Given our general reliance on something called “food” you’d think the issue of pollination — and its general decline — might be higher up the world’s agenda. Over 80% of crops require insect ...

Crops and flowers rely on them for survival, but wild bees are declining – and crucial nutrients will go missing from our diets as a result ...

Solitary bees have a shorter lifespan compared to honeybees, usually lasting the spring or summer season. These bees have limited time to perform a lot of pollination work and they can use all the ...

Get a honeybee near a rose or a lavender and the insect will extend its strawlike tongue to search for nectar, pollinating the flower in the process. That’s at least how it works in clean environments ...

When you think of a honey bee, you likely first associate it with, well, honey — but if you’ve ever eaten an apple or had a cup of coffee, you’ve benefited from a honey bee, too. Over one-third of the ...

Writer and bee researcher Jennie Durant is intimately familiar with the trials and tribulations of commercial beekeepers. Her ...

Nocturnal pollination represents a vital yet under‐appreciated component of global ecosystem function, involving a specialised subset of bee species that forage under low‐light conditions. These bees ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heiko119 / Getty Images Many plants need to be pollinated to produce fruits or seeds to make more plants. But if pollinators are ...

Researchers have found that honeybees are effective blueberry pollinators. Dr Keanu Martin Next time you see a bee hovering around a fruit tree, you’re probably witnessing pollination in action.

A new report warns of a massive pollination shortfall in Australia this year as varroa mite wipes out hives and forces ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - Experts say an unusually early North American bee swarm season, which began 17 days earlier than last year following record heatwaves in 2026, could reshape ...