Researchers worldwide have been scrambling to discover why bees are dying in record numbers. If you're not a huge fan of the bee, why should this matter to you? Well, if you like to eat food, you should be concerned.
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) ā Commercial beekeepers and environmental organizations filed a petition Wednesday, asking federal regulators to suspend use of ...
Scientist Gretchen LeBuhn is trying to save the nation's wild bee population. But to achieve her goal, she's resorting to some unconventional means, n...
Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us? looks at possible causes of colony collapse disorder as well as the millennia-old relationship between bees and humans that had been so mutually beneficial for so long.
The sudden death of bees across the world from Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has confounded scientists and bee keepers across the world. The movie Va...
The Internet is all abuzz about a reported new study suggesting cell phones cause the world's suddenly dwindling population of bees.
Now the British ...
FRESNO, Calif. -- A California proposal to tax beekeepers to pay for research on bees' health has stirred up a swarm, even though all agree more study...
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In Los Angeles, urban beekeeping remains de facto illegal. But despite this outlaw status, the urban beekeeping movement has been gathering momentum and members.
Beekeepers and environmentalists today called on EPA to remove the pesticide Clothianidin, citing a leaked EPA memo that discloses a critically flawed scientific support study.
Each year, our global biosphere endures an onslaught of 5 billion pounds of insecticides. These insecticides have caused a dramatic decline for many common grassland bird species.
A British beekeeper has been working on creating a new strain of honeybee resistant to the varroa mite, a prime suspect in colony collapse disorder (C...
How Insect Are We? is the title of the symposium that opens Pestival, a three-day festival starting today and running to 6 September to celebrate inse...
Looking at our counterparts in the developing world, we'll find that traditional methods of sowing fields and raising bees are both eco-friendly and bee-friendly.
America's bee colonies are collapsing. It's a big mystery, with much at stake. Green websites like TreeHugger have been on the case since the phenom...
People who keep bees commercially keep them to make a living. They take them far and near to fields and farms so the bees can pollinate the crops they...