Warzones, microplastics and light pollution pose serious new risks to bees and other pollinators over the next decade, according to a landmark report on World Bee Day (20 May 2025).
On the eighth annual "World Bee Day," the bees did not seem bothered.
Curtin University research has revealed that high densities of European honey bees could be harming Australian native bees' fitness by reducing their reproductive success and altering key traits linked to survival.
So different, yet so alike. Through pollination, bees play an important role in the ecosystem, affecting the life cycle of plants, biodiversity and agricultural production. Their presence goes hand in hand with human activity.
A trio of researchers from institutions in Africa have explored whether honeyguides in Mozambique sometimes lead human hunters to dangerous animals as punishment for not giving them a proper reward on previous hunts. In their ...
At a laboratory in Austria's mountainous Tyrol province, scientists are DNA testing about 100 honey samples a month to learn about their composition—and in some cases to determine whether they have been adulterated.
A study published in the journal PLOS One reveals that combining bird observation data with land cover information provides more accurate predictions of numbers of wild bee species—a metric called richness—than using either ...
Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Collective Behavior at the University of Konstanz have discovered that honey bees from the same colony have different preferences in terms of defensive behavior. While some are still ...
Of the more than 20,000 bee species in the world, 70% nest in the ground. And like many of their counterparts that nest above ground, these bees are facing rapid population declines.
Scientists have unveiled a new food source designed to sustain honey bee colonies indefinitely without natural pollen.
