bumble bee records reveals that almost half of Vermont's species, which are vital pollinators, have either vanished or are in ...

Bee Campus USA-certified schools bring bees to higher education.

Honeybee populations are declining at a terrifying rate. BrambleBee, a new pollination robot developed by researchers at West Virginia University, may one day ...

University of Vermont bee researchers are buzzing after an anonymous $500,000 gift to support threatened pollinators. The gift creates the Apis Fund, which will ...

MEDINA, N.D. — All was quiet in the pasture until Chad Price and Brandon Weatherly started moving bee boxes. Then the persistent buzz in the air was ...

Habitat loss and pesticide use have made planting for pollinators more important than ever, and adding native, diverse plants can help create a haven for ...

Jill Jacobs and her husband Brannen Basham hold up one of their handmade bee houses amid flowering native plants at their home in Waynesville. Holly Kays ...

“I'm surprised it took you so long to ask,” Brandon Hopkins says with a laugh. The 35-year-old entomologist is preparing samples to be sent to the USDA ...

It's sometimes reported that one in every three bites of food depends on bees. As is often the case when an easy-to-grasp notion spreads, there's a dose of truth ...

In a new series of studies, scientists acknowledge that we don't know nearly enough about the thousands of wild bee species agricultural producers depend on.

Bees are worth about $14.2 billion to the Australian economy, most of it in pollination services. They pollinate about a third of the food we eat such as almonds, ...

YAKIMA COUNTY, Wash. - Can you picture hundreds of millions of of bees all in one place? Yakima beekeeper Randon Hodges is one of thousands of ...

GRAND FORK, N.D. — North Dakota is the nation's leader in honey production. The University of North Dakota in Grand Forks is a leader in drones and drone ...

Ecosystems that contain only a few bee species underperform in terms of plant production whereas those with many different species thrive, according to ...

One-third of food produced in the world depends on pollination, and bees hold the most important role among all pollinators.

The United States is home to more than 4,000 species of native bees that display an amazing array of sizes and ecological roles, and yet non-native European ...

Bees are an essential part of food production and a healthy ecosystem, so following the rise and fall their populations is essential.

Planting more hedgerows and trees could hold the key to helping UK bees thrive once again, a new study argues. And researchers suggest artificial intelligence ...

Butterflies hatched early with the heat, but their flowers hadn't opened yet. Bees are under pressure, too. 'You can see the climate change.'

If you're a vegan and object to eating honey, should you avoid eating avocados because orchards are pollinated through migratory beekeeping that's cruel to ...

Urgent planting of wildflowers will attract pollinators and boost farmers' food crops, expert to tell UN.

A large percentage of the world's food production relies on bee pollination - but what do we do when the bees can't be relied on? US startup Dropcopter has just ...

Bees may be small, but don't underestimate their importance. Of the 100 crop species which provide approximately 90% of food worldwide, 71 are dependent on ...

TWIN FALLS — It's a tough time to be a beekeeper.

MEDINA, N.D. — All was quiet in the pasture until Chad Price and Brandon Weatherly started moving bee boxes. Then the persistent buzzzzz in the air was ...

As the first annual World Bee Day looms, insect and garden lovers are abuzz with excitement.

Can artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning help save the world's bees? That's the hope of scientists who are scrambling to reverse the dramatic ...

Every winter, around 1.5 million honeybee colonies from all over the U.S. are shipped to California to pollinate almond trees. That's almost 60 percent of the ...