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 ...

While testing how well commercial bumblebees pollinate early spring crops, researchers made a surprising discovery: dead wild bumblebee queens in the hives, an average of 10 per nest box. While ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – While testing how well commercial bumblebees pollinate early spring crops, Cornell University researchers made a surprising discovery: dead wild bumblebee queens in the hives, an ...

When we picture beekeeping, most of us imagine jars of golden honey, gentle buzzes in summer gardens, and helpful pollinators doing their thing. However, behind the feel-good image of honeybees lies a ...

Beekeepers on Prince Edward Island are sharing concerns about the bee population, as the hives struggle through changing weather conditions.

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 ...

FOREST GROVE, Ore. - Two homeowners realized they needed a bee expert instead of an arborist when they found a bee colony in the tree they planned to cut down on their Forest Grove property. In comes ...

A study has found a "considerable richness" of wild bee species in most types of urban habitats. French researchers recorded almost a third of the nation's 900 species of wild bees living in towns and ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Many farmers rent bee hives to pollinate crops, but they could tap into the free labor of wild bees by adopting an as-needed approach to pesticides, a new proof-of-concept study ...

It was all about the bees last week for two Park Slope residents who set up a hive on the roof of a Brooklyn brownstone, home to about 12,000 fuzzy pollinators. Early Friday morning, the beekeepers — ...