Honey bees aren’t the only pollinators—and most bees don’t sting! Learn the truth behind five common myths in honor of ...

A research consortium, supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), have announced the publication of a high-quality draft genome ...

Honey bees are incredibly social insects. They live together in big groups with other bees in an organized society that ...

Researchers have proposed a new model for the evolution of higher brain functions and behaviors in the Hymenoptera order of insects. The team compared the Kenyon cells, a type of neuronal cell, in the ...

As a beekeeper for 24 years, as well as a Forbes columnist since 1983 and a long-time economic forecaster, I believe Steve Forbes’ comments on honey bees in his May 6 column, Fanning Unfounded Fears ...

University of Arizona researchers write that perhaps all the feral honeybees in Arizona are Africanized. The National Park ...

Sprinkled with pollen, buzzing bees fly from one blossom to another, collecting sweet nectar from brilliantly colored flowers. Bees tend to symbolize the pollination process, but there are many wild ...

New Jersey's state insect, the honey bee, is neither a native of the state nor the continent. The European honey bee was introduced into the United States back in the early 1600s and has since became ...

The University of Minnesota Bee Lab provides free beekeeping education for Minnesota veterans through its Bee Veterans ...