Tag: bumblebees

Pollinators are less likely to land on flowers sprayed with fertilisers or pesticides as they can detect electric field changes ...

A new paper in PNAS Nexus, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that chemicals used in agriculture, like fertilizers and ...

Bumblebees  don’t seem to keep memories for how sweet a flower was, but instead only remember if it was sweeter ...

Finnish researchers found out how Roundup, a herbicide containing glyphosate, affects the learning and memory of bumblebees. Already a small ...

New research from the University of Ottawa has found the earlier arrival of spring in parts of North America negatively ...

The decline of insects, and in particular pollinating insects, threatens ecosystems and economies around the world. The dimensions are staggering: ...

A study using 10 years of citizen science data from the Bumblebee Conservation Trust’s BeeWalk scheme has found that a ...

Bumblebees are important pollinators because they pollinate many different plant species and are extremely resilient. They can still manage to ...

Bumblebees pollinate many of our favorite foods, but their own diet is being upset by climate change, according to a ...