No, the buzzing you hear isn’t the iPhone in your pocket. It’s a honey bee—and the impact it has on pollinating the crops you eat is worth its slightly obnoxious presence. The importance of bees to ...

Bee colonies are rapidly declining, which spells bad news for the environment. As of 2025, annual honey bee colony losses in the U.S. are projected to reach between 60% and 70%. Although not all ...

Honey bees across America are facing a crisis that threatens their very existence.Research from the University of ...

The vegetative parts of mushrooms may hold the cure to viruses that kill bees. Honey bees may derive health benefits from the certain parts of mushrooms, giving them a chance to combat viruses that ...

Did you know that 75-95 percent of all flowering plants rely on pollinators for pollination? North Carolina has a $78-billion agriculture economy that depends on pollinators for crops such as ...

Humanity’s relationship with bees stretches back into our species’ history, with the earliest pictorial records of apiculture dating to about 1600 BC. For most of that time, human and bee populations ...

Honey bees are vital to the environment. The western honey bee (Apis mellifera) ranks as the most frequent single pollinator species for crops worldwide. Bees provide a crucial ecosystem service, as ...

MADISON, Wis. -- This week is Pollinator Week, an annual celebration in support of pollinator health that was initiated and is managed by Pollinator Partnership. The Wisconsin Department of Natural ...

There are some 20,000 different species of bees here on planet Earth, and of those 20,000 species, one out of every four are at risk of extinction, according to The Bee Conservancy. Why should that ...

No, the buzzing you hear isn’t the iPhone in your pocket. It’s a honey bee—and the impact it has on pollinating the crops you eat is worth its slightly obnoxious presence. The importance of bees to ...