Bees

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to Sacred Heart University’s Bee Health and Ecology Objective, or Bee-HERO, to help six undergraduate students research bees in Sweden.

Popular slogans and ad campaigns have urged the public to save honeybees. But reports suggest those efforts were directed at saving the wrong bees.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has until the end of December to sign the Birds and Bees Protection Act, a law that would cut down on the use of neonicotinoids, toxic pesticides that are harmful to pollinators.

Environmentalists in New York are urging Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign the Birds and Bees Protection Act into law. It would cut down on the use of neonicotinoids — toxic pesticides that are harmful to pollinators, like bees.

The New York state Assembly held a hearing on whether the state should strictly limit the use of a chemical in pesticides linked to the die-off of…

An insect that hadn’t been seen in Connecticut for a century has been popping up again. It’s called the black-and-gold bumblebee.Bombus Auricomus — that’s…

A bill will be considered by New York lawmakers in January that would protect unwelcomed honeybee colonies from extermination.It was petitioned by…

Honey bees have been having a tough time lately. Pests and disease have plagued many hives, killing off the pollinators and forcing people looking to save…

A disease that acts similar to HIV could be killing bees around the country, and a teenager from Greenport, Long Island, has an award-winning theory on…