While We Worry About Honeybees, Other Pollinators Are Disappearing

One company wants to help farmers adapt to a world of rapidly declining bee populations.

A report blames the loss of habitats, pesticides and climate change for the decline in bees.

Pesticides Linked to Deaths of Millions of Bees in Brazil

Start thinking about numbers and they can become large very quickly. The diameter of the universe is about 8.8×1023 km and the largest number with a name—googolplex, 1010100—outranks it enormously. Although that colossal concept was dreamt up by brilliant mathematicians, we’re still pretty limited when it comes to assessing quantities at a glance. ‘Humans have a threshold limit for instantly processing one to four elements accurately,’ says Adrian Dyer from RMIT University, Australia; and it seems that we are not alone.

Curiously, scientists found the insects cared for pupae who don't actually need to be fed.

Dairy farmers say that regenerative farming has brought back the bees and increased profits.

A new study suggests that bees can store information in long-term memory while they sleep, just like humans do when we dream

In addition to devastating effects on bee populations and the pollination needed to feed humans and other species, widely-used pesticides chemically related to nicotine may be deadly to birds and linked to some species' declines, according to a new study.

New findings presented by the University of California, Riverside, demonstrate how male honeybees inject toxins during sex that cause temporary blindness in their mate. It is not a foreign concept that male insects have proteins in their seminal fluid that causes the death of other insect’s sperm. However, the function of blinding one’s mate is highly unusual.

The tiny bus-stop gardens also help prevent flooding and keep the city cool.

Agriculture has become 48 times more toxic to insects in last 25 years as neonics are used on over 140 different types of crops

Morgan Freeman, the actor, film director and philanthropist has added a new title to his name: Beekeeper. The 81-year-old celebrity decided to convert his 124-acre Mississippi ranch into a bee sanctuary. Freeman's foray into beekeeping began in 2014, where he discussed his new hobby with Jimmy Fallon during The Tonight Show.

The US Department of Agriculture has suspended data collection for its annual Honey Bee Colonies report, citing cost cuts -- a move that robs researchers and the honeybee industry of a critical tool for understanding honeybee population declines, and comes as the USDA is curtailing other research programs.

Most people might not be really that informed about how bees help humans and the environment. Bees are one of the insects that assist the pollination process. Pollination is how insects such as bees and butterflies transfer pollen grains from the male anther of a flower to the female stigma which leads to fertilization resulting to the production of a new seed.

The plump rusty patched bumblebee, Bombus affinis, once buzzed all across the eastern United States, the upper Midwest and parts of Canada. But today, the chunky critter is endangered, its population reduced by nearly 90 percent. In Minnesota, where the rusty patched bumblebee can still be found, officials have hatched a plan to help bolster the species’ population. As Jessica Leigh Hester reports for Atlas Obscura, the state wants to pay residents to turn their lawns into bumblebee havens.

"We wanted to test this widely stated but largely untested hypothesis."

Honeybees can learn to associate symbols with specific numerical values, and vice versa.

Morgan Freeman is one of those famous people that is adored by both the young and the old. He is an actor, filmmaker, as well as director and he, is known for a lot of different roles that he played during his long Hollywood career, so it is difficult to keep track...

Minnesota lawmakers have greenlighted a new program to pay homeowners in the state to transform their lawns into bee gardens in efforts to counter the declining bee population.