Tag: bumblebees

  • Nation & World

    Bees on the brink

    Using an innovative robotic platform to observe bees’ behavior, Harvard researchers showed that, following exposure to a commonly used class of pesticides, bees spent less time nursing larvae and were less social than other bees.

    7 minutes
    Bees in hive
  • Nation & World

    Making use of the head

    Blue-banded bees bent on pollination bang their heads against tomato plants at a rate of 350 times per second, a Harvard researcher found.

    4 minutes