Knowing your winged and stinging insects is pretty important for homeowners, both so they can better understand the biodiversity on their property and so that they know which insects pose danger to ...

Bees need to gather different flower pollens in fall than they do in spring, according to a study of honeybees by U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service scientists. The ...

Dikes are indispensable for bees, especially if they are home to many different plant and flower species. A large census conducted on 157 dikes along rivers in the Netherlands revealed that more and ...

New research paints a worrying picture for the different species of bees that provide multi-million-euro pollination services in Ireland each yea. The work raises concerns about the potential ...

A blue carpenter bee specimen from KU's world-leading collection of bees is shown. The University of Kansas has won a federal grant to help its bee collection — the largest in the world — spread far ...

In the 1970s, laboratory honey bees generally lived for over a month. But now, according to new research published in Scientific Reports, lab-kept bees only live about two weeks. The halving of the ...

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