Stingless bee colonies are often small, but some are as large as the biggest honey bee hives. These bees’ social structures ...

Typically, foragers continue to search around for some last drops of nectar before winter, but if a ravenous colony is desperate enough, it may resolve to a more dire tactic—to storm a foreign beehive ...

Almost as soon as the honeybee colony was installed ... Tautz likens the structure to a sleeping bag, but one in which the fabric’s weave—made of interlocked bees—can be loosened or ...

During recent inspections by field scientists, deceased colonies often died with ample honey stores, leaving only small patches of the eggs, larvae and pupae, with most or all of the adult bees ...

A colony of bees has created an intricate nest inside an irrigation box, surrounded by lush greenery and citrus trees. Bees nesting inside ...

Bees do not create honey; they are actually improving upon a plant product, nectar. The honey we eat is nectar that bees have repeatedly regurgitated and dehydrated. The average American consumes ...

"We talk a lot about honey bee colony losses in terms of novel diseases and emerging threats, but this is actually something that's been under our nose the whole time." The researchers used the ...