In mid-June 2018, Facebook removed a page pretending to be that of famed naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough. A post from this fake account spreading misinformation about bees had gone ...

Honey bee colonies around the world are at risk from a variety of threats, including pesticides, diseases, poor nutrition and habitat loss. Recent research suggests that one threat stands well above ...

Christian W. W. Pirk received funding from University of Pretoria and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. Honey bees are useful not only to humans but to other “free riders” attracted to ...

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If you've ever been on the internet, it's virtually impossible to avoid coming across some version of the ultra-cute advice suggesting you give a little spoonful of sugar water to bees who are tired.

The Varroa destructor, a parasitic mite that threatens populations of honey bees worldwide, has long been thought to feed on blood like many of its mite and tick cousins. Findings of new research, ...

The bee is one of nature’s most prolific pollinators. There are over 20,000 bee species, most of which spread pollen between flowers. Bees can be divided into groups based on their social behavior.

ORANGE GROVE, Texas — Michael Leidner is the owner and operator of South Texas Apiaries in Orange Grove, and has been keeping bees for ten years. Prior to February’s Big Freeze, Leidner has about 100 ...

As factors such as habitat loss decrease the number and variety of flowering plants in the environment, beekeepers are increasingly starting to augment their insects' diet with artificial feeds. It ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — If honeybees are busy pollinating large, blooming croplands, farmers wanting to spray toxic pesticides will soon have to buzz off, the Environmental Protection Agency is proposing. A ...

After an early October freeze, the flowers and plants that bees have relied on all summer for food are dead or dying and now the bees are on a "feeding frenzy." Pinky Reinsch wondered why there seemed ...

Among the many threats to honey bee colonies around the world, one stands alone: the parasitic mite, Varroa destructor. For decades, researchers assumed that varroa mites feed on blood, like many of ...