Discarding this valuable crop protection tool is a questionable strategy ...

It looks as though the period of alarmingly high winter mortality in honeybees is over. And a long-term study by ...

It is time African governments take action ...

Most people would say that life is unpredictable. We have our plans and routines, but there’s no way to tell ...

Another food retailer has announced a plan to minimize its use of pesticides in a bid to help protect pollinators, ...

Capturing wild birds and force-feeding 3-10% of a lethal dose (of anything) is cruel. It’s not surprising birds would become ...

Why is Europe allowing what has been called 'a bizarrely one-sided piece of politicized science' to determine agricultural policy? ...

One of the world’s newest space analogs is inside a white ziggurat on top of a former nuclear bunker in ...

Though colony collapse disorder has generated a great deal of concern, the phenomenon has had “very small effects” on commercial ...

The European Parliament on [October 23] blocked a diluted proposal by the 28-nation bloc’s executive arm on protecting bees from ...

EU countries [Ocotber 22] voted not to extend the license of the insecticide thiacloprid when it expires at the end ...

Ecologists and biologists compared data of about 1,500 agricultural fields around the world, including corn fields in the American plains, ...

Argentina-based startup Beeflow has developed a special nutrient-packed formula for bees meant to boost their immune systems and make them ...

For European rapeseed farmers, honey bees buzzing around fields may outweigh the benefits of using pesticides to fight insect damage, ...

New research has found a widely used and increasingly controversial insecticide has “negligible” benefits for commercially grown soybeans. Pesticide makers ...

The German agriculture ministry strenuously rubbished a claim by farmers association DBV that the country’s new insect protection plan, which ...

Ever year, farmers in the United States devote at least 80 million acres, a combined landmass three-quarters the size of ...

There’s something of a civil war brewing in the organic movement. On one side are industry boosters boasting about how ...

Rapeseed sowings in major EU producers could increase after this summer’s poor harvest although restrictions on insecticides are causing problems ...

The US Department of Agriculture will resume data collection for its annual Honey Bee Colonies report on October 1 -- ...

Oregon Democrats are asking the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to defend its decision to expand the use of a pesticide ...

Plants can do many amazing things. Among their talents, they can manufacture compounds that help them repel pests, attract pollinators, ...

Beekeepers asked the Ninth Circuit on [September 6] to block the federal government’s approval of the unrestricted use of the ...

A new study provides valuable insights into pollen abundance and diversity available to honeybee colonies employed in five major pollinator-dependent ...

In a first-ever study investigating the risk of neonicotinoid insecticides to ground-nesting bees, University of Guelph researchers have discovered at ...

The failure to grant a derogation for the use of Redigo Deter seed dressing – which contains the neonicotinoid clothianidin ...

A natural, sustainable alternative to pesticides that targets specific pests, without harming beneficial pollinators such as honeybees, is being developed ...

According to the Bee Informed Partnership, 37.7% of managed honey bee colonies were lost during the 2018-19 winter — the ...