Several major agricultural groups have joined the Pollinator Partnership to ask USDA to convene a Honey Bee Nutrition and Forage Summit in October. The summit would coincide with the meeting of the ...

Forager bees, like this one feeding on lavender nectar, "turn on" genes that could help protect the hive and honey against microbes and toxins. When honeybees shift from nurse bees to foragers, or ...

A honeybee that’s been promoted to forager has upgrades in her nerve cells, too. Vibration-sensing nerve cells, or neurons, are more specialized in bees tasked with finding food compared with younger, ...

A honey bee forages on a lemonade berry sumac shrub. (Getty Images) The extreme weather that has battered much of the U.S. in 2022 doesn’t just affect humans. Heat waves, wildfires, droughts and ...

Humans learn language from their elders. And the same is true of honey bees. Biologists who study bees have known that forager bees can find food in the wild and tell others in the hive where it is.

Save the bees and maybe a few of our apples. For those of you who like gardening and bees, the Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board is giving away packets containing seeds of non-invasive, ...

We conducted experiments designed to examine the distribution of foraging honey bees (Apis mellifera) in suburban environments with rich floras and to compare spatial patterns of foraging sites used ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Honey bees, like people, can tell time. “The first record of us ...

TUCSON, ARIZONA, March 20, 2019--Honey bee colonies foraging on land with a strong cover of clover species and alfalfa do more than three times as well than if they are put next to crop fields of ...

The use of neonicotinoids—a common class of pesticides—has increasingly been linked to negative effects on bees by a number of scientific studies in recent times. Now, a team of researchers from ...