When people think of honey bees, they often think of classic wooden hives, in which beekeepers are having to breed more and more bees just to keep managed populations stable. These man-made boxes, ...

Samuel Ramsey, an assistant professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado Boulder, is renowned for his expertise and effervescent enthusiasm for everything related to bugs. He's made ...

Honey bee workers collect pollen and nectar from a variety of flowering plants to use as a food source. Honey bees typically forage from up to 1-2 miles away from the hive, though sometimes they ...

LAPEL — Managing invasive species is a key part of Matt and Libby Manning’s daily life. The couple, both of whom are church pastors, strive to create a safe habitat for honey bees, which they utilize ...

Move over, Queen Bey, these pollinators may have you bee-t. Honey bees have a signature “waggle dance” — and researchers have discovered how the insects learn it. A new study published in the journal ...

Bees are essential for pollinating many of our food crops and wild flowers, and a horticulturist says there is a specific ...

While known for their painful stings, bees are well protected against most predators due to their defence mechanism. However, ...

Harry has built his bee business from scratch and now sells to other beekeepers A 17-year-old beekeeper says he took up the ...

Millions of honeybees escaped into a rural Texas neighborhood after a semitrailer carrying about 400 hives tipped over, officials said. Emergency officials in Orange County, Texas, shut down roads in ...

When drought conditions hit, researchers say some flowering plants get stressed and can alter their smell, colour and nectar ...