The annual honey bee husbandry survey by the Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute finds about one-in-four colonies were lost ...

Honey bees are truly impressive insects, playing a major role in sustaining ecosystems. These remarkable insects build perfectly structured honeycombs. Honey bees are ectothermic and must regulate the ...

Honey bees are some of the most industrious insects on the planet. With pollination, responsible for various crop yields and floral reproduction, they sustain large portions of the food market. Some ...

Viewing honey bee colonies as superorganisms could reshape modern beekeeping, raising important questions about parasite management and practices that interfere with natural colony behavior. Credit: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Candles, lip balm, lotion, dog balm, and lemonade: These are some of the things that can be created from honey. The Iowa Honey ...

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, ...

It’s spring again ... time for bees to pollinate flowers. Although bee populations have leveled off during the past few years, we’re still at a nadir historically. In the 1940s, there were 6 million ...

Africanized honey bees are an invasive hybrid species that entered the United States through Texas in the 1990s. This continued a spread that began in Brazil in the 1950s, and has continued through ...

A new Frontiers in Insect Science editorial gathers six studies showing that parasitic mites, viruses, pesticides and climate ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Two years ago, the United Nations started World Bee Day to pay tribute ...

Global honey bee populations are in decline, putting the world’s food supply under pressure. But new technologies could help beekeepers counter the threat. You might think of beekeepers as mere honey ...