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 ...

Bees play a crucial role in pollinating plants, but soaring temperatures can put them under stress. Here’s how to make your backyard a cooling bee-friendly oasis. A bee lands on an orange cosmo flower ...

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 ...

It all began in the spring of 2022, when Rachel Fordyce, then a laboratory technician in Cornell University's entomology department, noticed an anomalous presence of insects during her usual walk to ...

The soft ground of the dead in upstate New York is buzzing with swarms of the living—the largest group of ground-nesting bees ever recorded worldwide. “It’s a massive aggregation of bee nests,” says ...

Honey bees don’t just perform their famous waggle dance to share directions, they actually adjust how well they dance depending on who’s watching. Researchers found that when fewer bees pay attention, ...

The Great Lakes Bee Company in Fremont has announced the availability of honeybees for backyard beekeepers to help keep a healthy supply of pollinators for the year. GLBC has partnered with Olivarez ...

Among scientific apiarists. Austrian-born Dr. Karl von Frisch of the University of Munich is widely icgarded as the know-all of the bee-alls. More than 20 years ago. Von Frisch discovered that bees ...

A team from the University of Freiburg led by neurobiologist and behavioral biologist Prof. Dr. Andrew Straw studied the flight behavior of honey bees. Using a drone, the researchers tracked honey ...

WSU scientists are fighting to save honey bees from multiple threats. The news was disturbing. Scientists at Washington State University observed that up to 70% of commercial honey bee colonies died ...