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Bumblebees Share Knowledge Like Humans and Chimpanzees, Suggesting the Hive Mind Is More Personal

Bumblebees can teach others new behaviors too complex for them to learn alone, suggests a paper published in Nature that essentially posits humans and...

Good News for California Bees: Governor Signs Law to Help Protect Pollinators From Toxic Pesticides

Thanks to the persistence of state legislators, and a change of heart from Governor Gavin Newsom, California has passed a new law that will...

Bumblebees are Hitting Back at Asian Hornets With Top-Tier Combat Skills, Reveals Research

Bumblebees have top-tier combat skills when targeted by Asian hornets, reveals new research. Buff-tailed bumblebees drop to the ground when hornets attack—carrying the pests down...

Bee Therapy Retreat Where Vibrations From Bees and Scent of Honey Believed to Be Healing

The UK's first 'bee therapy' retreat has been launched in Scotland. Apipods—wooden huts with beehives around the exterior—have been popular in Eastern Europe for years....

Bumblebees Learn New ‘Trends’ for Their Behavior by Watching Each Other and Learning

After a few bees figured out how to get a sweet treat from a locked container, the whole hive eventually learned how by watching...

Bus Stops in Scotland Go Green – With Roofs Covered in Plants as a Gift For Honeybees

Dozens of bus stops around the city center of Aberdeen, Scotland, are set for a renovation to turn them into "Bee Bus Stops." Covered in...

World’s First Vaccine for Declining Honeybees Approved By the US for Conditional Use

A biotech company announced this week that the USDA (Department of Agriculture) granted them a conditional license for their honeybee vaccine. The vaccine boosts the...

‘No Mow May’ Gives You a Reason to NOT Mow the Lawn: Leave the Weeds to Feed the Bees

Backyard bee conservation is all the buzz these days, with people planting native pollinator gardens, installing bee houses, and participating in citizen science endeavors...

‘Stingless Bees’ Bring Life Back to the Amazon With Medicinal Honey and New Income

While the rest of modern civilization gets honey mostly from European honeybees, indigenous tribes in Peru's slice of the Amazon get theirs from stingless...

Company’s Innovative Smart Beehive Gets $80 Million in Funding to Save Bees From Any Hazard

Across the world, people and governments are banning pesticides and planting more pollinator-friendly flowers to boost bee populations naturally. Now farmers and beekeeers also have...

Bee Bricks That Help Thousands of Solitary Bees Are Now a Requirement for New Buildings in Brighton

Since 250 of the 270 bee species in Britain are solitary buzzers, the city of Brighton and Hove is establishing mandates to use "bee...

Watch Woman Save Bees By Rescuing Hives From Old Buildings With Her Bare Hands

If an overwhelming sound of buzzing is coming from the siding on your house, or from an old trashcan or other enclosed space, you've...

Thousands of Bees Make It Out Alive After Being Buried by Volcanic Ash for 50 Days

For everything we hear about bees these days, it's hard to believe that they and their hives are capable of surviving a volcanic eruption. But...

Bee Expert Finds 800,000 Wild Honeybees Thriving in Ancient English Forest, Now Naturalists are Buzzing With Hope

Even in a place as populated and developed as southeast England, there are still ecological surprises waiting for those willing enough to be patient...

Bees Have a New, Lifesaving ‘Vaccine’ to Make Them Immune to Pesti-Side Effects

There's been a lot of talk about vaccines these days, but not for bees. But a Cornell student has figured that since our most...

Orchids Make Fake Pollen to Tempt the Bees – But Scientists Discover it’s as Valuable as the Real Thing

Unable to attract bees and other pollinators to its golden pollen, Cypripedium wardii, an orchid species native to Tibet and China, creates "fool's gold" pollen,...

These Homegrown Mushroom Hives Could Save Ireland’s Bees

An Irish designer is hoping to save her island's native bee species by creating special hives grown from mushrooms. Placing on the world Top 20...

Bees Actually Bite Plants to Make Them Flower Early – Surprising Scientists

Despite their name, there's no bumbling in a bumblebee's movements. They are busy surveying your yard for the tastiest and richest supplies of nectar...

5 Alternatives to Toxic Herbicides to Get Rid of Your Summer Weeds Without Killing Bees

If your lawn is anything like the one tended by this author, it's the time of year when weed killing on a wide-scale is...

Flowers Can Hear Buzzing Bees—And it Makes Their Nectar Sweeter

An evolutionary theorist has set out to prove that plants can hear their surroundings, and she was right; they can. Her work, not yet peer-reviewed,...