An artificial “superfood” that provides essential nutrients for bees results in colonies producing much more larvae, suggesting it could help tackle the global decline in honeybees.

Without the bees, humans could face a colony collapse of their own. Previous studies have examined pathogens and flight or foraging using flight mills, entrance counters, and tagged bees.

1. The `fast' and `medium' alleles of malate dehydrogenase (MDH-1) exhibit clines on three continents in Honey-bees (Nielsen, Page & Crosland 1994), suggesting that MDH-1 phenotype may have functional ...

Researchers developed a pest detection system for farms using existing image recognition tech and a statistical method to reduce computing needs. It accurately identified 19 pest types with 99.99% ...

A team has developed a sterol-enriched bee feed that mimics the nutrition of natural pollen. In trials, colonies fed the supplement produced up to 15 times more viable pupae than controls. This ...