Commercial beekeepers have reported losing around 62% of their colonies over the winter, far higher than the usual honey bee ...

Honeybee populations are again declining, threatening crops. But the honeybee is not the only bee that can work in the fields ...

Bees do not create honey ... In a single collecting trip, a worker will visit between 50 and 100 flowers. She will return to the hive carrying over half her weight in pollen and nectar.

Iridescent sweat bees, hairy-faced mining bees, tiny Perdita minima the size of a gnat. Thanks to swarms of apiary enthusiasts, native species are finally getting the buzz they deserve ...

But Russian bees are more resistant to it, and backyard beekeepers have had success with them. The problem, says Tarpy, is that Russian honeybees don’t make as much honey as their Italian ...

The exact cause of the large number of bee colony losses is still being explored, though beekeepers have their theories. Val Nichols, who keeps about 100 hives around Greene County and has been a ...

Bees are under threat. Present species extinction rates are 100 to 1,000 times higher than normal due to human impacts. Close to 35 percent of invertebrate pollinators, particularly bees and ...

A recent survey found an average loss of 62% of bee colonies among commercial operations in less than a year. Causes and solutions remain unknown.