by Ramesh Karki | Jan 6, 2026 | World Bee Journal
8 JANUARY 2026 Climate change is playing an increasingly important role in the decline of biodiversity. It is causing the loss of local species, increasing diseases, and driving mass mortality of plants and animals, including pollinators. The consequences of climate...
by Ramesh Karki | Dec 29, 2025 | World Bee Journal
Scientists already know that bees can do simple addition and subtraction, but a team in Australia came up with a new experiment to test a bee’s ability to follow mathematical sequences. They put a jar of concentrated sugar syrup 100 meters from a hive, and then each...
by Ramesh Karki | Dec 7, 2025 | World Bee Journal
4 DECEMBER 2025 In the 2000s, beekeepers with managed hives reported alarming losses in their hives and these incidents led to widespread concern that all honeybees were in decline. Scientists have since worked hard to reduce colony mortality, studying domesticated,...
by Ramesh Karki | Dec 1, 2025 | World Bee Journal
Scientists know that bees experience basic emotions like joy and fear, but what about more complex feelings like anxiety or depression? A group of scientists decided to try to find out. First they trained bees to understand the difference between 2 smells. With the...
by Ramesh Karki | Nov 7, 2025 | World Bee Journal
6 NOVEMBER 2025 Recent research finds that farms and natural ecosystems suffer when managed honeybees outcompete wild bees for nectar, pollen, and nesting spots. Honeybees are vital pollinators for agriculture — but they’re only one piece of the puzzle. Across the...
by Ramesh Karki | Oct 29, 2025 | World Bee Journal
Bee-eaters are brightly coloured birds usually found in Africa and Asia, as well as some parts of Southern Europe and Australia. But as the planet heats up, we may start to see warm-weather birds like bee-eaters appearing in more northerly countries like the UK. It...
