The endangered native Irish honey bee is physically and genetically distinct from any other species, a newly published study ...

Most of a native bee’s life is spent in the nest, transforming from egg to adult, usually overwintering and pupating in the spring as an adult. They like to find a large patch of the same blooming ...

Prologue The twentieth century gave birth to honeybee neurotoxins – organophosphate, carbamate and neonicotinoid pesticides.

Most researchers believe the honeybee originated in Africa. The first European colonists introduced Apis mellifera, the common honeybee, to the Americas. Native Americans referred to the bees as ...

Picture it: the distant future. Mankind is but a memory on the face of the Earth. In the vacuum they've left behind, the ...

This story appears in the May 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Brother Adam must have known he had become a beekeeper at an unlucky time. It was 1915, and he was a 16-year-old novice at ...

The new ordinance will limit beekeepers to the apris mellifera species honey bee, which are less aggressive than a wasp. “They’re so calm that I work without having a beekeeping suit on ...

Jessica Romer took this photo at the Denver Botanic Gardens, and made it available through Wikimedia Commons. 3. Black Sage (Salvia mellifera) This shrub, an important food source for bees, ...

More information: Sarah Manzer et al, The neonicotinoid acetamiprid reduces larval and adult survival in honeybees (Apis ...

Cataloging Idaho bees will benefit crops and the ecosystem, according to researchers who are recruiting and training ...

Communication is one of the fundamental bases for interaction between living beings, present not only among human beings, but ...

they can be made light enough to be carried by medium-sized insects such as honey bees (Apis mellifera) without any obvious effects on behaviour. Their main limitation is that the returned signal ...