Bees and their pollination methods are integral to the ecosystem, as well as agriculture of all types. Unfortunately, bee colonies are struggling due to pesticide use and habitat destruction. And now ...

"The effects of poor nutrition are most damaging in the developing larvae of honey bees, who mature into workers unable to ... a specific microbe -- Bombella apis-- is the only larva-associated ...

Several thousand worker bees cooperate in nest building ... commercial beekeeper and board chairman of Project Apis m, in the release. “Honey bees are the backbone of our food system ...

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS) are helping American beekeepers ...

To make one pound of honey, workers in a hive ... colonists introduced Apis mellifera, the common honeybee, to the Americas. Native Americans referred to the bees as "White Man's Fly." ...

When beekeepers introduced honeybees to a protected island, wild bees nearly vanished. Could removing the hives reverse the ...

“But that depends on us.” An Asian giant honeybee (Apis dorsata) worker bee, one of four native honey bee species in Cambodia, where global threats like climate change are compounded by local ...

Swarming often happens when a honey bee colony outgrows its home, becomes too congested or too populated for pheromones to properly spread around the colony and tell worker bees what to do ...

However, honey bees, especially Apis mellifera, are their favorite targets ... resulting in a "carpeting" of workers at the entrance. This term refers to the clustering or accumulation of honey ...