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All through late summer and early fall, Max McCarthy, a graduate student at Rutgers University, walked around wetlands in northern New Jersey with a mesh net catching bees, which he marked with tiny ...

Several years ago, so many bees, flies, wasps and other pollinating insects would be buzzing around blooming flowers in our gardens, orchards, woodlands and fields that we took the creatures for ...

Iowans who are buzzing with enthusiasm for boosting the pollinator population ought to take part in the second annual Backyard Bumble Bee Count, starting Friday. Jill Utrup, a biologist with the U.S.

Ah, the wee but mighty honeybee – lauded more for its indefatigable work ethic than its ability to add and subtract. But the pollinator is smarter than its size suggests. Bees have already proven they ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Many plants have taken advantage of the warmth lately and are blooming ahead of schedule. When it’s warm and dry, plants pollinate and provide food for bees. Bob Walker is the owner ...

Bees are pretty good at math — as far as insects go, at least. We already know, for example, that they can count up to four and even understand the concept of zero. But in a new study, published ...

Threatened honeybees, endangered bumblebees, fading butterflies — we hear alarms all the time about the global decline in pollinators, but does anybody really know how many are out there? Starting May ...

The decline of bee populations is a looming crisis, but there is a dearth of scientific data. Hyperlocal researchers, with nets and notebooks, could be key. Max McCarthy, an ecologist and Ph.D.