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Bees
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Bees Bred With Some Special Genes Are Killing It
Backyard breeders are creating a new kind of hero honeybee—one that chomps off the legs of mites and saves the hive.
Bumblebees Are Climate Change Deniers
Bumblebees risk extinction by failing to react to climate change.
Bee-Harming Pesticides Are More Common Than Anyone Thought
Neonicotinoids, toxic to bees and other insects, are spreading to farms through direct seed treatments—a factor that's gone unmeasured until now.
How Bee Waggle Dances Could Inform Environmental Policy
To survey for pollinator foraging areas, researchers could tramp around and record what they find. Or a hive of bees could do the legwork for them.
Will Digital Beehives Save Us From Colony Collapse Disorder?
New software allows researchers to model life inside a bee colony more efficiently, which could help prevent economic catastrophe.
Citizen Scientists Look for Bees Behaving Badly
The idea of having lots of average people collect data for Certified Important Research TM is a hot…