By Julie Shapiro
Grabbing a meal on the go isn’t easy — and that’s true whether you’re a human or a bee.
Like us, honey bees face a wide variety of challenges every day. Finding nutritious, complete meals is increasingly becoming a problem for these industrious pollinators. The rapid and recent losses of pollinator habitat and forage across North America, driven in …
Study provides the first evidence that a broadly used pesticide alone can harm bee flight
University of California - San Diego
A honey bee (Apis mellifera) is harnessed for study on a flight mill in biology
professor James Nieh's laboratory, UC San Diego. Credit: Simone Tosi
Biologists at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated for the first time that a widely …
University of Adelaide
Research conducted at the University of Adelaide has discovered that bees have much better vision than was previously known, offering new insights into the lives of honey bees, and new opportunities for translating this knowledge into fields such as robot vision.
The findings come from "eye tests" given to western honey bees (also known as European honey bees, Apis …