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 ...

“This larger one is a female, and the smaller one is a male,” Paisley said as he held a box of small, brown mason bee eggs next to a nest at Willamette Valley Vineyards, south of Salem. “There’s a ...

With all of Tucson’s lovely desert blooms, you no doubt have noticed plenty of bees. If you want to have a garden with beautiful flowers (and who doesn’t?), you will also have bees and other ...

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

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 ...

“We found that larger bumble bee queens, typically more likely to survive winter and establish successful colonies, were paradoxically more vulnerable to pesticide exposure” A new study reveals ...

Sebastian Irazuzta received funding from McMaster University, The W. Garfield Weston Foundation, and NSERC. Noah Stegman received funding from McMaster University and NSERC. Susan A. Dudley receives ...

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 ...

Urban pavements can prove unlikely havens for wild bees and other insects, a survey on the streets of Berlin suggests. Sophie Lokatis at the Free University of Berlin and her colleagues explored ...

Recent calls to the Purdue Extension office have prompted me to re-visit a topic I have written about before: bees or wasps that form an elaborate nest and function as a colony. We call them “social” ...