Sick bees choose healthier food sources
Sick bees tend to consume higher-quality pollen compared to healthy bees, according to new research. In a study published in Microbial Ecology, researchers were ...
Pollinators
Bayer’s “Feed a Bee” funds Illinois college prairie
For over two years, a small liberal arts college in the suburbs of Chicago has been converting its campus to native prairie to nourish ecologically vital ...
Honey bees pollinate a lot more than just crops
Buzz about the agricultural significance of honey bees and concerns about the implications of their decline for food production are widespread, but discussions ...
Student research highlights pollinator preferences
Pollinating insects — such as bees, beetles and butterflies — choose habitats with the most flower cover, according to a student’s undergraduate research that ...
Bayer Bee Care and TWS partner to improve bee health
When Daymond Hughes was around 10 years old, he started beekeeping alongside his grandfather, a hobby that would continue to interest him years later. That passion ...
Farmland milkweed supports more monarch eggs
Ever since they learned that the monarch butterfly’s swift decline is tied to reductions in its host plant, conservationists have been planting milkweed alongside ...
The return of monarch butterflies: Protection and restoration of milkweed habitat
Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) are one of the most iconic butterflies found in the U.S. These spectacular insects are fascinating in many ways, particularly ...
Climate change may be depriving bumblebees of food
Bumblebees gather pollen twice as fast as honeybees, but new research from Colorado suggests that climate change may be straining the wildflowers available to ...
Bayer and partners help create pollinator habitat
When most people think about Bayer, they automatically think of aspirin, the company’s most famous product. What they probably don’t know is that the company ...
Atlanta residents welcome pollinators to their urban gardens
The next time you bite into a juicy pear, thank the bees buzzing outside. Thirty-five percent of the world’s crop production depends on pollinators like birds, ...