Tag: Bees

Feed a Bee, the national pollinator forage initiative by Bayer, has reached its goal of awarding grants supporting diverse forage for pollinators in all 50 states. The 50th recipient awarded...

States are passing more legislation relating to pollinator conservation than the federal government, researchers found, but they say more laws are needed. In a study published in Environmental Science and Policy,...

If you’re looking for bees, look no further than the Beehive State. Utah has more bee species than most states in the nation, researchers found. One out of every four...

When Rick Johnstone went about improving bee habitat in a utility easement at Maryland’s Patuxent Wildlife Refuge, he could see the difference taking place on the ground within a year....

Beneficial flying insects such as native bees, moths, butterflies and others seem to be less abundant than usual, while pests such as mosquitoes, disease carrying ticks, cockroaches and others are...

Ever since the demise of bee colonies worldwide came to conservationists’ attention over a decade ago, the effort to better understand diseases afflicting bees has been gathering momentum. More recently,...

The following is adapted from an article previously published by Bayer. For more than 20 years, pesticide safety testing has included a battery of tests on the honey bee (Apis...

Intensive agriculture isn’t necessarily bad for bees, researchers have found, as long as they have habitat islands with high plant biodiversity. In a study in Scientific Reports, biologists found bees’...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has rolled back a 2014 ban on the use of genetically modified crops and neonicotinoid, or neonic, pesticides on National Wildlife Refuges where farming...

Mason bees are critical pollinators in the high deserts of Arizona, but climate change may drive them out of these and other warm regions as temperatures climb. “They might be...