The late-summer bloom of heather in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland coats the range in lovely purple flowers. Beekeepers ...
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When the late summer sun falls over Ireland's Wicklow Mountains, the slopes turn purple with blooming heather. Honeybees are moved to the heathlands for the sought-after heather honey, but their ...
Resource overlap between wild bees and honeybees on Giannutri Island. Credit: Current Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.02.048 Researchers from the University of Florence and University of Pisa ...
Life in a big city is stressful — even for a tiny creature like a wild bee, according to a recent study by a team of researchers based at York University in Toronto. These scientists collaborated to ...
In the first long-term, community-level field study of wild bumble bee nutrition, a team of ecologists led by Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden discovered that wild bees aren't ...
Bees and other pollinators have been on the decline for years, and experts blame a combination of factors: insecticides, parasites, disease, climate change and lack of a diverse food supply. A ...
New research led by UBC landscape ecologist Dr. Matthew Mitchell highlights the link between lost wild pollinators and food production and proposes ways the public can contribute to protecting wild ...
When ecologist Rachael Winfree first began studying bees 25 years ago, she happened upon a surprise: a species of plasterer bee in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, not seen in 50 years and suspected to ...
A research team has investigated the importance of limestone quarries for wild bee conservation. Diverse landscapes with good connectivity between quarries and calcareous grasslands proved to be ...
There has been an overwhelming drop in the number of wild bee species that are reported in public records over the past 30 years, according to a new study. Researchers looked at bee records in the ...
Recent counts of bee species across New England identified 325 species in New Hampshire and 278 in Maine. Greater diversity ...