A surprisingly large number and diversity of bee species – 74 out of 96 tested – have magnetic properties, according to ...

Honeybees do not like cold weather. When temperatures dip, they can become sluggish and unable to fly. But no matter the ...

Millions of honeybees escaped into a rural Texas neighborhood after a semitrailer carrying about 400 hives tipped over, officials said. Emergency officials in Orange County, Texas, shut down roads in ...

A beehive operates more like a democracy than a monarchy. In fact, US bee researcher Thomas D. Seeley describes a colony’s social structure as a ‘bee democracy’, where many decisions are made ...

Honey bee larvae lack the sophisticated olfactory capabilities of adult honey bees, a new study finds. Scientists point to ...

Bees may be more nutritionally selective than scientists realized, adjusting how much they eat when pollen contains an ...

A new study by University of Maryland entomologists shows that the lifespan for individual honey bees kept in a controlled, laboratory environment is 50% shorter than it was in the 1970s. When ...