Pesticides, widely used to protect crops from pests, often unintentionally harm pollinators like bumble bees. A new study, ...

A new study has revealed a surprising wrinkle in our understanding of how pesticides affect bumble bees across the seasons.

A new investigation from The Guardian shows that heavy pesticide use in almond groves is causing massive die-offs among bee colonies.The World's Almond Milk Craze Is Killing Bees at a Staggering ...

While the exact cause of heightened bee colony losses nationwide is unknown, possible factors include parasites, pathogens, pesticides and poor nutrition. Federal funding cuts to the USDA and research ...

Bee-killing pesticides have been found in 85% of tested rivers in England, an analysis of Government figures has found. Green groups looked at Environment Agency data on neonicotinoid pesticides ...

WASHINGTON— The Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday that it has approved emergency use of a bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticide on up to 75,000 acres of Florida citrus crops, including ...

Joan Edwards, director of policy and public affairs at The Wildlife Trusts, said: “There is simply no place in modern sustainable agriculture for highly toxic pesticides that kill bees and ...

We found that in 71% of cases studied, pesticides kill or harm soil invertebrates like earthworms, ants, beetles and ground-nesting bees. We found negative effects across all studied pesticide classes ...

Scientists have discovered that the venom of the world’s deadliest spider will kill of pests but won ... of Newcastle fed large doses of the pesticide to bees in a lab - far beyond what they ...

The threats the bumblebee face are three-pronged: loss of habitat, use of pesticides and climate change. This winter has been especially harmful to bees, as we’ve had an unusual number of days ...