Honey bees can normally keep their hives perfectly climate-controlled, but extreme heat can overwhelm their defenses. During ...

But, not so for bumblebees, where the queen is larger but otherwise physically indistinguishable from her workers. In a study ...

Although honey bees have the ability to regulate hive temperatures, new research published in Ecological and Evolutionary ...

Bees raising their young in the cavities of fossilized bones: this is precisely the unexpected scene discovered by ...

Deep inside a Caribbean cave, paleontologists have uncovered a scene that reads like gothic natural history: tiny bees once ...

Portland-born Caitlin Gaul and Amanda Simard first opened Birds & Bees Nursery back in 2012 — turning a high school ...

When Aécio Luiz was younger, finding wild beehives was routine in his rural Afro-Brazilian community of Córrego Narciso. A ...

Bees that once hovered around flowers and wasps that appeared at picnic tables almost vanish overnight. The inevitable ...

(CNN) — Contrary to popular depictions of bee nests as large, intricate hives that hang from trees, the majority of bee species — about 90% — are actually solitary and build their nests in the ground ...

Bumble bees respond to physical disturbance of their nest with a sequence of defensive behaviors that lasts up to 10 minutes, according to a study by Sajedeh Sarlak at the University of Konstanz, ...

Find the bee hives in Blue Gate's Olive Grove for Celeste. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I guess most bees were wiped out by ...

Bumble bees battling invasive Argentine ants may win individual fights but ultimately lose valuable foraging time, putting pressure on colonies already strained by habitat loss, disease, and ...