(Natural News) Scientists in the state of Washington identified a new murder hornet (Vespa mandarinia) found in Snohomish Country. A Marysville resident found the dead insect and reported it to the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) on June 4, which identified it as a male. The discovery came more than six months after the […]

(Natural News) Widely used weedkillers in the United States contain toxic, undisclosed inert ingredients that are lethal to bees, according to a study published early this month in the Journal of Applied Ecology. Researchers from the Royal Holloway, University of London reviewed several herbicides and found that most of them contained glyphosate, an ingredient best recognized from […]

(Natural News) From spring through summer, both bumblebees and honeybees can be observed visiting the same flowers. Yet interestingly enough, these two bee species do not compete with each other for resources. And scientists know why. In a study published early this month, researchers at the Laboratory of Apiculture and Social Insects (LASI) at England’s University of […]

(Natural News) Common insecticides believed to threaten the health and survival of honeybees can be easily detected in honey, thanks to a novel technique developed by scientists from the University of Waterloo in Canada. The fully automated technique, called the solid-phase microextraction (SPME) method, helps scientists extract pyrethroids from honey, which has been previously difficult to do. Pyrethroid insecticides are believed to […]

(Natural News) Two pesticides widely used by farmers in the U.S. are harmful for bees and other useful insects, according to a pair of researchers from the University of Texas at Austin. Their findings revealed that the pesticides sulfoxaflor and flupyradifurone have harmful effects similar to those of neonicotinoids, a class of pesticides notorious for causing bee deaths. Moreover, […]

(Natural News) Researchers have determined that the nation’s farmland is now 48 times more toxic to insects than it was just 25 years ago, and much of this rise in toxicity is being blamed on the widespread use of a dangerous category of pesticides known as neonicotinoids. The study, which was published in the PLOS […]

(Natural News) In case you had any doubt how dramatically pesticides are harming our environment, one recent study found that pesticides have made agriculture a remarkable 48 times more toxic to insects over the past quarter century. This incredible decline in such a relatively low amount of time is due in no small part to […]

(Natural News) Breathing in toxic fumes from polluted air is one of the major contributors to premature death around the globe as it can exacerbate lung and heart conditions. But despite the emerging threat of air pollution to humans, little research has been done on its impact on the health of animals. In one of […]

(Natural News) One unexpected development due to the global coronavirus pandemic is its positive effects on the world’s bee populations. Almost every facet of the global economy is at a standstill and large portions of the global population are being forced to stay indoors. This has led to less air pollution, less car traffic and a marked […]

(Natural News) The paper wasp has become the first invertebrate animal that proves capable of transitive inference – the same form of logical reasoning that humans and other, more complex animals use for deduction. Transitive inference leverages known links to reason out unknown relationships. An animal capable of such logic knows that if A is […]