When he made one of his weekly trips to check on them, he found all but one hive box completely smashed, frames filled with wax, honey and baby bees scattered throughout a field. Piles of dead bees ...

Honey bees aren’t the only pollinators—and most bees don’t sting! Learn the truth behind five common myths in honor of ...

When a beehive outgrows its home, the colony faces a critical decision: where to move next. Rather than relying on a single ...

A major reforestation effort, backed by the county government, empowers residents with beekeeping as a low-cost, high-value ...

State officials have made the first known detection in Alaska of the small hive beetle, an "economically significant" pest of honey bees, according to an alert published in late September. An Alaska ...

Beekeepers struggle with rising salinity and extreme heat Honey production in Basra expected to decline by 50% this season Water crisis worsened by upstream dams, raising salinity levels BASRA, Iraq, ...

Dark-colored honey collected from beehives on East Broad Street in Columbus pours into a bucket. Bees used honeydew, a sweet sticky substance secreted by spotted lanternflies, to create the ...

Chinese citizens are now living as long as Americans, reaching a milestone nearly two decades earlier than experts had forecast, according to official data. Life expectancy in China has risen sharply ...

People with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) frequently live well into adulthood. Advances in treatment have significantly increased the life expectancy for this condition. The median life expectancy ...

Several genetic variants associated with social behavior in honey bees are located within genes that have previously been linked to social behavior in humans, Ian Traniello at the University of ...

Celebrating its first fall semester, the University of Virginia’s Northern Virginia campus is buzzing with excitement – no one more so than beekeeper and Dean Greg Fairchild and the campus’s two ...

On a hot summer day in Colorado, European honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) buzz around a cluster of hives near Boulder Creek. Worker bees taking off in search of water, nectar and pollen mingle with bees ...