A high-tech approach to monitoring bee activity inside the nest reveals how the neonicotinoid imidacloprid impairs colony growth.

The insects fell silent as the moon cast a shadow over parts of North America last summer, researchers report.

A bee researcher finds that his subjects are protected from viral infections when they dine on fungus.

Revered as a humanitarian and scientist, Kerr was also blamed for the introduction of aggressive Africanized bees to the Americas.

A study of chemical tags on histone proteins hints at how the same genome can yield very different animals.

Sulfoxaflor, an alternative insect-killer to older chemicals that decimate pollinators, turns out to kneecap colonies.

Urban colonies had more offspring, survived longer, and hosted fewer parasites.

The insects correctly ordered an absence of black dots as “less than” a group of black dots.

The pesticides, which studies show are harmful to bees, will be prohibited in open fields by the end of 2018.