The estimate of 5.5 million species of insects is interesting. What’s even more remarkable is that because scientists have ...

Birds, bats, bees, bumblebees and butterflies have all been affected, with some populations shrinking by 80% or more. The causes include habitat loss, pesticides and climate change. And recent ...

It’s a recurring disaster that can seem like a biblical plague: bees cropping up covered in parasites, with deformed wings, or slaughtering their own larvae. Sometimes workers will vanish from ...

Researchers have shown for the first time that bumblebee colonies are more likely to become infested with bumblebee wax moths ...

Commercial beekeepers in Texas know an acceptable loss of bees can be between 13% and 17% from perennial factors like disease or insects, but they have seen a nearly 66% decrease in bee colony ...

Native plants are not only adapted to our climate but also play a crucial role in supporting local wildlife, particularly pollinators like bees and butterflies," Deneweth's website says.

Honey bees aren’t a natural alternative to crop treatments — the factory-made pesticides, fertilizers and crop strains that farmers routinely use to coax more produce out of their fields.