2025 has been a rough year for the honey bees and their keepers. Reports of extreme colony mortality began in January, just before the almond bloom which requires the pollination services of an ...

This repository implements several swarm optimization algorithms and visualizes them. Implemented algorithms: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Firefly Algorithm (FA), Cuckoo Search (CS), Ant Colony ...

I thought I was dealing with just an abandoned hive, but while investigating a rooftop, I found a thriving bee colony hidden right inside the wall! In this video, I show how I uncovered the bees and ...

In the field of multi-objective evolutionary optimization, prior studies have largely concentrated on the scalability of objective functions, with relatively less emphasis on the scalability of ...

Bee swarming is a natural process that occurs with some species of bees. Swarming allows bee colonies to spread out, preventing any single colony from becoming too large and struggling to survive. The ...

Worker bees feeding in the lab, Oxford Bee Lab. Credit: Caroline Wood Scientists have created a groundbreaking bee “superfood” by engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols normally found in ...

1 Science Engineer Laboratory for Energy, National School of Applied Sciences, Chouaib Doukkali University of El Jadida, El Jadida, Morocco 2 Information Technology Laboratory, National School of ...

I was called to safely relocate a healthy bee colony that had taken over a bird box in a beautiful garden. Instead of removing the entire structure, I carefully transferred the bees and their hive to ...