Honey bees are able to carefully manage the temperature inside their hives, but new research shows that extreme summer heat ...

Contrary to the behavior of certain other insects, bees don’t actually fly once it’s dark, according to this trending ...

Honey bees are incredibly efficient, often building their intricate hives in the most unexpected and hidden locations, far from human view. These massive colonies can thrive unnoticed within the ...

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 ...

There are roughly 100 million managed western honey bee (Apis mellifera) colonies in hives worldwide, with about half in Europe, Africa and western Asia, where the species is native, and the rest in ...

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 ...

In this video, we demonstrate how to collect honey from Australian native bees using a honey super. How to remove a honey ...

Lauren Arcuri is a writer and an experienced small farmer based in rural Vermont. If you've determined that you definitely need to requeen, read on. Buy a New Queen The first step in requeening your ...

Honey bees are under extreme pressure. Beekeepers in the US have been losing and then replacing an average of 40% of their honey bee colonies every year since 2010, a rate that is probably ...

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 ...

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 ...