Common Pesticide Damages Honey Bee’s Ability to Fly

Study provides the first evidence that a broadly used pesticide alone can harm bee flight University of California - San Diego A honey bee (Apis mellifera) is harnessed for study on a flight mill in biology professor James Nieh's laboratory, UC San Diego. Credit: Simone Tosi Biologists at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated for the first time that a widely …

Honey Bees Have Sharper Eyesight Than We Thought

University of Adelaide Research conducted at the University of Adelaide has discovered that bees have much better vision than was previously known, offering new insights into the lives of honey bees, and new opportunities for translating this knowledge into fields such as robot vision. The findings come from "eye tests" given to western honey bees (also known as European honey bees, Apis …