Contacts for media: Emily Gowdey-Backus, Emily_GowdeyBackus@uml.edu and Nancy Cicco, 978-934-4944, Nancy_Cicco@uml.edu LOWELL, Mass. – Aiming to better understand the pollination process, a UMass ...

A bumblebee lands on the flowers of a white sloe bush. Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty Images Stephen Buchmann, University of Arizona As trees and flowers blossom in spring, bees emerge from ...

A powerful new way to fill major gaps in public bee data -- including from Africa, Asia and other under-reported zones -- has been addressed with a centralized tool for consolidating bee pollinator ...

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 ...

Above: Bumble bees buzz pollinate crops like tomatoes when they collect pollen, which they store in a ball on their hind legs. It’s hard to deny the absolute benefits of the honey bee, but did you ...

Stressed bees are much more likely to make pessimistic choices and lack a buzz in life. Stressed bees are much more likely to make pessimistic choices and lack a buzz in life, new research has ...

There are five social species of bumble bees (Bombus spp.) native to Florida, and each is an important pollinator throughout the state. Although European honeybees make up about 85 percent of our ...

Bee-lieve it or not, bees are considered the most important pollinator in the world. Lucky for us, here in Colorado we have the fifth-most bee diversity in the United States. You can find 946 native ...

LOWELL, Mass. – Aiming to better understand the pollination process, a UMass Lowell scientist has simulated the buzz of a bee in a microrobot. UMass Lowell’s Noah Jafferis, assistant professor of ...