29 February 2016
26 February 2016, Kuala Lumpur - - A growing number of pollinator species worldwide are being driven toward extinction by diverse pressures, many of them human-made, threatening millions of livelihoods and hundreds of billions of dollars worth of food supplies,...
16 September 2015
Bees pollinate a third of what we eat and play a vital role in sustaining the planet’s ecosystems. Some 84% of the crops grown...
11 June 2015
Many important crops: tomatoes, chili peppers, and blueberries, to name just a few, have a special pollination need, called “buzz pollination”. They store their pollen in enclosed anthers that have a small opening at the tip. A bee must...
10 June 2015
There are a group of bees, very important to the pollination of fruit trees and alfalfa and other crops, which are called “Leafcutter bees”. Very occasionally, in the spring, you might by chance, see a bee fly past as...
Many people are surprised to learn that there are many, many more bees than just the honey bee- around 20,000 different species, in fact. Is one better than the other? It turns out that “working” together, honey bees and...