While testing how well commercial bumblebees pollinate early spring crops, researchers made a surprising discovery: dead wild bumblebee queens in the hives, an average of 10 per nest box. While ...

When we picture beekeeping, most of us imagine jars of golden honey, gentle buzzes in summer gardens, and helpful pollinators doing their thing. However, behind the feel-good image of honeybees lies a ...

Over the past several decades the lives of the domesticated and native pollinators have increasingly overlapped Jude Isabella, bioGraphic Bumblebees are lovable, adorable and admirably occupied. They ...

When ecologist Rachael Winfree first began studying bees 25 years ago, she happened upon a surprise: a species of plasterer bee in the New Jersey Pine Barrens, not seen in 50 years and suspected to ...

Sweat covers Isaac Barnes's face under his beekeeper's veil as he hauls boxes of honeycomb from his hives to his truck. It's a workout in what feels like a sauna as the late-morning June temperatures ...

Regardless, insect pollination remains essential for pollen movement and achieving economically viable yields of fruits with ...

How does urban honeybee-keeping impact wild bee populations? This is what a recent study published in Peerj hopes to address as a team of researchers examined the adverse effects of urban ...

LYNDEN, Wash. — After an estimated 15 million bees were unleashed by an overturned delivery truck in Whatcom County, cleanup crews have concluded their work and previously closed roads have reopened, ...

LYNDEN, Wash. — After an estimated 15 million bees were unleashed by an overturned delivery truck in Whatcom County, cleanup crews have concluded their work and previously closed roads have reopened, ...