Funding round led by Insight Partners; investors include subsidiary of UAE sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company

Beewise says round-the-clock monitoring, care for honeybees will make world of difference in protecting pollinators, global food supply and agriculture

Nataniel Sagi learned that local benign species were on the verge of extinction; he's opened a conservation sanctuary and rescues colonies from deforestation

Little known about Lasioglossum dorchini, found in Alexander Stream National Park during research into best ways of rehabilitating habitats stunted by planted eucalyptus trees

Residents of Jordan Valley home were unaware of find, but vigilant neighbors called apiary owner who made discovery and moved hive containing 35 pounds of honey

90% of world’s wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, or at least partly, on animal pollination, along with over 75% of world’s food crops, 35% of agricultural land

Residents claim beekeeper was only trying to take hive with him when they accidentally got loose, but security forces say it was hurled at them

Entomologist May Berenbaum says mosquito is in fact the scariest insect, which WHO says causes millions of yearly deaths worldwide from malaria, dengue fever and other diseases

Scientists want Americans to learn to recognize the 2-inch-long insect, warning that it could 'forever change' the ecology; up to 50 people a year die in Japan from its sting

Israeli entrepreneur Eylam Ran says shortage of honeybees could plunge agriculture into major crisis, aims to market invention by 2023