bees

Over 30 years, one-third of the wild bees and hoverfly species surveyed sustained losses, likely due to pesticides, habitat loss, and climate change.

Four decades after it was thought to have disappeared in the wild, scientists have found a single female Wallace’s giant bee in Indonesia.

Researchers record neurological changes in a region called the mushroom body in the brains of bees completing a maze in a virtual environment.

Genetic material left behind on flowers can reveal which insects have visited.

Thought to be a nectar con artist, the candy spider-orchid actually does feed its pollinators, a select group of bees.

Bumblebee colonies grow poorly in landscapes dominated by maize, researchers find.

A high-tech approach to monitoring bee activity inside the nest reveals how the neonicotinoid imidacloprid impairs colony growth.

The insects fell silent as the moon cast a shadow over parts of North America last summer, researchers report.

A bee researcher finds that his subjects are protected from viral infections when they dine on fungus.

Revered as a humanitarian and scientist, Kerr was also blamed for the introduction of aggressive Africanized bees to the Americas.

A study of chemical tags on histone proteins hints at how the same genome can yield very different animals.

Sulfoxaflor, an alternative insect-killer to older chemicals that decimate pollinators, turns out to kneecap colonies.

Urban colonies had more offspring, survived longer, and hosted fewer parasites.

The insects correctly ordered an absence of black dots as “less than” a group of black dots.

The pesticides, which studies show are harmful to bees, will be prohibited in open fields by the end of 2018.

Researchers pinpoint a protein that can metabolize at least one of the insecticides, highlighting a route to identifying compounds that are friendlier to the critical pollinators.

Japanese honeybees (Apis cerana japonica) respond to an attack by a Vespa mandarinia wasp.

Scientists identify floral temperature patterns as a sensory cue that may help bees identify flower species. 

Entomologists have rediscovered a species of moth that was considered lost for 130 years. 

Female South African bees evolved lengthy limbs to better amass oil from the snapdragon flowers they pollinate.