Viruses spread from honey bees to wild bees through shared flowers, threatening pollination and plant communities.
There are roughly 100 million managed western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in hives worldwide, with about half in Europe, Africa and western Asia, where the species is native, and the rest in ...
Resource overlap between wild bees and honeybees on Giannutri Island. Credit: Current Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.02.048 Researchers from the University of Florence and University of Pisa ...
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 ...
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Many farmers rent bee hives to pollinate crops, but they could tap into the free labor of wild bees by adopting an as-needed approach to pesticides, a new proof-of-concept study ...
How does urban honeybee-keeping impact wild bee populations? This is what a recent study published in Peerj hopes to address as a team of researchers examined the adverse effects of urban ...
Sebastian Irazuzta received funding from McMaster University, The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, and NSERC. Noah Stegman received funding from McMaster University and NSERC. Susan A. Dudley receives ...
FOREST GROVE, Ore. - Two homeowners realized they needed a bee expert instead of an arborist when they found a bee colony in the tree they planned to cut down on their Forest Grove property. In comes ...
WOODLAND, Calif. — For a few frenzied weeks, beekeepers from around the country truck billions of honeybees to California to rent them to almond growers, who need the insects to pollinate the state’s ...
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