Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new breed of tiny flying robots that weigh less than a gram ...

Managed honey bees have the potential to affect native bee populations when they are introduced to a new area, but a study ...

Oregano is an abundant source of nutrition for honeybees and other pollinators. They are easily grown from seeds sown indoors ...

and the development of tiny robotic pollinator "bees" could be a key to success. Photo courtesy of Oasis Biotech/U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Whatever they are doing, bees take their jobs seriously, be it pollinating plants or nursing their young. They protect their ...

A 23-year-old ecologist known as "The Bee Man" is on a mission to conserve solitary pollinators by building them structures ...

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Despite the team’s improvements, the robotic insects still cannot match the capabilities of natural pollinators. However, the researchers aim to improve the robots’ flight time and precision to enable ...

Bella Rubietta has devoted dozens of hours to helping a bug so uncommon she has yet to see it. The 14-year-old Prior Lake resident wrote a children’s book and brochures on the topic, held ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Sussex and Rothamsted Research published on Jan. 20 in npj Biodiversity has ...