When the temperatures outside dipped, the honeybees grabbed hold of each other’s legs to form a living quilt along the ...

There’s widespread concern about the global decline of honey bees and the associated loss of pollination services. The honey bee is the most important single species for crop pollination. This is ...

New technology is being used to save one of Scotland’s best loved and most important creatures. Just last week the wild honey bee was classified as endangered for the first time. Now a Scots charity ...

NACOGDOCHES, TX (KTRE) - A giant beehive exposed to the elements is doing quite well hanging from a tree in Nacogdoches. Naturalists and bee experts are hoping it will stay that way. In the winter ...

It might be hard to think of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) as a forest creature. Most of us picture honey bees in the context of hives in wooden boxes, managed by beekeepers in heavy white jumpsuits.

In Nagaland’s Choklangan village, the Khiamniungan tribe’s honey hunters follow an age-old tradition of gathering honey with ...

Rebecca Ellis receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She is affiliated with the Pollinator Pathway Project, the London Urban Beekeepers' Collective and is the chair ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 14, 2021) In a prime example of cart-before-the-horse, greenwashing, or perhaps “beewashing,” a British company has badly missed the mark in its latest attempt to market a ...

In the overlooked corners of Puget Sound, wild bee populations are thriving in unexpected places, according to a ...

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

Recent calls to the Purdue Extension office have prompted me to re-visit a topic I have written about before: bees or wasps that form an elaborate nest and function as a colony. We call them “social” ...