The USDA Economic Research Service released the June Sugar and Sweeteners Outlook on June 18. Though the monthly report is focused on sugar prices and production and import volume, this month’s report ...

Buzz pollination—a process in which bees extract pollen by vibrating flowers—occurs in more than 20,000 plant species. Among the most specialized examples are the wildflowers of the Pedicularis genus ...

This past summer, Shae Loecke saw something almost too good to be true. While walking near the Iowa Memorial Union footbridge ...

These bees come from the "Old World" and are very effective pollinators for plants from the "Old World." However, when it ...

15-Oct-2024 3:10 PM EDT, by College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Around 90% of the country’s commercial bee colonies congregate in ...

Bees are dying—and at an alarming rate. Between 2023 and 2024, U.S. beekeepers lost an estimated 55.1 percent of their colonies—the worst loss in more than a decade and nearly 15 percent higher than ...

Above: Bumble bees buzz pollinate crops like tomatoes when they collect pollen, which they store in a ball on their hind legs. It’s hard to deny the absolute benefits of the honey bee, but did you ...

An international research team led by the Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research at the University of Vienna has made an extraordinary discovery: fossilized lime blossoms and fossilized bumble ...

DEANNA. THANK YOU. AND TONIGHT, A LOOK AT THE BUSINESS OF HONEYBEES. THEY PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE POLLINATING OUR FOOD AND FLOWERS. AS WEATHERWATCH 12 METEOROLOGIST GINO RECCHIA EXPLAINS. SMOKE DOESN’T ...

Honeybees are outcompeting wild pollinators in the U.K., and new research has found evidence of their aggressive behavior, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did you know Pollinator Week begins June 17, and runs through Sunday, June 23? To celebrate, let's look at some of our important ...

As the world's native bee populations are declining, crop production requiring pollinators increasingly relies on commercial pollination services. In the U.S., the beekeeping industry is in great ...