Jeff Koch, a biology teacher at Hazleton Area Academy of Sciences, starting keeping bees two years ago as a hobby because he is very interested in farming. At the time, he never considered that his ...

There are five social species of bumble bees (Bombus spp.) native to Florida, and each is an important pollinator throughout the state. Although European honeybees make up about 85 percent of our ...

For many years now, there has been a very strong movement to bring attention to the importance of pollinators in our ecosystem. From my view within the garden industry, this movement has created ...

As the blossoms bloom across Northern Michigan, amateur apiarists are getting ready for a fruitful season with their hardest workers, the bee. The Great Lakes Bee Company held their annual bee pick up ...

Curious where bees and wasps go in winter? Learn how these buzzing insects survive the cold months and what happens to hives and nests until spring.

The successful demonstration of remote-controlled “drones-bees” by Netherlands’ Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) has been making news since Tuesday. But the buzz surrounding the drone’s ...

Bees leave an electric trace on pollinated flowers, telling other bees the flower is tapped out. A study found fertilizers change that electric field and put bumblebees off from fertilizing. Bees are ...

Bees provide crucial pollination service to numerous crops and up to a third of the human diet comes from plants pollinated by insects. However, pollinating bees are suffering widespread declines in ...

A decade ago, bees of any kind were insecta non grata in most American gardens. Double that in swimming pool landscaping. But things have changed dramatically since then as we wake up to the dwindling ...

No food for the human race without bees? It is not quite as straightforward as that. A case study by ecologists in a coffee-growing area in India reveals that pollinating insects are just one ...

Beekeepers are still losing honey bees to colony collapse disorder, though the crisis isn't as bad as a few years ago. Scientists are looking at other kinds of bees to pollinate crops: wild ones. OK.