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

Bumblebee queens don t work nonstop. UC Riverside scientists discovered that queens take strategic reproductive breaks early ...

The honey bee Apis mellifera is a plant-pollinator that produces commercial products. It has female castes with workers performing tasks in the colonies and a queen, it has the longest lifespan, in ...

Honey production in Brazil grew by 97.3 % and propolis ... taking 50 days to evaluate the productive and behavioural characteristics of the descending worker bees. To evaluate propolis production, ...

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

The Asian honey bee, Apis cerana, is the third smallest of the nine species of honey bee and is generally smaller than the European honey bee. The Asian honey bee has a native range throughout Asia.

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 ...

This weekend, buzz over to the 2nd Annual Athens Honey Bee Festival for some free fun and a peek inside the world of bees. The festival will be held Saturday, May 24 from 10 a.m.–2 p.m. at the ...

An international research project led by Irish scientists has been launched to investigate the wild honey bee. The wild honey bee was once thought to be extinct, however recent research has found ...

The governor is hoping to save $767 million by freezing state workers’ salaries as a means to help shore up California’s projected $12 billion deficit. But if that doesn’t happen by July 1 ...

On 'World Bee Day,' the Bees Did Not Seem Bothered. They Should Be COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — On the eighth annual “World Bee Day,” the bees did not seem bothered. They should be. Bees and ...