Researchers are letting honey bees do their fieldwork for them by applying metabarcoding technology to pollen DNA analysis. A new study shows that metabarcoding provides higher sensitivity and ...

To uncover what plants honey bees rely on, researchers from The Ohio State University are using the latest DNA sequencing technology and a supercomputer. They spent months collecting pollen from ...

Exactly what plants do honey bees visit on their daily forages for food in rural Madison County, Ohio? A research team led by Dr. Reed Johnson from The Ohio State University has found that the answer ...

The ability to identify individual plant species from tiny amounts of material has a surprising range of uses, from monitoring bee populations to assessing the contents of food and nutritional ...

The well-being of pollinators like bees have a direct impact on our lives. Vida van der Walt Pollinators are the unsung heroes of food production. Almost one third of the food eaten comes from animal ...

To uncover what plants honey bees rely on, researchers are applying DNA metabarcoding to pollen analysis. A new method uses three loci to characterize pollen samples collected by honey bees. This ...