Spring is approaching in the northern hemisphere, and with it come the perennial considerations about which kinds of flowers ...

A new method of examining gene expression patterns called landscape transcriptomics may help pinpoint what causes bumble bees stress and could eventually give insight into why bee populations are ...

Pesticides, widely used to protect crops from pests, often unintentionally harm pollinators like bumble bees. A new study, ...

That’s why, after defending her doctorate in entomology and biology at North Carolina State University, she immediately ...

which makes her the doted-upon mother of all of the bees in the hive. Unlike termites, who have both a king and queen, the unique biology of honeybees make it impossible for male royalty as the ...

Social behavior in insects, kin recognition system of honey bees, nest defense in honey bees, and social biology of the giant tropical ant. Kin recognition studies are designed to examine the various ...

And that was my path too,” said Michael Matise, associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology at ...

Would bees that communicated similarly yield more ... The findings were recently published in Current Biology. "Although the waggle dance itself is fascinating, my lab has additionally been ...

Bees take more than 75 years to return to restored grasslands, warns new research. The finding underlines the importance of preserving grassy areas as reservoirs of biodiversity, say scientists.

The effects of pesticide exposure on pollinator health may be more complicated than originally thought, according to a team of researchers in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences who recently ...