Last week, we celebrated St. Valentines day. St. Valentine is widely recognized as the patron saint of beekeepers but ...

To stay in the air when hovering over a flower, bumble bees continually flap their wings rapidly, a metabolic process that ...

Migratory beekeepers in India’s Assam state travel from mustard farm to mustard farm timing their visits for when the flowers bloom. It's been done for decades in India, but is relatively new ...

In a beehive, the queen bee is the center of the colony. She is the only female bee that lays eggs. The worker bees dedicate ...

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5)-- Audra Waddle went from designing pools to re-homing feral bees. Now her business, AZ Queen Bee, has a full line of food products and healing salves, all made from local Arizona ...

During spring, when queen bumblebees first emerge from hibernation to start their nests, they work incredibly hard foraging for nectar to fuel their new colonies. But then, as soon as their first ...

These bee cells tell us about the environment and ecosystem in which they lived,” said Stephen Hasiotis, a geology professor at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, whose research focuses on ...

Contrary to popular depictions of bee nests as large, intricate hives that hang from trees, the majority of bee species — about 90% — are actually solitary and build their nests in the ground or ...

Worker bees stage coordinated revolts when viral infections weaken their queen and lower her pheromone output. This disruption drives many of the queen failures that beekeepers struggle with today.

Adam Feuerstein, a senior writer and biotech columnist, is the author of Adam’s Biotech Scorecard, a subscriber-only newsletter about the crossroads of drug development, business, Wall Street, and ...

PHOENIX — A swarm of bees stung four students at a school in Queen Creek on Monday, according to authorities. Firefighters responded to Queen Creek Junior High School, near Ellsworth Loop and ...

QUEEN CREEK, AZ — Four students were treated for bee stings at Queen Creek Junior High School on Monday. Queen Creek Fire and Medical responded to the school for reports of students stung by bees.