The supplement is designed to mimic pollen - and can significantly enhance colony reproduction. WRIGHT: "When the bees have good nutrition, they should be able to at least do their best against these ...

An artificial “superfood” that provides essential nutrients for bees results in colonies producing much more larvae, suggesting it could help tackle the global decline in honeybees. Bees need to eat ...

Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, University of Greenwich, and the Technical University of Denmark could provide a cost-effective and ...

Honeybees keep the agricultural industry abuzz by pollinating crops in farms. But extreme weather and shifts in plants’ flowering periods have made pollen scarce, causing them to starve. “I think it ...

Lazy days of summer are tough on the bees as pollen and nectar are in very short supply. We have very little in bloom for the bees but sometimes supplemental feeding may be a necessity. Pollen ...

A recent study led by a UA graduate student is focusing on how a decrease in pollen availability is negatively affecting the gut microbes of honeybees. These microbes can either benefit or harm the ...

Researchers have developed a new, artificial supplement that can deliver crucial nutrients known as sterols to honeybee colonies and promote survival of larvae. Annice Lyn / Getty Images It’s not a ...

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – A nonprofit said they helped donate nearly 10 tankers of syrup and 40,000 pounds of bee pollen substitute to Florida beekeepers impacted by hurricanes Helene and Milton. According ...