August E-News

Encerrado-Manriquez et al. show that honey bee hive sociality influences pesticide deposition across hive matrices, with worker bees buffering the colony and the queen affecting colony-wide distribution patterns. Under chronic exposure, these social defenses become overwhelmed, but queens may survive by offloading contaminants to their offspring.

Environmental temperature profoundly influences honey bee (Apis mellifera) physiology, behavior, and survival. In recent years, nutritional interventions have gained attention as potential strategies to mitigate stress-induced physiological disruptions in honey bees. This study evaluated the efficacy of dietary supplementations enriched with combined prebiotics and probiotics in alleviating temperature-related stress.

Bumblebees collect up to seven times the amount of toxic heavy metals as honeybees even when foraging in the same environment, new research from the University of Cambridge has found. Exposure to these metals can affect everything from their ability to forage for food to their ability to reproduce.

In its first month on the market ApiSave sold 10,000 'patties' said to help honeybees fight disease and parasites.

A group of Calgary-area apiarists are working to reduce the Canadian beekeeping industry's dependence on foreign-imported queens by instead breeding them themselves, with locally-sourced queens potentially better-equipped to survive Canada's harsh winters.

While the world drowns in plastic, researchers are on the hunt for practical materials that are lightweight, tough, and biodegradable. In recent years, scientists have increasingly turned to the natural world for inspiration - with a whole lot of research focusing on the impressive features of spider silk.

Queensland researchers are testing novel ways to kill varroa mites, which have developed a resistance to standard treatments.

Paleontologists have announced the discovery of a new fossil honeybee species that fills a long-standing gap in the evolutionary record of the genus Apis.