The accusations you may have heard about nonnative honey bees aren’t backed by evidence. Entomologists explain that there are plenty of ways bees make the world a better place.

When you look up at a clear summer sky, it might seem empty. In reality, it is a bustling, invisible highway. Every day, ...

Bee-loud news buzzed from Moscow last week. Soviet scientists reported that they had found a way to make bees produce honey heavy with vitamins or with such medicines as quinine, sulfidin. The ...

For humans, humidity often makes us cranky, sweaty, and downright uncomfortable. For sweat bees, humidity changes their ...

North American sweat bees change color depending on the surrounding humidity. It might be a more widespread phenomenon among ...

He loves me, he loves me not... (Zen Rial/Moment/Getty Images) There's been a lot of buzz in recent years about bee cognition ...

Honey bees are dying at alarming rates across the United States. Beekeepers in the United States lost more than 55 percent of managed colonies last year. A new study supports a novel method for ...

A New York State cemetery may be home to nearly 5.6 million ground-nesting bees, according to a new study. The colony is one of the largest ever recorded and likely one of the oldest, the researchers ...

Upcoming research funded by the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) will investigate the secrets of longevity in honeybee queens. Queens eat royal jelly, which has antioxidants and less ...

Understanding bee distributions is essential to protecting these vital pollinators. Since conservation efforts and policies are often made at the state level, maintaining state-specific bee species ...