Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Africanized honey bees, better known as killer bees, aren’t your garden-variety buzzers. They play a crucial role as pollinators ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A British beekeeper said on Wednesday he may have discovered a strain of honey bee immune to a parasite that has been gradually wiping out populations of the vital insect worldwide.

Hickman is on a quest to document hundreds of species of native bees, which are under threat by climate change and habitat loss, some of it caused by the more recognizable and agriculturally valued ...