There are roughly 100 million managed western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in hives worldwide, with about half in Europe, Africa and western Asia, where the species is native, and the rest in ...

Discover Emirati beekeeper Ali Salem Al Dhanhani's 40-year journey tracking wild bees in the UAE mountains, producing premium ...

A new report reveals that U.S. beekeepers lost roughly half of the honey bees they managed last year. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign entomology professor Adam Dolezal, who studies how ...

Populations of the Western honeybee (Apis mellifera) are under immense pressure in the wild in Europe. New research published in Conservation Science and Practice from the University of Hohenheim in ...

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 ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...

I don’t think there is another animal on the planet considered to be as beneficial to humanity as the honey bee (Apis mellifera). For our earliest hominid ancestors, to have come across a wild bee ...

David Beckham, the football icon who took up beekeeping during the Covid-19 lockdowns, now produces his own honey at his Cotswolds home, according to The Standard. His hobby comes as experts discuss ...

The queen becomes the mother of most of the bees in the hive. All the worker bees are female. Any drone lucky enough to mate ...

Africanized honey bees are a hybrid species that originated in Brazil and have spread to 13 southern and southwestern U.S. states. Known as "killer bees," their danger comes from their highly ...