The absence of butterflies in 2024 has been devastatingly obvious, even in the most important, flower-rich areas in Ireland.

If you want to encourage these little pollinators to nest in your yard, set aside an area of sparsely covered, sandy soil in ...

This year, commercial beekeepers in the U.S. lost about 60% of their bees – more than double average losses. What do those losses mean for beekeepers, and what do we know about the cause?

Extreme weather impacts everything, including phenological events. New research shows just how detrimental these effects can be.

H-O-T-T-O-O-A-K: The air is warming, the blossoms are showing off, and everyone you know is sneezing. You might have heard ...

Charles Darwin proposed a simple explanation. He believed bees chose the same flowers again and again because switching would ...

We all welcome the beauty of butterflies, bees and ladybirds – but there are some less well-known and frankly ...

Honeybee populations are again declining, threatening crops. But the honeybee is not the only bee that can work in the fields ...

Many plants need to be pollinated to produce fruits or seeds to make more plants. But if pollinators are scarce in your area ...

Out of over 20,000 bee species worldwide, most of us are probably familiar with worker bees that live in hives and nests, ...

When people think of flowers for honey bees and pollinators, gardens and wildflower prairies often come to mind. However, ...

Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and they’re both cooler and ecologically more ...