A technology that would enable beekeepers to detoxify hives of pesticides was developed at Cornell University and is now being licensed through a new company called Beemmunity. “Beekeepers can feed ...

Bees play a critical role in pollinating many of plants that humans eat and are therefore key to food security, but populations continue to decline rapidly around the world. A number of factors are ...

Using a pollen-sized microparticle that contained a certain enzyme, a group of scientists was able to create an “antidote” to organophosphate-based insecticides, according to a Cornell University ...

You may not like bees, but you don’t want to imagine a world without them. Although bee populations began to decline as early as the mid-20th century, scientists did not become alarmed about the ...

Fifteen years after beekeepers first started reporting mass die-offs of bees, it’s still common for an average beekeeper to lose around a third of a hive each year. Wild bees have it even worse, and ...

(Nanowerk News) A Cornell University-developed technology provides beekeepers, consumers and farmers with an antidote for deadly pesticides, which kill wild bees and cause beekeepers to lose around a ...

New technology provides beekeepers, consumers and farmers with an antidote for deadly pesticides, which kill wild bees and cause beekeepers to lose around a third of their hives every year on average.