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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 ...

Honey bees may play a role in increasing virus levels in wild bumble bees each spring, according to researchers who analyzed seasonal trends of parasite and virus transmission in bees. Honey bees may ...

Several species of California bumble bees have gone missing in the first statewide census of the fuzzy pollinators in 40 years. If they can be found, a recent court ruling could help save them.

It was three in the afternoon and over 30 degrees C, yet despite the heat there was not a drop of sweat on my body. The air was so dry that any perspiration was sucked from my pores before I even felt ...

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” ...

Africanized honey bees, better known as killer bees, aren’t your garden-variety buzzers. They play a crucial role as pollinators in Arizona’s ecosystem, but these bees have a serious side: their ...