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

Yuba City, Calif. As rain clouds blanketed the sky in February, almond farmers in California's Central Valley walked their orchards, rubbing blossoms between ...

Online tool helps growers assess how much pollination they get from wild bees.

Morgan Freeman has converted his 124-acre ranch in Mississippi into a sanctuary for bees, in a bid to help the counter the insects' decreasing population, ...

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 ...

We all need to keep working together to create the next million-certified pollinator gardens.

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

Donation creates fund to protect and study vital pollinators. BeeComp_Apis_800x430_WEB.jpg. Images of a honeybee and two student researchers walking ...

How quickly the seasons seem to change with the arrival of Spring right around the corner. These past few months have greeting us with a great deal of snow ...

The return of rain is highlighting three concerns about the potential impacts on farmer's bee populations during the key pollination season as area orchards are ...

In this edition of Ask a Redbird Scholar, Illinois State University Professor Benjamin Sadd answers the question: Why are we running out of bees?

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — It's almond blossom time, and that means bees are getting busy. It's also when thieves strike, stealing hives right out of the orchards.

According to the American Beekeeping Federation, about one third of the food we eat relies on honey bee pollination. “A lot of our food would disappear or at ...

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

With local discussions *fresh* in mind on the merits of building a pair of solar power generating farms in southern Highland County, a company in Pennsylvani.

In its efforts to educate the students of East Carolina University about environmental issues, the Sustainability Film and Discussion Series is bringing a ...

Join an expert orchid-spotter in search of the diminutive pink calypso orchid and other early spring treasures of Trione-Annadel State Park next weekend.

Winter rains have created issues for some local beekeepers. Yolo County Deputy Agricultural Commissioner Jack Dewit says that at this point, it doesn't seem ...

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

Rep. Blumenauer goes to battle for the bees , Local News, Portland local News, Breaking News alerts for Portland city.

Bees love canola and canola loves bees. That's why canola farmers and beekeepers have a vested interest in cooperating and protecting bees as much as ...

For many years, I was told that bees only liked white and yellow flowers. That they would go to other colored flowers only when the first two were.

Did you know that bees are disappearing around the world? And that without bees, one third of all food we eat would simply vanish? But what would happen to ...

Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon) announced plans to reintroduce the Save America's Pollinators Act this morning. This will be the fourth time he's ...

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

Bees love hemp. At least 23 varieties feed on hemp pollen. A new study has found that male hemp flowers — the cannabis plant used for fiber and pollen ...

Heron Mark Tattoo & Gallery, located at 290 Haywood Road in Asheville, will host an interactive art installation by the Good of the Hive founder Matthew Willey ...

LIMERICK City and County Council has delayed the start of its annual grass-cutting programme in certain areas in order to help to give bees and other pollinator ...

TheTribune: In a significant achievement, the apiculture research centre of the Dr YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry (UHF), Nauni, has been ...

Honey Bee Zen Apiaries Ltd., can assure orchardists that we will be able to pollinate large portion orchards.

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

Looking at a picture of Wallace's giant bee, you wouldn't pick this insect as elusive. Four times as big as a honeybee, and a stark black colour, it looks like the ...

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

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

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

Beekeeper brothers will open their second Stubbees honey products store.

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

Nature is in freefall and the planet's support systems are so stretched that we face widespread species extinctions and mass human migration unless urgent ...

What are pollinators, and why do we need them? Read on to find out why pollinators are so important!

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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

Farmers are turning to other types of bees — like the blue orchard bee, the bumblebee and alfalfa leafcutter — that have proved to be effective pollinators of ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Could drone pollinators help secure our future food supply?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

This story was originally published by Reveal and produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, an independent nonprofit news ...

Groton fifth-graders have been visiting both Cutler Arts & Humanities Magnet Middle School and West Side Magnet Middle School as they prepare to make a.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Bees need flowers to live, and we need bees to pollinate our crops. Understanding bee vision can help us better support our buzzy friends and the critical ...

Specialty crop growers use fungicides to protect against many serious plant pathogens, but they also must take into consideration the potential harm fungicides ...

Regulators worldwide currently use honeybees as the sole model species failing to account for potential threats posed by agrochemicals to the full diversity of ...

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

Honeybees are responsible for only a third of crop pollination in Britain.

The first-ever vaccine for insects now exists, thanks to scientists at the University of Helsinki in Finland hoping to save one of the most crucial pollinators in the ...

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 ...

Pollination drones are being developed by researchers worldwide, copying biological designs to help farmers as bee populations decline.

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 ...

To make a teaspoon of honey is the life's work of 12 bees and that's how most of us think of them, bees - makers of honey. But the honey industry is worth around ...

Apple orchards surrounded by agricultural lands are visited by a less diverse collection of bee species than orchards surrounded by natural habitats, according ...

The severity of the enormous reduction in bee numbers over the past decade is at the heart of a new book by conservation biologist Thor Hanson, whose ...

Almonds, blueberries, apples, melons – all of these fruits, and many more, rely on insect pollination. Some crops rely more on pollinators than others.

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.

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 ...

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

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

A new study suggests moths have an important but overlooked ecological role -- dispensing pollen over large distances under the cover of darkness.

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