Honey bees are highly social creatures that live in large family groups. Each group or colony is well-organized, with three types of adult bees: a queen, worker bees, and drones. Worker bees are all ...

The late-summer bloom of heather in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland coats the range in lovely purple flowers. Beekeepers ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA/CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - A honeybee hive was removed from the walls of a home. Honey bees became quite a nuisance for a homeowner in Pittsburgh, who had thousands of bees living in ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. With anywhere from around 20,000 to 80,000 residents, depending on the season, honey bee colonies are busy places. One queen bee commands a ...

When you think “bee,” you likely picture one species that lives all over the world: the honey bee. And honey bees have queens, a female who lays essentially all of the eggs for the colony. But most ...

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 ...

William Robson said varroa mites can shorten the lives of queen bees to just 18 months A beekeeper has said it is more difficult to keep his hives alive because of the growing threat of deadly ...

Continuing their efforts to help endangered animals, Zoo Knoxville is turning their attention to honey bees and is taking steps to educate zoo visitors about their importance. “We had always really ...

Individually coded honey bee workers and queen interact inside monitored colony. Credit: Adam G. Dolezal The coronavirus epidemic has certainly caused many humans to change behavior, like increasing ...

Honey bees are twice as likely to let in a trespassing insect from another hive if that insect is infected with a deadly virus, according to new research. Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV) is a ...