Not just food: Plant chemicals within nectar yield honey that packs a pharmaceutical punch and helps keep bees healthy. Ed Peeters / EyeEm via Getty Images It should come as no surprise that bees know ...

While some people argue that an overabundance of managed honey bees is causing native bees to disappear, the evidence doesn't support the claim, Penn State researchers write.

A Laurentian University researcher is set to start a two-year project using honey bees to help with remediation work at the ...

An unusually early bee swarm season in 2026 has researchers and Iowa beekeepers watching for impacts on pollination, honey ...

At first glance, the hexagonal cells build by honey bees and social wasps may seem similar, but they are significantly different. Honey bees build using wax, whereas wasps use paper. Honey bees build ...

In the 1970s, laboratory honey bees generally lived for over a month. But now, according to new research published in Scientific Reports, lab-kept bees only live about two weeks. The halving of the ...