Move over gym rats. Bumble bees are now the true masters of macros. In the first long-term, community-level field study of wild bumble bee nutrition, a team of ecologists led by Northwestern ...

Creating a pollinator garden also means thinking about long-term care. Many common lawn and garden chemicals are linked to ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Humans may not be the only species that struggles to eat the right amounts of the ideal foods. A new study led by researchers at Penn State suggests that what bumble bees choose ...

Honey bees are vital to the environment. The western honey bee (Apis mellifera) ranks as the most frequent single pollinator species for crops worldwide. Bees provide a crucial ecosystem service, as ...

Washington State University’s newest bee expert will be reaching out to beekeepers and other stakeholders to conduct an assessment of research needs. “I’ve had a lot of beekepers ask me, ‘What else ...

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Since 2018, honeybees have feasted on wildflowers across a remote Italian island called Giannutri every spring. But for the last four years, Lorenzo Pasquali had the unusual task of shutting the ...