Insects are all around us—an ant on the sidewalk, a bee buzzing by, a butterfly floating on the breeze—and they shape the ...

Researchers grew Snodgrasella alvi, a beneficial member of the bee gut microbiome, in lab conditions and exposed it to black carbon air pollution. Snodgrassella alvi colonizes bees' large ...

A 2024 meta-analysis found that microplastics and nanoplastics could be identified in bee guts outside of control settings.

Out of the California cities that ranked the worst for ozone and particle pollution in 2025, the Fresno and Sacramento ...

A key component of bee health is their specialized, beneficial gut microbiome, which forms a community of bacteria in their gut to keep them healthy. The findings by air pollution researchers ...