With the warm weather, bees are finally getting the chance to pollinate. This is something farms have been waiting for weeks to do. Beekeepers say those weeks of missed pollination could have some ...

(Beyond Pesticides, April 25, 2025) A novel study in Chemosphere finds impacts on male fertility in a bee species (Osmia bicornis) with exposure to sulfoxaflor, a systemic sulfoximine insecticide with ...

For flowering plants, reproduction is a question of the birds and the bees. Attracting the right pollinator can be a matter ...

Bees and other beneficial insects experience multiple stressors within agricultural landscapes that act together to impact their health and diminish their ability to deliver the ecosystem services on ...

The Csd gene, of which there may be more than 100 variants, plays a key role in determining the sex of bees. These genes are brought together during sexual reproduction: Where the genome subsequently ...