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

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

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 ...

Honey bees can normally keep their hives perfectly climate-controlled, but extreme heat can overwhelm their defenses. During a scorching Arizona summer, researchers found that high temperatures caused ...

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 ...

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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – You can now see just how busy those bees are in a new exhibit at the John Ball Zoo. The Grand Rapids zoo now has an observation honey bee hive available for visitors to safely ...

MCKINNEY, Texas (CBSDFW) - The honey is flowing for the first time at six thriving beehives housing about 150,000 of the insects on land west of Medical City McKinney. The hospital started cultivating ...

NATURAL BRIDGE, Va. (WDBJ) - Natural Bridge State Park has become a little sweeter lately. The park has long had beehives to help educate visitors about pollinators, and now they’ve decided to do ...