Contacts for media: Emily Gowdey-Backus, [email protected] and Nancy Cicco, 978-934-4944, [email protected] LOWELL, Mass. – Aiming to better understand the pollination process, a UMass ...

In South Park, at the southern edge of Kenosha Pass, elephant's heads colored moist meadows for miles. Dense populations filled the high valleys drained by the Cimarron River, and they made a good ...

In the summertime, the air is thick with the low humming of bees delivering pollen from one flower to the next. If you listen closely, a louder buzz may catch your ear. This sound is the key to a ...

Buzzing by bees during flower pollination is significantly more powerful than that used for defense or flight, according to a new study. Buzzing by bees during flower pollination is significantly more ...

A University of Massachusetts Lowell researcher who specializes in building micro-robots is using his skills to help uncover how bees pollinate through buzzing. Noah Jafferis and a research colleague ...

Can you grow more fruits and nuts without bees? For several years, researchers have been trying to perfect the art of artificial pollination, providing an alternative to bees. Washington State ...

A hearty welcome to spring, which officially begins at 5:58 p.m. on Wednesday, the vernal equinox. As if to greet the season, a familiar sound is revving up now: bee buzzing. Most of us probably take ...

When bumblebee populations decline or disappear, the plants that rely on them often decline as well. Photo by Twan Leenders Across meadows, forests, and backyards, the familiar buzz of bumblebees has ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 28, 2017) Bumblebees exposed to field-realistic levels of neonicotinoid insecticides have problems with “buzz pollination” that results in reduced pollen collection, ...

Pesticides significantly reduce the number of pollen grains a bumblebee is able to collect, a new study has found. Pesticides significantly reduce the number of pollen grains a bumblebee is able to ...

Phillip Fulmer is a legendary football coach and current Athletic Director at the University of Tennessee, but he is also a bee-keeper! On Thursday, May 3rd you can hear coach Fulmer talk about bees, ...