Cultivating flowering plants for pollinator gardens, commercial farms, or home landscapes often relies on the use of ...
Bee behavior The insect foraging (for) gene encodes a cyclic GMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG) that affects foraging behavior. In Drosophila two different for alleles have been found, and the two ...
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 ...
“Human beings and honey bees are almost the same word.” According to Prof. Thomas Seeley, the Horace White Professor in Biology Emeritus, in addition to these phonetic similarities, honey bees also ...
An unusual study that involved barcoding and tracking the behavior of thousands of individual honey bees in six queenless beehives and analyzing gene expression in their brains offers new insights ...
Around the world, honeybees are dying in large numbers. This die-off is in part because of a deadly virus that can kill bees or impair their ability to return to the hives after foraging. But ...
Honeybees do not simply broadcast directions to food and hope for the best. A new experimental study published in the ...
Chelsea Cook receives funding from National Institutes of Health, the US Department of Agriculture, and the National Science Foundation. When you try to pick a restaurant with a group of friends, how ...