Pull up a seat, settle down next to a sunflower and start counting bees as part of The Great Sunflower Project. You'll be part of a corps of volunteers who are providing information about the ...

Bees need all the help they can get. Thus programmer Mat Kelsey created a bee counter to see just how many of his winged honeymakers are hanging out in his hives. His system, which uses a Raspberry Pi ...

Even if keeping bees sounds about as wise to you as keeping velociraptors (we all know how that movie went), we have to acknowledge that they are a worthwhile thing to have around. We don’t personally ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about mathematics. The miniature brain counted small quantities of items by following a step-by-step process: It closely ...

Bumble Bee Watch is on. A collaborative effort of nonprofits and scientists around the county, the volunteer citizen science survey aims to track and conserve North America’s bumble bees. A bumble bee ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A Group of Scientists in Missouri are asking for helping in counting the bumblebee population in the state. The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is sending ...

A new experiment in which bees were trained to associate symbols with numbers suggests we can communicate with insects in ways not thought possible. An Australian-French collaboration is claiming to ...

Dec. 21 (UPI) --New research reveals how bees count using minimal brain power. To better understand bees' mathematic abilities, scientists designed a simple brain model on the computer, featuring just ...

Bees are pretty good at math — as far as insects go, at least. We already know, for example, that they can count up to four and even understand the concept of zero. But in a new study, published ...

Bees can solve seemingly clever counting tasks with very small numbers of nerve cells in their brains, according to researchers at Queen Mary University of London. In order to understand how bees ...

The decline of bee populations is a looming crisis, but there is a dearth of scientific data. Hyperlocal researchers, with nets and notebooks, could be key. Max McCarthy, an ecologist and Ph.D.