Beware of buying “bee-friendly” plants — they might end up killing your friendly backyard bees. As gardeners have been waking up to the pollinator crisis, many have been planting bee-friendly veggies ...

Apologies to Shakespeare, but Carbondale has answered the question of whether it’s nobler to be or … to bee. That’s better than a B if grading, considering that about a third of food we eat comes ...

Plants that attract bees are necessary for a thriving ecosystem. Here's the trees, shrubs and flowers pollinators prefer most. I had the opportunity to evaluate a university campus recently for ...

Thanks to a new discovery, however, a bee-friendly pesticide could soon be cheaper and easier to produce. Certain plant families, such as citrus and mahogany, naturally produce organic chemicals known ...

Ahh, spring at UC Santa Barbara — time to shake off winter’s weariness and delight in the balmy weather, the fresh air and the greenery. Turns out students aren’t the only ones enjoying the warm ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Take a second to imagine a world without fragrant flowers, apples, or almonds. Unfortunately, experts say that could be the case if we don’t work to help our most precious ...

Bumblebee experts in England are celebrating a rise in the population of one of the country's rarest bumblebees. The ...

Biologists at the University of Newcastle combined the venom of the Australian funnel spider with snowdrop plant protein to make the pesticide Pesticide was fed to bees and had next to no effect on ...

The bee population situation has gotten so dire that the White House has created a bee task force. As the bee population dwindles, scientists and researchers look for an explanation and a solution.