Tag: Pollinators

Native bees are declining across the U.S. due to factors like pesticide use, habitat loss  and climate change. But little is known about the habitat needs and plant preferences of...

Past research has suggested that more pollinator biodiversity means less virus among bees. But researchers wondered if it was that simple and what mechanism may be behind it. Was habitat...

A warming climate is contributing to the decline of some alpine bumblebees and moving some subalpine populations to higher elevations. Historically in the Rocky Mountains, two species of bumblebees stayed...

Researchers are collaborating to sequence genomes for as many bee species in the United States as they can, including many that are facing declines. The project, dubbed Beenome100, will be...

Concerns about monarch butterfly populations have made them contenders for Endangered Species Act protections, but a new study contradicts those fears, finding that monarchs are not in as much trouble...

Farmers and other landowners have a new tool in their tool belt to help their properties attract important pollinators. Bumblebees are responsible for a lot of pollination throughout the world....

LED lights’ energy saving properties are making them increasingly common, but they may repel some insects at higher rates than older, halogen-style streetlamps. “We don’t really understand the cause of...

Dozens of rickety, old office cubicle-sized pens line up next to each in the U.S. Geological Survey’s Eastern Ecological Science Center at the Patuxent Research Refuge in Maryland. The ones...

Southeastern sandhill cellophane bees are so rare that they were only discovered in 1997 in Florida, and just a single specimen was discovered in Georgia that same year. But researchers...

They may be tiny and sky bound but it turns out bees have just as much difficulty crossing busy roads in Michigan as larger species that make use of crossing...