Scientists are increasingly drawn to unmanaged colonies of this species, which use a variety of strategies to protect themselves when left to live on their own ...

This is not the plot of a new Game of Thrones spinoff, but a common and violent reality in honey bee colonies. As with any ...

You might think honeybees are thriving—after all, the honey industry is growing and its bees are well looked after by beekeepers. But not all honeybees live in hives. Across Europe, colonies still ...

Recently, the wild honeybees, Apis mellifera, found in Europe have been officially declared endangered for the first time.

A once-powerful monarch, weakened by illness, is overthrown by her previously loyal subjects. But in honey bee colonies, such ...

In this image from "Wild Honey Bees," worker bees in Germany load up with water that they'll use to cool their colony’s nest on a hot day. (Ingo Arndt Photography/Reprinted by permission of Princeton ...

SEBASTOPOL, Calif. — The staggering decline of honey bee colonies has alarmed experts across the United States, but an unconventional apiculturist in California thinks he has found a way to save them.

How does urban honeybee-keeping impact wild bee populations? This is what a recent study published in Peerj hopes to address as a team of researchers examined the adverse effects of urban ...

Wild bees, like bumblebees, mason bees and squash bees, are more essential to many agricultural crops in Pennsylvania than previously thought, according to new research. After surveying the impact of ...

Africanized honey bees, better known as killer bees, aren’t your garden-variety buzzers. They play a crucial role as pollinators in Arizona’s ecosystem, but these bees have a serious side: their ...