Flowering strips - pollinator-friendly rows of plants that increase foraging habitat for bees - can help offset pollinator decline but may also bring risks of higher pathogen infection rates for ...

Flowering strips -- plants used to augment bee foraging habitats -- can help increase bee reproduction but may also increase pathogen infection rates. Flowering strips -- pollinator-friendly rows of ...

The loss of flowering plants and the widespread use of pesticides could be a double punch to wild bee populations. In a new study, researchers found that the combined threats reduced blue orchard bee ...

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. When you think of bees, a hive humming with activity probably comes to mind. But most of ...

Philip Donkersley receives funding from a joint EPSRC/ESRC Impact Acceleration Account fund. He is currently affiliated with the Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology as an independent ...

The loss of flowering plants and the widespread use of pesticides could be a double punch to wild bee populations. In a new study, researchers at the University of California, Davis, found that the ...

AMHERST – A new study reported this week suggests that flower strips offer benefits for bumblebee colony reproduction, but some plants do increase infection risk for the bees. The research was ...

With the warm weather, bees are finally getting the chance to pollinate. This is something farms have been waiting for weeks to do. Beekeepers say those weeks of missed pollination could have some ...

Bees exposed to a single dose of pesticide may require generations to recover, new research has revealed. Pesticide is known to cause population decline in bees but the extent it has over time is ...

Bees exposed to a single dose of pesticide may require generations to recover, new research has revealed. Pesticide is known to cause population decline in bees but the extent it has over time is ...