A leading expert told the world’s biggest science conference the technology is now here to programme bee-sized drones to pollinate crops

RESEARCH involving the use of bee venom to treat breast cancer has landed a Willetton 23-year-old in the running for the WA Young Achiever Awards. Ciara Duffy is among four nominees for the awards living within the City of Canning. She is starting her third year of a PhD, supported by the Cancer Council WA, looking at the effects of honeybee venom as a potential treatment for aggressive breast cancer cells.

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As wild bee populations in the US collapse, with big implications for agriculture, new software might just save the day. Andrew Masterson reports.

Declines in wild bee populations in the US are putting at least $3 billion worth of crops at risk, a new study has shown – but help may be at hand in the form of an app.

Manuka honey made by bees foraging on Australian native plants has antibacterial properties at least as powerful as the famous New Zealand variety, according to new research, but New Zealand producers are trying to trademark the name.

Researchers have found the medicinal properties of Australian manuka honey are just as powerful as that produced in New Zealand.

When Professor Mandyam Srinivasan began studying bees 25 years ago, he had no idea where it would take him.
He was interested in learning how they landed so elegantly, and avoided colliding in mid-air.

Jiang's family has been keeping bees for 80 years and he now manages 500 hives in the northwest county of Hsinchu. In total his family run around 2,000 across northern Taiwan.

The belief that elephants are afraid of mice has been tested and seemingly proved by science television program Myth busters.