When the temperatures outside dipped, the honeybees grabbed hold of each other’s legs to form a living quilt along the ...

With all of Tucson’s lovely desert blooms, you no doubt have noticed plenty of bees. If you want to have a garden with beautiful flowers (and who doesn’t?), you will also have bees and other ...

Cornell researchers recently observed a novel ‘outhouse’ structure in Arctic bumble bee nests that could mitigate the spread of fecal-borne disease within bee colonies. The outhouse is a small and ...

A research team has investigated the importance of limestone quarries for wild bee conservation. Diverse landscapes with good connectivity between quarries and calcareous grasslands proved to be ...

When ecologist Rachael Winfree first began studying bees 25 years ago, she happened upon a surprise: a species of plasterer bee in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, not seen in 50 years and suspected to ...

he global decline of wild bee populations is alarming. Landscapes characterised by intensive agriculture offer hardly any suitable habitats. Isolated local efforts are often not enough to counteract ...

Above: Bumble bees buzz pollinate crops like tomatoes when they collect pollen, which they store in a ball on their hind legs. It’s hard to deny the absolute benefits of the honey bee, but did you ...

What will the world look like when pollinators have disappeared, and how can science help us prevent them from disappearing? These questions were the focus of a recent event at the University of ...

Ellen Baker receives funding from NERC and is a member of the British Ecological Society. As I walk around the supermarket, I pick up vegetables for tomorrow’s dinner, eggs and bread for tonight and ...