Bee Extinction News Today

While judges, lawyers and support staff at the federal courthouse in Concord, New Hampshire, keep the American justice system buzzing, thousands of humble honeybees on the building's roof are playing their part in a more important task: feeding the world

Royal jelly is a secretion honeybees make to feed future queen bees. Extracting it requires great precision and can be done only by hand.

Pesticides damage nervous systems of bees in a way that they cannot orient themselves properly after exposure. Scientists have found that the chemicals sulfoxaflor and imidacloprid, which are [...]