A baby bumble bee can end up on one of two very different paths. It can grow into a small worker that never reproduces, or ...

A child’s simple curiosity about why some bees live in different-looking cells has helped crack open a layer of honey bee biology that scientists had overlooked for decades. Researchers at the ...

It is fascinating how many great stories you can learn about beekeeping. It would be a time to educate and inspire every day ...

For many years, scientists believed that becoming a queen honeybee was mainly a matter of diet. The idea was simple: feed a young larva large amounts of royal jelly, and it would develop into a queen ...

The famous work ethic of honey bees might spell disaster for these busy crop pollinators as the climate warms, new research indicates. Flying shortens the lives of bees, and worker honey bees will fly ...

The apiculture industry in Canada continues to expand with increasing demand for hive products and pollination services. In 2022, Alberta had over 300,500 honey bee colonies, representing 39% of honey ...

Over the last quarter century, increasing honey bee colony losses motivated standardized large-scale surveys of managed honey bees (Apis mellifera), particularly in Europe and the United States. Here ...

There are roughly 100 million managed western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in hives worldwide, with about half in Europe, Africa and western Asia, where the species is native, and the rest in ...

An invasive Asian honeybee colony in northern Australia has defied expectations, displaying emergent genetic variation in a short period of time. While bad news for biosecurity agencies, it could be a ...

Mitzvah Garden KC in the Kansas City area lost most of its honeybee colonies this year. Beekeeper Robert Burns suspects it's due to pesticide exposure and recent dry weather that impacted the bees' ...