While testing how well commercial bumblebees pollinate early spring crops, researchers made a surprising discovery: dead wild bumblebee queens in the hives, an average of 10 per nest box. While ...

Honey bees may soon have refuges — most people call them hives — in Hamilton’s zoning districts, if legislation endorsed recently by the city’s Ordinance Review Commission is approved. Bee keepers ...

But just like last year, honey bees are in short supply. Much of the nation’s bee colonies, about 60%, have been killed by ...

Monitoring honey bee hives by hand is passé. The buzz these days is about high-tech sensors inside hives. They help commercial beekeepers keep colonies healthy and allow bees to keep doing their jobs ...

When honey bees find a good source of food, they return to their hive and perform a waggle dance. It consists of a series of movements that communicate the direction and distance to nectar, pollen or ...