Dr. Elizabeth Murray holds a bee while showing a new QR code tagging system WSU is using in their collection on Monday, Aug. 5, 2024, at The M.T. James Entomological Collection in Pullman, Wash. The ...

Insect populations are declining. There are seven species of bumble bee in Rhode Island, but there used to be twelve. Researchers are tracking local bee populations to educate the community and create ...

LOGAN, UTAH, June 22, 2022—The USDA Agricultural Research Service is leading a project dubbed “Beenome100” to produce high-quality maps of the genomes of at least 100 bee species, capturing the ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. — To the pedestrian, the Severin-McDaniel Insect Research Collection is just a big room full of cabinets with drawers, filled with dead bugs. But to Paul J. Johnson, the century-old ...

The small collection of dry-mounted caterpillars held in The Albert J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection at Michigan State University would have emerged as butterflies decades before the first ...

Bees have long been celebrated for their intricate hives and precise navigation, but new research suggests their inner lives are even more sophisticated than many scientists assumed. In carefully ...

Insects are a vital part of the ecosystem, pollinating plants, decomposing waste, and serving as a food source for other animals. While some insect populations, like monarch butterflies, are ...

In a Caribbean cave where owls once spat out the bones of their prey, scientists have uncovered a nesting strategy that ...

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American foulbrood disease can reduce thousands of buzzing bees to a rancid brown goo within weeks. The disease has no cure, and in some areas, it can infect one in four hives, threatening the work of ...