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Strawberries are smaller when bees ingest pesticides. Isolated mountaintops teem with unique insect communities. Royal beekeeper had to…
Solitary bees that ingested the pesticide clothianidin when foraging from rapeseed flowers became slower. In addition, the strawberries pollinated by…
Harmful pesticides found in milkweeds from retail nurseries. Flowering plants are 150 million years older than previously thought. Dawson's…
A new study found harmful levels of pesticides in milkweed plants purchased from retail nurseries across the United States. Pesticides were found in all…
August 2022
IRA has $20 billion to fix farms – and help pollinators. How is climate change stressing bees? Look at their wings. Backyard mosquito…
The funds are designed, in part, to help farmers create habitat for pollinators like bees and butterflies, store more carbon in the soil, and make farms…
U.S. Congress is set to pass a huge wildlife conservation bill. Self‑pollinating plant shows rapid loss of genetic variation. Survey finds…
Recovering America’s Wildlife Act would provide close to $1.4 billion a year for restoring wildlife populations across the country. At its core, RAWA…
Crustaceans ‘pollinate’ seaweed. Could carbon dioxide be a new tool against varroa mites? Burned forest now landscape abuzz with bees and…
When it comes to reproduction, one type of red algae gets by with a little help from its friends: small sea crustaceans that transport sex cells between…
July 2022
What is behind the dramatic decline in bee populations? Moths pollinate clover flowers at night, after bees have gone home. If insects feel…
A dramatic decline in the bee population at fruit farms in New Jersey and Pennsylvania has scientists wondering whether it is a natural phenomenon or a…
The DNA of hundreds of insect species is in your tea. When humans are forced to replace the bees they killed. Urban ag can promote bee…
Minute remnants preserved among the dried leaves might help scientists track pests and monitor population declines.
Bumble bees kept in isolation become social butterflies later. Ag consortium seeks to appeal recent ruling that protects bumble bees…
Researchers expected that, as had been previously shown with a variety of organisms, bumble bees who were socially isolated would exhibit more…
Growing a highway for U.K.'s insect ‘commuters’. Endangered Species Act restored in U.S. Reflections on the state of bee monitoring.
Imagine traveling vast distances through a barren wilderness without access to food or water. That’s the challenging reality facing many flying insects…
Rare bumble bee sighted in Wales. State of emergency for Australian honey bees. A third of Brits have no idea why bees are so important.
A species of bumble bee thought to have disappeared from Wales has been recorded in Carmarthenshire for the first time since 1973. "We found nine…
June 2022
Once-Common California bumble bees have gone missing. EU proposes cutting pesticides by half by 2030. Clues to wild bee health found in…
Several species of California bumble bees have gone missing in the first statewide census of the fuzzy pollinators in 40 years. "Even the most dominant…
Social life of Australian bee offers insights on evolution. Exposure to novel insecticide impairs bumble bee behavior. Monarch butterfly…
The unusual social life of a native species of Australian bee has shed light on how cooperative behaviors in bees evolved. Scientists have analyzed the…
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