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, ...

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 ...

We’re thinking about the crisis facing pollinators all wrong. And we’ve come to a crucial moment ...

It’s a recurring disaster that can seem like a biblical plague: bees cropping up covered in parasites, with deformed wings, or slaughtering their own larvae. Sometimes workers will vanish from the ...

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 ...