Social honey bees stay cool: How groups mitigate heat-triggered hormone spikes

Heat can change a honey bee's hormone levels, but only if the bee is alone. New research from MSU entomologist Zachary Huang ...
Earth.com

Bees handle extreme heat better when they’re not alone

Bees cope with heat better when they’re together. A new study shows social signals can prevent stress responses under extreme ...
CNN

These groups are working to save bees and butterflies on the brink. Here’s how you can help the pollinators

You can help Mother Nature in a battle for survival. Pollinators, which provide one out of every three bites of our food, are struggling. Five butterfly species in the United States have gone extinct ...
Forbes

Inside A Billionaire Bee Colony

Stewart and Lynda Resnick’s Wonderful Co. is among a handful of honey bee farms responsible for the pollination of a third of Americans’ food. But the real buzz is how they rent them out. Thousands of ...
Los Angeles Times

Entering the sacred realm of the bees with honey bee therapy

Marvin Jordana laid a hand on the beehive in his Eagle Rock backyard and said a silent prayer. After a few moments, he spoke: “I ask for their permission to enter the hive, because this is their body.
Ars Technica

Bees like to roll little wooden balls as a form of play, study finds

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...
Popular Science

Temperature tells honey bees what time it is

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Popular Science

Why some bees and wasps are more likely to sting you

🛍️ Amazon Big Spring Sale: 100+ editor-approved deals worth buying right now 🛍️ By Lauren Leffer Updated Jun 3, 2021 9:27 AM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred ...
The Conversation

Wild solitary bees offer a vital pollination service – but their nutritional needs aren’t understood

As I walk around the supermarket, I pick up vegetables for tomorrow’s dinner, eggs and bread for tonight and some sweet treats for the week. By choosing a range of different food types, I’ll eat a ...
The New York Times

His Bees Fly to the Front Line. Soon, It May Come to Him.

With nearby sunflower fields unplanted and rockets overhead, a Ukrainian’s bees ventured toward the battlefront and returned with a bumper crop. By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Natalia Yermak BOHDANIVKA, ...
The State

These special bees can dig holes in your yard in SC. Should you be worried?

An image of a mining bee, also referred to as a ground bee. screenshot Courtesy of the Missouri Department of Conservation Spring is underway in South Carolina, filling yards again with life, ...