The late-summer bloom of heather in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland coats the range in lovely purple flowers. Beekeepers ...

Resource overlap between wild bees and honeybees on Giannutri Island. Credit: Current Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.02.048 Researchers from the University of Florence and University of Pisa ...

Africanized honey bees, better known as killer bees, aren’t your garden-variety buzzers. They play a crucial role as pollinators in Arizona’s ecosystem, but these bees have a serious side: their ...

When ecologist Rachael Winfree first began studying bees 25 years ago, she happened upon a surprise: a species of plasterer bee in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, not seen in 50 years and suspected to ...

The cost of treating varroa mite in the beekeeping industry is flowing onto other food growers reliant on pollination.

In this image from "Wild Honey Bees," worker bees in Germany load up with water that they'll use to cool their colony’s nest on a hot day. (Ingo Arndt Photography/Reprinted by permission of Princeton ...

How does urban honeybee-keeping impact wild bee populations? This is what a recent study published in Peerj hopes to address as a team of researchers examined the adverse effects of urban ...

New technology is being used to save one of Scotland’s best loved and most important creatures. Just last week the wild honey bee was classified as endangered for the first time. Now a Scots charity ...

SAN MARCOS — When Charlie Agar pried open the lid of an abandoned piece of farm machinery in San Marcos recently, he found a sweet treasure inside. Glistening honeycombs lined most of the rectangular ...