U.S. bee colonies decimated by mysterious ailment
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A mysterious disease is killing off U.S. honeybees, threatening to disrupt pollination of a range of crops and costing beekeepers hundreds of thousands of dollars, industry experts said on Monday.
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Scientific sleuths have a new suspect for a mysterious affliction that has killed off honeybees by the billions: a virus previously unknown in the United States.
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Some experts on insect biology say that without better monitoring, there is not enough information to know if anything new or calamitous is happening to honeybees.
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New analysis of how American cities responded to the killer Spanish flu of 1918 suggests that closing schools, banning large gatherings, staggering work hours and quarantining households of the ill may have saved tens of thousands of lives.
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Honeybees could be keeping a cornucopia of anti-cancer compounds in their hives, early research in mice suggests.
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Bee Columnist. Sean Harrigan and his acolytes are spinning a melodramatic tale about his ouster from the governing board of the huge California Public Employees&#39; Retirement System - that he
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Buzzed bees may help scientists better understand drunken human behavior, say Ohio State University researchers. &quot;Alcohol affects bees and humans in similar ways -- it impairs
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The once abundant shrimp of the legendary Rio Grande in Jamaica have become scarce and what can still be caught are often poisoned, a result of manâs impact on the natural world.
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Bee stings have long been known to relieve some of the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, but only now has the reason for this been clarified.
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Hundreds of medicinal plants are at risk of extinction, threatening the discovery of future cures for disease, experts warn.
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NEW YORK  - Bee stings have long been known  to relieve some of the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, but  only now has the reason for this been clarified.
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Blog: Berkeley researchers have documented the super-fast recovery of tropical Hypolimnas bolina butterflies from the onslaught of a bacteria that killed only males.
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It's a sweet time for honeybees in the rolling hills of eastern Pennsylvania, and the ones humming around Dennis vanEngelsdorp seem too preoccupied by the blooming knapweed nearby to sting him as he carefully lifts the top off their hive. VanEngelsdorp, Pennsylvania's state apiarist, spots signs of plenty within: honeycomb stocked with yellow pollen, neat rows of wax hexagons housing larval bees, and a fertile queen churning out eggs.
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Funds research into apiarian apocalypse Ice cream manufacturer HÃ¤agen-Dazs is stumping up a $250,000 research grant to university researchers in California and Pennsylvania to probe the cause of "Colony Collapse Disorder" (CCD) - the unexplained sudden disappearance of millions of honeybees which has affected hives around the world since 2006.â¦
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Scientists yesterday identified a virus as one of the likely causes of the recent wave of honeybee colony collapses across the country.
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Bee Washington Bureau. WASHINGTON - In the three decades that there&#39;s been an Endangered Species Act, a single principle has reigned supreme: If a critter is heading toward extinction, protect
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A swarm of bees that attacked a work crew earlier this month may be of the Africanized variety, which would mark the furthest north the so-called "killer" bees have traveled in the United States, scientists said.