Honeybees are outcompeting wild pollinators in the U.K., and new research has found evidence of their aggressive behavior, ...

Open a honey bee hive on a warm afternoon and the first thing you’ll notice is movement. Thousands of bees stream across the frames, tending brood, processing nectar and pollen, building wax, and ...

When bumble bees fight invasive Argentine ants for food, bees may win an individual skirmish but end up with less to feed the hive. Bumble bees are already under pressure from habitat loss, disease, ...

New research has revealed that high densities of European honey bees could be harming Australian native bees' 'fitness' by reducing their reproductive success and altering key traits linked to ...

Around the world, honeybees are dying in large numbers. This die-off is in part because of a deadly virus that can kill bees or impair their ability to return to the hives after foraging. But in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. AUBURN, Al. (WRBL) — Essential to plant and human life, bees play a key role in pollinating the food we eat, but they are facing a ...

Scientists have developed a new "vaccine" that can help bumblebees survive lethal doses of one class of pesticides. Neonicotinoids, which have been outlawed in the European Union but are still legal ...

Resistance to synthetic antibiotics poses a critical global health challenge. Various European honeybee and other natural products have been proposed as novel therapeutic agents to address this ...

The honeybee is perhaps the lynchpin to planet earth’s entire ecosystem, but their existence is very much threatened. In this ...