When a bee gets sick, it can’t necessarily social distance. “I like to think of it as a system, as a factory of sorts, with 30,000-40,000 bees crowded…just on top of each other, feeding each other and ...
Bumble bee survival depends on nest location and extreme heat. Underground nests protect colonies, while aboveground nests ...
Dean Haskin, owner of Mickle Hollow LLC works around the clock with honey bees. “I would say right now is the busiest,” said Haskin. Haskin’s bee farm currently has about 35 bee colonies — which are a ...
Honey bee colonies worldwide suffered massive losses last year, but University of Vermont researchers and international partners developed a new testing method that may lead to more disease-resistant ...
Bumblebee queens don t work nonstop. UC Riverside scientists discovered that queens take strategic reproductive breaks early in colony formation likely to conserve energy and increase the chance of ...
As flowers bloom across the Las Vegas Valley, a husband-wife team behind 'Vegas Bees' spends their weekends safely relocating unwanted hives. While these pollinators play a crucial role in our ...
Hundreds of flatbed loads of honey bees are trucked into Washington every spring, enabling the production of apples, cherries, pears and berries in the state. The pollinators are estimated to add at ...
A new study led by the University of Oxford in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, University of Greenwich, and the Technical University of Denmark could provide a cost-effective and ...
New research finds that higher temperatures can actually benefit some bumble bee species—particularly those that make subterranean nests. However, periods of extreme heat appear to offset those ...
Somewhere in the scrubby hills east of San Diego, feral honeybee colonies are doing something that commercial beekeepers ...
Washington State University researchers have found that a man-made pollen substitute, shaped into bars that beekeepers liken to granola, can strengthen honey bee colonies during the most nutritionally ...
The ability to detect viruses and other harmful pathogens is highly advantageous for animals, as it can guide their behavior ...