Researchers at UMass Amherst deploy fluorescent paint, pipettes, tents, tweezers and scissors to trace three-way connection between plants, pathogens and bees
Conservation strategies are urgently needed for widely used tree species. Increasing numbers of species are threatened by overexploitation and their recovery might be poor due to low reproductive success and poor...
There’s an article recently published in Psyche, that might be of interest to botanists Busy Bees: Variation in Insect Flower-Visiting Rates across Multiple Plant Species. It’s not a surprise that there are...
Colony Collapse Disorder is bad news, even if you hate honey as much as I do. Disappear honey bees doesn’t just mean less honey, they pollinate many plants. The value of honey bee pollination is billions of...
Saving the bees is a popular cause, and with good reason. They’re essential for pollinating many important crops. However, we don’t always coΓΆrdinate our aims and our actions. There are concerns that various...