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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance

Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance

Tired Earth May 07, 2024

Understanding how organisms tolerate temperature extremes is critical for assessing the threat climate change poses to species' distribution and persistence.

Researchers learn how nectar-laden honey bees avoid overheating

Researchers learn how nectar-laden honey bees avoid overheating

Tired Earth March 02, 2024

Honey bees carrying nectar have the remarkable ability to adjust their flight behavior to avoid overheating when air temperatures increase,....

Bees are still being harmed despite tightened pesticide regulations

Bees are still being harmed despite tightened pesticide regulations

Hannah Steiner December 12, 2023

A new study has confirmed that pesticides, commonly used in farmland, significantly harm bumblebees one of the most important wild....

UK allows emergency use of bee-toxic pesticides after EU tightens rules

UK allows emergency use of bee-toxic pesticides after EU tightens rules

Hannah Steiner January 26, 2023

This is the third time in a row that the UK has permitted such a move.

Honey bee life spans are 50% shorter today than they were 50 years ago

Honey bee life spans are 50% shorter today than they were 50 years ago

Debbie Banks November 14, 2022

In an effort to understand why, researchers have focused on environmental stressors, diseases, parasites, pesticide exposure and nutrition.

Bee Biodiversity Is One Way Nature ‘Diversifies Its Portfolio’

Bee Biodiversity Is One Way Nature ‘Diversifies Its Portfolio’

Hannah Steiner September 20, 2022

Biodiversity of the bee population is critical to maintaining the ecosystem function of crop pollination, which in turn is crucial....

Bee it known: Biodiversity is critical to ecosystems

Bee it known: Biodiversity is critical to ecosystems

Hannah Steiner September 12, 2022

Rutgers University has conducted the first study showing how many more species of bees are needed to maintain crop yields....

Wild bees and other insects are disappearing in the UK

Wild bees and other insects are disappearing in the UK

March 30, 2019

If you live in the United Kingdom, you may have noticed that wild bees and other insects seem less in....