The invasive insects have been spreading across the United States for over a decade, leaving behind poop that bees are transforming into a less sweet, sometimes savory, honey ...

Honey isn't vegan and many vegans take issue with the tactics that industrial farmers use to feed and subdue bees.

Recently, ominous headlines have described a mysterious ailment, colony collapse disorder(CCD), that is wiping out the honeybees that pollinate many crops. Without honeybees, the story goes, fields ...

The following is an excerpt from The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild by Thomas D. Seeley. The honey bee’s process of choosing a dwelling place unfolds during colony ...

Honey bees, Apis mellifera (A. mellifera), have become synonymous with pollination. Yet, they are not native to North America. European colonists introduced them and are now managed at industrial ...

In short: The Asian honey bee naturalised in north Queensland from a single swarm, 17 years later there's tens of thousands of colonies. Researchers say this population boom from such low genetic ...

There are seven species of Apis honey bee in the world, all of them native to Asia, Europe, and Africa. Apis mellifera, the western honey bee, is the species recognized globally as “the honey bee.” ...

Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’ ...

The varroa mite may be tiny — only a millimetre or two long — but it poses a huge threat to honey bees, beekeepers and honey ...