There are roughly 100 million managed western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in hives worldwide, with about half in Europe, Africa and western Asia, where the species is native, and the rest in ...

Viruses spread from honey bees to wild bees through shared flowers, threatening pollination and plant communities.

FOREST GROVE, Ore. - Two homeowners realized they needed a bee expert instead of an arborist when they found a bee colony in the tree they planned to cut down on their Forest Grove property. In comes ...

We’ve departed from the glistening shores of Heron Island on the Great Barrier Reef and spent the last two weeks learning about terrestrial ecology since I last wrote. We went from snorkeling daily to ...

Beekeepers on Prince Edward Island are sharing concerns about the bee population, as the hives struggle through changing ...

A recent study shows that viruses in wild bees are closely linked to the flowers they visit and the availability of floral ...

Even in the face of vast fields of flowers, local bumblebees may face the sting of competition when people bring their honeybees to the floral feast. When beekeepers truck their hives to a ...

When ecologist Rachael Winfree first began studying bees 25 years ago, she happened upon a surprise: a species of plasterer bee in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, not seen in 50 years and suspected to ...