In recent months, beekeepers across the country have reported a widespread loss of bee hives and colonies around the world.

Australia’s native bees are key to pollination and ecosystem balance. Some outperform honey bees in certain roles.

The discovery of a small hive beetle in a beehive in the north-west of Tasmania has rocked the state's honey bee industry. The small hive beetle has been found in a beehive at Devonport Port with ...

Hobbyists and small scale beekeepers can help the environment by tending a hive or two ... The jelly super-sizes the little bee and turns her into an egg-laying machine, able to lay up to 3,000 ...

Bees choreograph their twists and turns with cues about the direction, distance and even the deliciousness of flowers around the hive ... Bees may have small brains, but they work together ...

"It's a very sweet deal," Cindy Balestrieri said. Herding a hive is done by finding the queen bee and moving her to what beekeepers call a "super" — a box placed on a hive where bees store honey.