A multi-institutional team of researchers led by Virginia Tech's Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC has for the first time identified specific patterns of brain chemical activity that predict ...

As master foragers, honeybees are adept at quickly forming connections between odors and rewards—when blasted with a scent and given a sugary treat, they’ll mentally link the two. They also send a ...

A large-scale study has drawn together the findings of a decade of agrochemical research to confirm that pesticides used in crop protection have a significant negative impact on the learning and ...

As part of its commitment to using data and analytics to solve the world's most pressing problems, SAS' recent work includes helping to save the world's No. 1 food crop pollinator – the honey bee.

Social learning plays an important role in a honey bee’s ability to “waggle dance,” report researchers, who observed that honey bees not exposed to the dances of older, more experienced nestmates ...

Honeybees are among the smartest animals in the world, even with all the caveats that go with trying to measure animal intelligence. They have a symbolic language system for communicating the location ...