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 ...

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." ...

Washington's pollinators are critical to our state’s agriculture and can sometimes be used to help degraded ecosystems.

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 ...