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The Xerces Society is looking for volunteers for this year’s Bumble Bee Atlas field season to track declining populations of bumble bees.
They’re tiny creatures with a big purpose, facing exponential threats. We are talking about the honey bee. At the Catherine ...
Spring is here, and that means it’s bee season! Bees are fascinating creatures, with approximately 4,000 species located in ...
The research, involving bumble bee pollen preference in a diverse, agricultural region of Northern California, is the work of Williams and former lab member Jeremy Hemberger, then a USDA NIFA ...
You may be most familiar with the bumble bee, but there are actually over 20,000 ... Bees only eat nectar and pollen from flowering plants. 12. Eighty percent of all flowering plants — including ...
Carpenter bees get their name from their habit of drilling holes in dead wood. No big deal when they're digging away at a ...
The pesticide reduced successful mating in bumble bees and altered the chemical signaling of both males and gynes, female ...
Friends of Secrest Aboretum's plant sale will take place 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. on May 10 at Secrest Arboretum featuring more than ...
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 ...
An alarming report on “CBS Saturday Morning” noted millions of bees have died this year, more than in any previous year. Local hives have seen deaths, too. Northeast Kentucky Beekeepers’ Ginger ...
Ireland, as a member state of the EU, must improve pollinator diversity and reverse the decline of pollinator populations by ...