Organic farming and flower strips promote the health of honey bees. In their vicinity, colonies grow stronger and are generally healthier. This is most likely because the insects have a diverse and ...

How effective environmental measures in agriculture are for biodiversity and wild bee populations depends on various factors and your perspective. This is shown by agroecologists from the University ...

A field study across seventeen German farms shows that organic management boosts masked bee abundance and alters the sex ...

Where once there were vast areas of forest and other natural habitats, farmland now covers much of Earth – including 70% of the UK. This transition has helped feed a growing number of people. However, ...

In preparation for opening Kasumisou Bakery, I have been helping out at a bee farm for about a year."Why beekeeping when you're a bakery?"You might be thinking that.It all started at a farmers market.

Mass-blooming, monoculture crop fields don’t seem to reduce the microbial diversity in a bee’s gut, but they do amplify the spread of infectious parasites, a new study of sunflower farms shows. The ...