The Scripps National Spelling Bee, staged this week in Maryland, is a prestigious annual competition with a rich history and ...

Carpenter bees can carve tunnels in wood with their jaws. Discover how they live, build, and help our ecosystems.

Previous winners say the spelling bee has become much more competitive and credit television with making it a cultural ...

Previous winners say the spelling bee has become much more competitive and credit television with making it a cultural ...

Watching Faizan’s victory was Bruhat Soma, his friend who beat him in last year’s bee when a lightning round was deployed to ...

One local beekeeper says he has seen fewer bees this year as his swarm traps bring in fewer striped pollinators. Bee decline has an impact on food production, which can affect prices.

In 2018, the United Nations officially started World Bee Day. They chose May 20 because it’s the birthday of Anton Janša. He ...

Intensive farming practices, land-use change, mono-cropping, pesticides and higher temperatures associated with climate change all pose problems for bee populations and, by extension, the quality ...

Hector Amezcua Sacramento Bee file Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to expand ... a pill that can be used to end pregnancies that has been approved for use in the United States since 2000.

A car battery was also found near food equipment. This wasn’t the first ... This can include having enough bleach or sanitizer in the water used to wipe down food-preparation areas, replenishing ...

“I use beekeeping and the creation of native pollinator habitat ... performs the intricate process – using tools to scrape off beeswax cappings from the honey cells, placing it all in an old-fashioned ...