Most pollinators work under our radar and are easily overlooked when a garden receives the admiring human gaze. A closer look into the flower of a plant in bloom may reveal a small invertebrate ...

Some bees are skipping the pollination process altogether, piercing flowers to steal nectar without spreading pollen. This ...

The (MCBA) recently completed its 2025 Beginners Beekeeping School, an introduction to the skill and craft of keeping honey ...

The film explores the life and social structure of honeybees, highlighting their importance as pollinators and their complex ...

While honey producers and beekeepers have ways to treat varroa-infested hives, the bees themselves also have a few tricks up their sleeve.

and the development of tiny robotic pollinator "bees" could be a key to success. Photo courtesy of Oasis Biotech/U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

In all, more than 90 species of U.S. specialty crops require pollination by bees and other insect pollinators. In the wild, the numbers of such pollinators are in serious decline due to invasive ...

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is a vital cash-crop for four to six million small-holder farmers across the tropics, and supports a global chocolate industry valued at over USD 100 billion annually ...

“Wild bees, which provide the majority of pollination services worldwide, undergo an annual life cycle that includes a winter diapause, that can span over 75% of their life cycle and during which ...

Kaylee Hrisoulas and her partner, who have opposite schedules, live in a midtown apartment without a bedroom. The arrangement is difficult at times. “We do sacrifice sharing a small space as a ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Several hundred honey bees in rural Pennsylvania and New York are sporting tiny high-tech accessories—miniature QR codes glued to their backs. These tags aren’t just the latest ...