New research suggests city bees may benefit from diverse urban flora and reduced pesticide exposure in certain contexts — complicating the simple narrative that urban environments are uniformly harmful to bees.
European regulators have maintained restrictions on outdoor use of neonicotinoid insecticides, citing ongoing evidence linking the class of pesticides to impaired bee navigation and reproduction.
A taxonomic survey of museum specimens and field collections has identified 23 species new to science within the genus Andrena — the largest mining bee genus, with over 1,500 known species.
The Bee Informed Partnership's annual survey reports continued high colony loss rates among US commercial and hobbyist beekeepers, with Varroa mite management failures cited as the primary factor.
Research published in the journal Apidologie demonstrates that bumblebees can acquire novel, multi-step behaviors by observation — adding to a growing body of evidence for social learning in bees.
Following the 2022 court ruling that bumblebees qualify as "fish" under California's Endangered Species Act, four species have been formally listed for protection — the first bees listed under the California ESA.