More importantly, the honey bee does as much crop pollination as all other bees (around 20,000 species) combined. Bee hives are familiar. But who has seen a wild-living colony?

I don’t think there is another animal on the planet considered to be as beneficial to humanity as the honey bee (Apis mellifera). For our earliest hominid ancestors, to have come across a wild bee ...

An outbreak of the world's deadliest bee parasite, varroa destructor mite, has been found less than 5 kilometres from the ...