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Plants have always played an integral role in traditional medicine and healing practices, according to Kent Vrana, Elliot S. Vesell Professor of Pharmacology at Penn State College of Medicine, and...

When a bee crashes into water, it may still be able to swim to safety. New research from Michigan State University confirms that honeybees can propel themselves across the water's...

Groundbreaking research from Finnish universities reveals bumble bees can solve completely novel problems without training — rivalling the cognitive feats of chimpanzees and challenging big-brain assumptions.

For generations, scientists believed a queen honeybee was made almost entirely by diet: feed an ordinary larva enough royal jelly and a ruler emerges. But new research suggests queens are...

Groundbreaking research from the University of Bristol shows that insect pollinator decline directly threatens human nutrition and livelihoods — responsible for 44% of smallholder farming income and over 20% of...

There is not yet much research on the effects of heat waves on bees. What little there is focuses on super extremes of weather that would kill an adult bee....