In the face of colony collapse, some beekeepers are foregoing insecticides and opting instead to breed bees with ...

A drive east from Riverhead and a ferry trip to Shelter Island and back and then on to Orient at this time of year passes fields bathed in a sea of bright blooms. Flitting from flower to flower, too ...

Scientifically known as the Apis cerana, these bees are native to regions of eastern and southern Asia as well as parts of Russia. Worker bees have black bodies with four pronounced yellow stripes ...

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 ...

Once placed inside, the worker bees will eat through the plug — a process ... However, according to a nationwide survey by Project Apis — a nonprofit that supports beekeeping science — honey bees are ...

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 ...

commercial beekeepers in Texas have lost about two thirds of their bee colonies on average, according to a survey published last month that was administered by Project Apis m., a honey bee ...

“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 ...

Varroa wreaks havoc by latching onto adult European honey bees (Apis mellifera ... which affects varroa mite reproduction worker bees, tending to the bee nursery, are better at sniffing out ...