Feb. 4 (UPI) --Scientists with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say a new breed of tiny flying robots that weigh ...

Canadian scientists are set to breed honeybees to make them resistant to disease and harsh winter conditions with a $7.3 million budget. The move is poised to bring economic benefits to the country, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal wildlife officials on Thursday made a formal recommendation to list the rusty patched bumble bee as an endangered species because it has disappeared from about 90 percent ...

After losing as many as a third of their bees in the past two years, Marin County’s beekeepers are taking radical steps – including breeding a better bee – to save their remaining hives from ...

Some call them nuisances. Problematic pests with a proclivity to inflict pain. They are black, and yellow, and buzz to a tune that most of us relentlessly swat and run from. Dan Lewis is among the few ...

Having wild bees as pets might sound a little off the wall, but such is the case for Tom Strobi and Claudio Sedivy. The two biologists from Zurich are working with an environmental issue at heart: ...

You see Greg Denker on a Tucson street in a white bee suit, and you might think you’re looking at a guy who exterminates killer bees. You couldn’t be much further from the truth. Denker has made a ...

Honeybees have a gene that promotes cleanliness — like removing dead or sick bees from a colony — and breeding for that could be the key to preventing colony collapse disorder, a study from Genome ...