The University of Minnesota Bee Lab reports commercial beekeepers lost an average of 62% of their colonies in the last year.

Tiny but mighty, honey bees play a crucial role in our ecosystems, pollinating various plants and crops. They also support ...

While American beekeepers search for solutions, another, potentially worse threat looms: Tropilaelaps mites, which also hail ...

Beekeepers across the state, the nation’s fifth-largest hub of honey production, worry about significant financial losses.

The way in which honey bees pollinate can also create problems for native plant ecosystems. That’s because honey bees often ...

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.

The problem: While honey bees are extremely important for agricultural activity — like growing food — they’re also pollen ...

Across the tops of parking garages and skyscrapers, in the heart of Houston, more than 750,000 bees thrive under the care of ...

Bees are essential to the health of the Earth’s ecosystems, but the populations of many species are dwindling. These ...

The molecular mechanisms driving honey bee fate have been revealed. Despite having identical genetic instructions, female honey bee larvae can develop into either long-lived reproductive queens or ...

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