There are nearly 4,000 native bee species in the United States, contributing to pollination in agricultural, urban and natural landscapes. Honey bees, however, are not native to the U.S., which has ...

Honey bees get all the attention, while solitary bees do most of the work. Let's give solitary bees their day in the sun and ...

“Bees have this inherent ability to deal with stress, and so, if you give them a little bit of stress, like a low-level ...

At Indian Summer Honey Farm, bees are hard at work, and so are the farmers who care for them. This year, weather played a key ...

Bees kept in Hull's industrial heartland have produced a bumper honey harvest. Rooted in Hull, a not-for-profit community group which sees volunteers grow fruit and vegetables on the banks of the ...

“Marsha Knight … claims that those honey bees or other honey bees have been in that wall void ever since she was a young girl,” said Andrew MacDonald, owner of Bee Huggah, the company that ...

This is an unusually sweet story from Milwaukee's former Northridge Mall. Two bee hives discovered before beginning the decrepit mall's demolition are being relocated to a southeastern Wisconsin ...

Honey bees may play a role in increasing virus levels in wild bumble bees each spring, according to researchers at Penn State who analyzed seasonal trends of parasite and virus transmission in bees.

Tiny radar chips are being fitted to bees to track their movements. A team at The University of Oxford have been investigating how to help declining insect and bird populations. The new Biotracks ...

Benji Jones is an environmental correspondent at Vox, covering biodiversity loss and climate change. Before joining Vox, he was a senior energy reporter at Business Insider. Benji previously ...

Each strike took just an instant, the predators snatching bees out of the air and then flying ... in his backyard in an attempt to steal its honey, especially toward the end of summer when flowers ...