Bees News

bumblebees were drawn to synthetic flowers designed to generate the same kind of ultraviolet rings,

 The knowledge about the magnitude of harm that the bees were being subjected to due to these particular insecticides was still vague.

Spider bites were the second most prevalent cause of hospitalization in the 13-year period, accounting for 30 percent of all admissions, while snake bites were third at 15 percent.

New species of 'ant-like' desert bees have been discovered by a team of researchers.

The IUCN Red List of Endangered Species has already listed the rusty patched bumble bee as endangered.  

A new study revealed that air pollution hampers with bees' ability to forage.

Widespread use of pesticides for enhanced crop yields has led to the decline of pollinators such as honey bees which are needed for increase in yields and quality of 84 per cent of the crops grown for human consumption, experts said here on Saturday.

 The stress of short-term nutritional deprivation as larvae actually makes honeybees -- critical to the world's food supply -- more resilient to starvation as adults, a new study has found.

Researchers said that moving animals and plants around the world could have devastating consequences both for domestic animals and for wildlife.

A new study found that bees may select caffeinated nectar over an uncaffeinated, though otherwise equal-quality alternative.

 Researchers have discovered four new bee species in the genus Euhesma in Australia.