A seven-year study by Washington State University (WSU) has revealed that less-maintained lands around the Puget Sound are ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The taxonomist who describes a new species gets to name it,” Prendergast tells Jennifer Hassan at the Washington Post. After ...

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 ...

To the casual observer, it's nothing more than an abandoned golf course. But the land, along with other weedy, minimally ...

Kit Prendergast discovered the bee while surveying a critically endangered wildflower and was drawn to the insect's unique ...

he global decline of wild bee populations is alarming. Landscapes characterised by intensive agriculture offer hardly any suitable habitats. Isolated local efforts are often not enough to counteract ...

When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the ...

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 ...

A decade-long study recently published in the journal Northeastern Naturalist found that 352 wild bee species call Vermont ...

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 ...