Bees

Wild bees play a critical but often overlooked role in ecosystems, quietly pollinating both agricultural crops and native plants. While honeybees tend to get most of the attention, the vast majority of bee species live solitary lives, with many of them nesting underground in soil habitats that are both easy to miss and easy to destroy.

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research.A new study finds that fish are similar to humans in how they sleep.And researchers used a drone to track honey bees. They found the insects have surprisingly precise flight patterns.

The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education, and research.A new study finds that fish are similar to humans in how they sleep.And researchers used a drone to track honey bees. They found the insects have surprisingly precise flight patterns.

Commercial honeybees are experiencing a higher-than-normal die-off this year and researchers aren't sure why.

There’s a buzz at Betterbee as the pollination season begins. WAMC visited the nationwide beekeeping equipment and education supplier in Washington County.

Advocacy groups are criticizing Governor Phil Scott for vetoing a bill that would restrict the use of a pesticide that kills bees.

This Sunday, July 18 at 4 p.m., The Spencertown Academy Arts Center will present beekeeper Sheri Bauer in an online event entitled “SymBeeOtic: Embracing…

Peter Nelson is the director of “The Pollinators,” a documentary that follows his travels around the United States following migratory beekeepers as they…

New York U.S. Senator Charles Schumer was in northern New York today to illustrate how a new USDA plan could hurt honey bee colonies.Fourth generation…

Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer visited Albany’s Radix Ecological Sustainability Center Monday to raise awareness about a U.S. Department…