Adding probiotics to bees’ food helps make them more resistant to nosemosis, a fungal infection associated with colony collapse disorder that has been observed in Europe and North America ov... Read more
A new method to predict tipping points –  the moment at which sudden change occurs in complex networked systems – may offer insights that prevent colony collapse disorder, a phenomenon in wh... Read more
Bees have been living with the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder for a decade. Simon Klein, Author provided Simon Klein, Université de Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier and Andrew Barron, Macquarie... Read more
Flower strips sown into farmers’ fields not only attract bees but increase their numbers, new University of Sussex research has shown. A two-year study of farms in West Sussex and Hampshire... Read more
AROUND the world, honeybee colonies are dying in huge numbers: About one-third of hives collapse each year, a pattern going back a decade. For bees and the plants they pollinate — as well as... Read more
A researcher at Georgia State University is studying a new, biological treatment for bacterial and fungal pathogens that are killing honeybees and bats in record numbers. Dr. Christopher Cor... Read more
“Hopefully we can reverse the continuing trend of honey bee loss.” Two widely used neonicotinoids—a class of insecticide—appear to significantly harm honey bee colonies over the winter, part... Read more
Open Source Beehives is a citizen science project developed by a team of ecologists, beekeepers, makers, engineers, and open source advocates who want to solve the colony collapse issue. Cur... Read more
Sensors in beehives may capture early signs of disease To the human ear, the buzz of the honeybee can sound like one unchanging hum. Yet a group of researchers hopes that decoding tiny varia... Read more
The quarter-sized RoboBee looks like a fly, but it was designed to save us from colony collapse disorder. If the bees die, we have a robot backup. We take for granted the effortless flight o... Read more
Rick Smith didn’t set out to save the honeybees. Elevator B rises from the industrial wasteland of Buffalo, New York. But it’s not just art, it’s also what might be the most beautiful workin... Read more
Around the world, honey bees have been vanishing at an alarming rate. Since bees not only provide honey, but are also vital for pollinating crops, this is not only distressing, it also puts... Read more
All of the variations in seed coatings and planting methods killed honeybees New research has linked springtime die-offs of honeybees critical for pollinating food crops — part of the... Read more
Honeydrop’s plan to donate profits to bees. When honey is your main ingredient, the prospect of bees dying is quite real and dire. Hence Honeydrop’s plan to donate profits to bee... Read more